Sentences with phrase «vote in any seat at»

Graham — The share of the vote in these seats at the last election would have been CON 38.1 %, LAB 30.8 %, LDEM 24.5 %, Others 6.6 %.

Not exact matches

As he did last week, Commissioner David Hays provided the swing vote at a jammed meeting at the courthouse in Georgetown, the county seat.

This represented a significant improvement from the last election in 2004, where the Party (led at the time by Premier Ralph Klein) won 62 seats and 47 percent of the vote.

But even so, PAN («National Action Party») gets at most 14 percent of regional votes, and its token seats in the legislature serve more to prove the ruling party operates a democracy.

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This means that the British government - whoever they may be at the time - will always be happy with the fact that Sinn Féin don't take their seats - this time around, that's 7 opposing votes they don't have to worry about in parliament.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

Owusu Amankwah is touted as the key man to increase the party's presidential votes from 37, 853, representing 71.41 per cent in 2012, to at least 40,000 in the next elections according to the party's estimation, and maintain the party's seat in Parliament.

She challenged analysis that talked up Labour success at the election pointing out that the Conservatives piled on voters in many northern seats that had voted Leave, among older voters and among the working class.

The 72 - year - old Akufo - Addo beat President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over one million votes to win the presidency at the third attempt while his party, the NPP snatched almost 50 of the NDC's seats to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the elections.

As voting was underway last week, Felder declared he would remain with Republicans in the Senate at least through the end of the legislative session in June, giving the GOP the needed 32nd member in the 63 - seat Senate.

Tribal loyalties shored up many votes, but these were at their weakest in the affluent Saddleworth half of the seat.

The SNP managed to win nearly all the seats in Scotland with just under half the votes because the votes against them were spread out between several parties, at the local as well as the national level.

But even with the Greek system which gives an extra 50 seats in the 300 seat parliament to the party with the largest share of the vote, it is not at all certain that the two big old parties will have a majority.

That is exactly the issue at hand with our democracy today: politics concentrates power to a handful of voters in wealthier swing seats, while throwing 22m votes in the electoral scrapheap.

In each seat we spoke to two types of people: those who voted no to Scottish independence in 2014, Labour or Liberal Democrat in 2015, and who were undecided what to do this time round; and those who voted SNP at the last general election and to leave the EU in last year's referenduIn each seat we spoke to two types of people: those who voted no to Scottish independence in 2014, Labour or Liberal Democrat in 2015, and who were undecided what to do this time round; and those who voted SNP at the last general election and to leave the EU in last year's referenduin 2014, Labour or Liberal Democrat in 2015, and who were undecided what to do this time round; and those who voted SNP at the last general election and to leave the EU in last year's referenduin 2015, and who were undecided what to do this time round; and those who voted SNP at the last general election and to leave the EU in last year's referenduin last year's referendum.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

If he's unlucky, he enjoys a brief honeymoon or else no honeymoon at all, and then — after trying but failing to keep his parliamentary party in order — faces a vote of no - confidence triggered by the kamikaze squadron seated on the benches behind him.

Evidently, Blunkett thinks there is nothing at all perculiar about a voting system in which the LibDems attract 23 % of the votes cast and get only 8 % of the seats in Parliament.

Assuming Mr Clegg accepts the convention that, until and unless our voting system is changed, what matters is seats, then he is saying if Labour remains the largest party it should have a shot at staying in office.

He added: «Obviously, I am disappointed at any places where we lost a bit of ground, but if you look at the overall picture, Labour gained a lot of seats across the whole country; we gained a lot of votes in places we never had those votes before.»

Between 2010 and 2015, under Miliband, Labour increased its vote share in Labour - held seats at by - elections by 16.4 % (Manchester Central), 14.6 % (Middlesbrough), 13.5 % (Barnsley Central), 12.2 % (Leicester South), 11.2 % (Wythenshawe), 10.8 % (Feltham & Heston), and 10.2 % (Oldham East).

In 2014 he won a seat in the election of the Buffalo School Board as an At Large member and had the highest vote total of all candidateIn 2014 he won a seat in the election of the Buffalo School Board as an At Large member and had the highest vote total of all candidatein the election of the Buffalo School Board as an At Large member and had the highest vote total of all candidates.

Mr. Rangel's health woes have caused him to miss 103 votes in Congress and have kept him from the campaign trail as four challengers are taking aim at his seat.

Furthermore, the anti-Labour votes (quite a lot of people at the moment) in many seats would not be split between Liberal Democrats and Conservatives, but basically focussed on Conservative.

Lackawanna lawmakers by a unanimous vote returned Abdulsalam Noman to the seat he vacated at the end of 2017 after a series of court challenges that eventually ousted Mohamed Albanna from the First Ward seat he had won in the November election.

There are currently just two circuses that continue to use wild animals in England and reports have suggested that at least one of those businesses is struggling to fill seats as people vote with their feet and stay away.

As Farron pointed out to me, the party has never done well when the British people get to vote on Europe: «Even in 2009,» (when the party was twice as popular as it is today) «we only won in four of out of the 63 seats we then held at Westminster in the Euros.»

It's often said in UK politics that the Conservatives usually require a 7 percent lead in the popular vote to gain an overall majority of seats in the House of Commons; but the Labour party can get a majority with practically no lead at all (indeed it's not inconceivable that the Conservatives could have a small plurality of votes and Labour still have a majority of seats).

My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.

Four Assembly members are vying for seats in the NYC Council, but they haven't had great track records showing up for votes at their current gigs, attendance records show.

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

They took a smaller share of the vote than at the previous election, but they managed to more than double their representation in parliament, [31] winning 46 seats, [28] through tactical voting and concentrating resources in winnable seats.

We polled a thousand votes more than Labour in the recent Euro elections in the South West seat and are campaigning hard to go one better at the forthcoming Westminster election.

I decided to look primarily at Labour seats — including some with colossal majorities — in areas which voted yes to independence, or where the result was very close (more...)

At their first election in 1992 (which ended in a fourth successive Conservative win), they won 17.8 % of the vote and twenty seats.

Research in marginal seats by Politics Home in August 2008 and September 2009, for example, found a significant boost for the Lib Dems in the follow - up question «And thinking specifically about your own constituency and the candidates who are likely to stand there which party's candidate do you think you will vote for in your own constituency at the next general election?»

Meanwhile, although the Greens are running at much the same share of the vote as the Liberal Democrats, they will do well to pick up a second seat to add to the first they won in 2010.

I showed in step 3 that the Conservatives can expect to gain seats even if the national CON - LAB lead remains unchanged at 6.5 % due to the way the votes are being redistributed unevenly by region.

There are mixed reports as to whether Fossella really is interested in running during this cycle — perhaps the GOP's best shot at winning back the seat from Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon, who is on the outs with organized labor and the WFP for his «no» vote on health care reform — or is laying the groundwork for a run two years from now.

Firstly, in Conservative - vs - Labour marginals the Conservative vote is largely unchanged from the general election, but the Liberal Democrat vote has dropped to the benefit of Labour, this means on a uniform swing Labour would gain about 28 seats from the Conservatives (though these would be seats that the Conservatives gained at the last election, so in practice the Tories would be helped by the incumbency bonus of the new MPs).

Republicans hold a thin 33 - seat majority in the 63 - seat chamber, and it was unclear if the conference had the 32 votes necessary to pass the legislation before the debate began at 9 p.m.

There was evidence of tactical voting in some seats - Labour held threatened London seats Islington South and Westminster North by increasing its share of the vote at the expense of the Liberal Democrats.

But in those seats where it came second in the by - election (as UKIP has done in Eastleigh), it went on to lose almost half its vote share at the next general election.

But if they're wise enough to vote Liberal Democrat at the next local elections in Hull, or for the Conservatives in any seat where we are well - placed to defeat Labour, then they will have a council that is fulfilling its statutory duty.

The British National Party, who won 12 seats on the council in 2006, all of which they lost in 2010, declined even further at this election, only standing candidates in three wards and picking up a total of 1,137 votes, placing them sixth overall.

His approach will be «exactly the same» as this year — that the party with the most votes and seats in a hung parliament should have the first crack at forming a government.

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?

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

On average, in those seats that the party won in by - elections, it went on to hold on to more than four - fifths of its vote share at the following general election.