Sentences with phrase «turnout figures»

In an effort to prove his point, he pointed to low voter turnout figures in primaries in recent years.

In practice, the liberty to vote in any place in the country means turnout figures are not very meaningful anymore except on a national basis.

I arrived at these figures by taking a weighted average of the revised vote shares in each seat, weighted by the revised turnout figures.

A look at the ward by ward turnout figures from this month's local elections, as published by Croydon Council, show that many of the borough's Labour councillors have reasons to be bashful, when it is clear that in some places, 7 in 10 voters couldn't be bothered to exercise their democratic right.

The official turnout figure is in - and it's surprisingly low, at a meagre 42.25 per cent.

Early turnout figures in the council elections in the Anglia region suggest only a third of voters bothered to cast their ballot.

If you're depressed by turnout figures, the fall of the BNP should surely cheer you up.

I'm not disputing that Putin wouldn't win legitimately, or that more people support him than any other candidate, simply that I do not believe turnout figures, and I don't believe legit candidates aren't headed off before the elections.

Sadly, judging by the falling turnout figures, it seems the public in this country might not be too bothered about it.

As today's Tory mayoral contest turnout figures suggest, Goldsmith does not have anything quite like the personal vote or name recognition of his predecessor in London.

Welsh devolution was always a more limited offering than that north of the border, and turnout figures tend to support this analysis.

Parliament had gone down in voters» expectations steadily since before Blair came to power, as a quick glance at turnout figures will tell you.

Just as I've seen some on the right of the party try to use turnout figures in these NEC elections to prove that Jeremy is not that popular (he is) I've seen some on the left try to use this victory to prove it doesn't matter about the disconnect between the leadership and the membership on Brexit.

8.56 am: If you are looking for region - by - region turnout figures, Malcolm Clark has put them up at the make my vote count blog.

But early voting turnout figures in Morse's district, different rules for mail - in ballots and the general unpredictability of turnout in recall elections mean Republicans have a chance to shake things up.

The UK and nations turnout figures update through the night, based on electorates divided by valid votes of all constituencies declared so far.

But this year, Democrat turnout figures are falling off while Republicans are coming out in droves.

For example, it may simply be that monitors in less marginal constituencies (which generally had lower turnout figures) noticed advertising more because they were subjected less to other forms of political campaigning.

When political analysts added up turnout figures from the Nov. 3 elections, they could find only one word to describe a year when a mere 24.5 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls in Erie County: Abysmal.

It was an agonising wait for the turnout figures, and although more people voted than anyone expected, the vast majority of them said No.

It was conducted between Thursday and Friday and over 80 % of Tory members polled told YouGov they had already voted — the actual turnout may well be lower than this since CCO's turnout figures won't take into account situations like members who died (i.e. on CCOs turnout figures they'll count as a member who didn't return a ballot paper, however dead people are very unlikely to fill in YouGov surveys saying they didn't vote) and ballots lost in the post.

The turnout figure marks a rise on that in 2015 of 66.2 % and fits a trend that has seen an increasing proportion of the electorate voting since 2001.

As election officials go through outstanding ballots — such as provisional ballots and those with write - ins — the turnout figures will change.

The turnout figure was being closely watched as a gauge of the legitimacy of the European parliament and elections since fewer voters have voted at every opportunity since 1979 when the EU average was 43 %.