Sentences with phrase «very narrow vote»

It was decided - after a very narrow vote and a quite passionate debate - that there should be a special section on Mary in the document on the Church, rather than dedicating a document to her alone.

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Continuity Remain turns out to have been a very narrow band of opinion that gave up on the Lib Dems after their terrible start to the election campaign - and the Brexit - voting southwest had no interest in backing the party that once dominated the region.

Despite making some gains compared to the previous general election, former party leader Nick Clegg lost Sheffield Hallam to Jared O'Mara of the Labour Party, and Zac Goldsmith of the Conservatives regained Richmond Park from Sarah Olney with a very narrow majority of 45 votes.

Speaking to the Western Mail before the hustings - which are not open to the media - Mr Cameron insisted that the Welsh assembly was here to stay, despite being established with only a very narrow referendum vote in 1997.

ICM asked voters how settled they were in their current voting intention to establish how far voters will drift back towards their traditional affiliations and found a narrow majority of 51 % saying they were now «very certain» that their mind was made up.

At the very least they provide a means for voters to vote their conscience on narrow issues.

In October 1974 Labour won a narrow majority, there was record inflation, high unemployment, massive Conservative Local Election & By Election victories followed by the Winter of Discontent and yet while Labour lost, their total vote was very similar to that of the 1974 General Elections and it was more down to increased turnout for the Conservatives and collapse of the Liberals.

While there are still 300,000 votes to be counted, she has a narrow lead which is making many on both sides of the party line very upset with those in our state who perpetually vote along the party line.