Sentences with phrase «term of vote share»

Labour is trailing on both measures in terms of vote share, but would still win most seats, assuming a uniform national swing.

The election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.

Meanwhile Survation stuck to its guns on a final poll showing a 1 - point Tory win in terms of vote share compared to the 2.4 - point actual margin.

Malcolm Harvey, research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, says that Ukip coming third in terms of vote share while only getting next to no seats looks bad when compared with the SNP, who «are going to win half as many votes as Ukip and return 56 seats».

The party secured 12.6 per cent of the vote, making it Britain's third largest party in terms of vote share.

In terms of vote share, election night was a huge success for Ukip — it won 13 % of British voters, comfortably vaulting past the Lib Dems into third place on votes cast.

The UKIP story is especially illuminating as the party came second in 120 constituencies, became the third largest national party in terms of vote share, yet in the end made no electoral gains.

The Conservatives have the edge in terms of vote share, with the Liberal Democrats close behind, and Labour just behind them in third.

Election barometer The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives one point ahead of the Liberal Democrats in terms of vote share, with Labour four points further adrift.

The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives on top in terms of vote share, but Labour leading in terms of projected seats, despite trailing last or joint last in terms of vote share.

This result meant the Party fell to third place in terms of both vote share and number of councillors.

UKIP and the Greens saw their best - ever results in terms of vote share (7 % for the Greens and 5 % for UKIP), but whilst UKIP gained 12 seats, the Greens gained just 2.

The result for the SDP — Liberal Alliance was a disappointment, in that they had hoped to overtake Labour as the second party in the UK in terms of vote share.

The Conservatives came a fairly close second in terms of vote share but won less than half the number of seats that Labour did.

The Green Party contested an election in the district for the first time, putting up a candidate in every ward and coming fourth in terms of vote share.