Sentences with phrase «vote at the general election»

I'd like to see non partisan elections in New York State or instant run - off voting at the general election.

To receive backing from such a highly respected campaigner, who has been so prominent in the battle against fracking and broader issues of climate change, is a real boom to the party as we look to translate the «Green surge» into votes at the general election in May.

Mr Clegg is «confident» the Coalition will run its full five - year course and that the Yes campaign will win the referendum due next May on bringing in the alternative vote at general elections.

Jeremy Corbyn Would Win More Votes At A General Election Than Other Labour Leadership Hopefuls, New Poll Finds 14 August 2015

A report published by the Commission today (3 March) suggests that several million people will not be able to vote at the general election because they are not registered, that only a minority of the 17 - 24 age group are registered, and that large numbers of black and ethnic minority people will also be without a vote.

Ukip secured more than four million votes at the general election yet returned only one MP to parliament in Douglas Carswell.

With 1.1 m votes at the general election, more than 150 councillors, two seats on the London assembly and the Green candidate coming third in the London mayor elections, the Greens think this is unfair.

Just a thought — to reduce the disconnect between the Labour Party and the voters, and to maximise the Labour vote at general elections, would it not be wise to match candidates to constituencies in the selection process, wherever possible?

Ukip is anxious to maintain the status as an «insurgency» that helped it gain four million votes at the general election.

Last year a Conservative mayor was elected on North Tyneside and the Tories were the only party to increase their share of the vote at the general election.

In the case of this poll therefore, what we don't know is how people would have answered a question saying how would you vote at a general election if Gordon Brown were still leader — given his current popularity, mentioning his name in the question may have produced worse results.

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

With UKIP commanding four million votes at the general election, the press stuffed with xenophobic bullshit as per, and the woman who would lead the Tories pitching herself as Nigel Farage's successor, a little package shedding light on a tiny and utterly marginal -LSB-...]

If Labour were to win a similar share of the vote at a general election, they could expect a majority even larger than Blair's landslides in 1997 and 2001.

Despite gaining 13 % of the vote at the general election, with nearly four million people casting a ballot for the party, they only managed to return one MP, Douglas Carswell, with Mark Reckless losing his seat.

Scotland provides the starkest examples — a place where Labour is reduced to one MP for 24 % of the votes at the general elections but secures 24 seats in the Scottish Parliament on 23 % of votes.

800,000 people heard that message and changed their votes at the General Election.

Peckham Platform, London, until 7 May 2015 The Cass Bank Gallery, Aldgate East, London, until 7 May 2015 Soon billboards across the country will be plastered with artworks encouraging us to vote at the General Election.