Sentences with phrase «than liberal election»

Unfortunately, by then, most budget decisions had already been made and the chances that the Committee's recommendations (other than Liberal election promises) would have any impact on the Budget were virtually non-existent.

Not exact matches

Former Liberal Party WA president David Honey's convincing by - election victory in the blue ribbon seat of Cottesloe was no accident; the strong Liberal showing was more than a year in the planning.

Following the 2015 election, the Liberal government abandoned pledges to run annual deficits of no more than $ 10 billion and to balance the books in four years.

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

He spent more than $ 60 million to win election in 2000 to the United States Senate from New Jersey on a liberal platform.

According to the Liberal's election platform, seniors face higher inflation than the general Canadian population and by non-senior families.

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

On the final Sunday of the federal election campaign, Mr. Trudeau spoke to an energetic crowd of more than 2,000 supporters in the Edmonton - Mill Woods riding, home of now elected Liberal MP Amarjeet Sohi.

«She is living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is taking the money her dad pays to support her, and using it to pay for their misguided priorities, like spending more than a million dollars hiring failed B.C. Liberal candidates and giving insiders cushy appointments after the last election.»

She was elected to City Council less than a year after the Liberal Party's rout in the 2001 provincial election, of which she was a surprising casualty.

Reagan ran a more disciplined campaign than his more liberal rivals (both in the GOP primary and the general election), and while he kept faith with his conservative base, he never seemed to be speaking only to his pre-existing conservative supporters.

Regular elections and increasingly free markets make India appear to be a more convincing exemplar of economic globalization than China, which has adopted capitalism without embracing liberal democracy.

It carries such a strong invocation of the «liberal metropolitan elite» character - type that the phrase was deliberately employed during the last election by none other than David Cameron with his jibe about «the same old condescending, bossy, interfering, we - know - best attitude of the Hampstead socialist down the ages».

Most Liberal Democrat activists want the party to support Labour rather than the Conservatives in government after the next general election, a poll has found.

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.

Because of the issues raised by David Davis in the by - election, many parties other than the Conservatives, such as Labour, Liberal Democrats, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and British National Party (BNP) chose not to stand.

But the resistance of backbenchers to development on their patches, the ambiguity of the Liberal Democrats (some of whom are pushing More Garden Cities Now), the lateness of part of the Treasury push and the long timetable for building houses conspire against the Chancellor getting big housing growth in the little - more - than - two - year - period between now and the general election.

At the 2010 election Liberal Democrat MPs, members and voters were all more social liberal than economic liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of Liberal Democrat MPs, members and voters were all more social liberal than economic liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of liberal than economic liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of centre.

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

Liberal Democrats after the election: a left of centre party which should be able to work more easily with Labour than the Conservatives

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

«More current Liberal Democrat supporters — those who would still vote for the party now — believe the party has changed for the worse since the 2010 election (36 per cent) than think it has got better (20 per cent), according to a YouGov survey..

If we look at the 2010 general election results, we can see that 116 MPs (from 649 excluding the speaker) got a higher vote share than the average Conservative leader, versus 48 for the Labour leader and 277 for the Liberal Democrat leader.

Well, based on the assumption that a vote is cast in anticipation that the recipient of the vote is going to win, it seems to me that a vote cast for David Cameron or whoever is the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the election is far more likely to see a winner than any vote for the Liberal Democrats will do.

The Liberal Democrats are better at fighting by - elections than other two main parties.

In his spring conference speech, Nick Clegg argued that it was this activism that would mean that at the General Election the Liberal Democrats would «defy the odds and win again this May» and «do so much better than anyone thinks».

Their share of the vote was higher than any post-war election except 1983 when the Liberal - SDP Alliance had 27.6 %.

This has continued since the election as the Liberals have sacrificed many of the manifesto pledges that they used to pose themselves to the left of the Labour Party, such as the scrapping of Trident, proportional representation, an amnesty for illegal immigrants and opposition to nuclear power — the latter on which it will now abstain in any parliamentary votes rather than oppose it as its manifesto had stated.

In essence, Blair is telling big business that a sanitised Labour Party moving away from the unions and into alliance with the Liberal Democrats is a safer bet than a Tory Party which may not be able to win another general election.

According to an IFS report before the 2010 general election, [109] the Conservatives needed to find more money from cuts beyond what they had outlined than any other major party, although the report was also critical of Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

Conversely, as the most pro-European major party, the Liberal Democrats have typically done much worse in European than general elections or local elections where they do best.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

A YouGov poll showing the Green Party has more support than the Liberal Democrats raises yet more questions as to why the party is being excluded from a planned series of debates ahead of next year's election...

[31] Prominent Chrétien adviser Eddie Goldenberg believed that the «No» campaign at some points was more focused on the future election position of the Quebec Liberals rather than the referendum itself.

At the last election only two in three votes cast across the UK as a whole were expressions of support for one of the two largest parties, fewer than at any time since 1922 (the year that Labour first displaced the Liberals as Britain's principal party of the left).

In the 2017 election, the Conservative manifesto will be more heavily scrutinised than the Labour or Liberal Democrat manifestos, since the Conservatives are expected to win a parliamentary majority on the basis of the published polls.

Notably, he received fewer votes in this latest leadership contest than his rival, Chris Huhne, polled in the last Liberal Democrat election in March 2006.

A Liberal Democrat defeat, in a seat where they trailed Labour by only 103 votes last May, would inevitably increase the pressure on Mr Clegg from the doubters in his party, which is used to winning by - elections rather than losing them.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

Liberal Democrat John Birch won the by - election after his supposed Labour rival, Alex Mockridge, had to run as an independent because she has been a member of the party for less than a year.

The Liberal Democrats spent more than # 1.5 m, # 400,000 more than in the last European election, but managed to get just one MEP elected and lost 11 seats.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

This year, Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats face a much more uncertain environment than in previous elections.

Across the 34 Metropolitan boroughs up for election, the Liberal Democrats secured 16 fewer seats than at the height of the party's local collapse four years previously.

As a result, there are not many new chairs following the elections (Rachel Reeves and Lilian Greenwood for Labour; Rob Halfon, Tom Tugendhat, Nicky Morgan and Andrew Murrison for the Conservatives; and Norman Lamb for the Liberal Democrats), although the vast majority (22 out of 28) have been in post for no more than 2 years.

It has been a good year electorally for UKIP, since it is the first party other than Labour and the Conservatives to come first in a national election — in this case for the European Parliament — since the Liberal landslide of 1906.

Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.

It's therefore very possible that UKIP could poll more votes than the Liberal Democrats in the 2015 election but win no seats, with the beleagured Lib Dems retaining more than half of their current incumbents.

In the 2010 General Election Labour got 8,609,527 votes — far more than the Liberal Democrats who share power with the Tories.

Nearly one in five of those «certain to vote» said they would back a party other than the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats or Labour at the next general election.