Sentences with phrase «vote at the general election because»

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.

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Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

Liberal Democrats didn't just want Britain to vote for the Alternative Vote because it would have given them more MPs at nearly every general election — although it wovote for the Alternative Vote because it would have given them more MPs at nearly every general election — although it woVote because it would have given them more MPs at nearly every general election — although it would.

It is often argued by the proponents of executive supremacy that a government effectively enjoys a direct democratic mandate because most voters in general elections believe they are voting for a party manifesto and a prime minister at the same time as selecting a constituency MP.

I was the Labour PPC in Orkney and Shetland at the last general election and was speaking to a disabled voter who said to me «I won't be voting, because all politicians do is take things away from me».

And should that party then go on to win a General Election we will leave the EU without any referendum because the electorate will have voted for it at that General Election.

Lamont has said that Labour lost the 2011 Scottish Parliament election because the party lost its direction, [50] and that having failed to recognise the 2007 result as a defeat, it picked up the wrong signals from the 2010 general election that saw a strong Scottish Labour vote at Westminster.

Mr Howson, from Leek, Staffordshire, explained he was a Tory party member but had voted for Ukip at the last general election and said he held Mr Cameron personally responsible for its rise because of «a botched up in - out referendum».

As the General Election approaches, each of us becomes more powerful than at any other time, because the Parliamentary Candidates want our votes.

A group of students at Central High School in Omaha, Neb., will be taking an unusually keen interest in the outcome of next week's general election — and not necessarily because it is one in which they will be casting their first votes for President.