Sentences with phrase «vote in the constituency»

They will need to get a majority of votes in their constituencies.

Why do people still turn out in numbers to vote in constituencies where the result is not in real question?

The more advertising the monitors noticed, the fewer people voted in that constituency (see graph).

Remember, there are no truly safe seats: no candidate in the last election got more than half of all the potential votes in their constituency.

Under the current system, many MPs are elected on a minority of the overall vote in their constituency.

All citizens of Solomon Islands who are at least 18 years of age are entitled to vote in the constituency in which they are ordinarily resident.

Correlation between the estimated Remain vote in a constituency and the proportion of petitioners from such constituencies is extremely high (r = 0.93).

Plaintiff again states that in order to fully participate in this year's general elections, she must find and deposit with the 1st Defendant an amount of GHC2, 800,000.00 of which fees and or deposit of fees would be confiscated to the State should Plaintiff failed to secure at least 25 % of the presidential votes and 12.5 % votes in each constituency parliamentary votes in the general elections.

He has a large personal vote in his constituency, and I've met people from other, neighbouring constituencies who have been helped by him when their own MP didn't want to know.

In the UK, voters vote in constituencies and votes are then translated into seats on the basis of a first - past - the - post system.

Voters put a cross on a ballot paper next to their favoured candidate and the candidate with the most votes in the constituency wins.

Respect candidates received 33,269 votes, which amounted to 6.8 % of the total vote in the constituencies where they stood and 0.1 % of the total UK vote.

Do they go after the Ukip votes in which they make it even harder to win the centrist votes in constituencies like this?»

One of the officers who could not cast his ballot at the polling station told Citi News» Jonas Nyabor that he had been informed by colleagues he could cast his ballot within the constituency since he works within the constituency although he originally votes in another constituency.

In North East Fife the SNP beat the Lib Dems by just two votes, but under the «winner takes all» system all the Lib Dem votes in the constituency were wasted ones.

O'Mara owes his postition largely to his predecessor as Labour candidate (and the circumstances of the coalition) having already successfully mobilised what is a decent sized natural Labour vote in this constituency, and a bit of tactical unwind in the form of an increased Conservative vote.

The person who gets the largest number of votes in each constituency (or ward) becomes the MP (or councillor).

I thought the disproportionately high Remain vote in this constituency was partly due to the fact that the two relatively popular Tory incumbents in the 2 seats — Heidi Allen and Lucy Frazer — had both endorsed Remain although this result challenges both of those notions

He was a man who liked to be liked, and succeeded at it, but although he had a sizeable personal vote in his constituency, he failed sufficiently to contain the radical Militant left in Accrington, which weakened him politically.

When you vote in your constituency, how many choices do you have?

The SNP won 63 of the 129 seats and took 44 per cent of the vote in the constituency seats and regions, which is a slight dip in SNP support and it lost its overall majority of seats.

[37] The party received 0.9 % of the vote on the regional list, and between 2.2 % and 2.7 % of the vote in the constituencies and failed to have any members elected.

In the 2015 general election they won 0.2 % of the vote in the constituency of Monmouth, while Plaid Cymru achieved 3.9 % of the vote.

The single vote was not cast by Taylor - Dawson, as she was not registered to vote in that constituency.

All in all, 332 MPs were elected on less than half the votes in their constituency.

He noted that if the Party fails to act on the petition brought before it, not only will they go to court but the Party is likely to lose both the Presidential and Parliamentary votes in the constituency.

The Lib Dems also pointed out that every ward in Manchester Gorton constituency has elected a Lib Dem councillor in the last 11 years and that they secured 33 % of the vote in the constituency in 2010.

Even if you require people to show some ID, you don't want them to be able to vote in several places, you need to know exactly how many people could vote in a constituency, check they are eligible to vote in that constituency, etc..

He won 52 % of the vote in his constituency in the general election and was a vocal opponent of the coalition's tripling of tuition fees.

This post explores the strategy behind leader visits, the effect they have on a party's vote in those constituencies, and the importance of leaders visiting seats not currently held by their party.

GMB general secretary Paul Kenny pointed out that Conservatives failed to secure 40 % support of those who voted in the 2010 general election, while only 15 Tory MPs had the backing of 40 % of those entitled to vote in their constituencies.

He won 52 % of the vote in his constituency on Thursday and famously opposed the coalition's tripling of tuition fees.

I will wait for few days and approach them if I don't hear anything from them and ask them to join us to campaign and make sure that we increase our votes in the constituency.

He won 52 % of the vote in his constituency in the general election and was a vocal opponent of the coalition's tripling of tuition fees, one of the policies that most damaged the Lib Dems.

According to him, some security personnel who are expected to vote in his constituency have strangely...

The party won such small shares of the votes in some constituencies that they failed to register the minimum 5 % threshold needed to hold onto theior # 500 deposit.

The Voter Power Index uses past electoral data to express how likely a vote in that constituency is likely to actually affect the outcome.

Although a classic «safe» Labour seat, UKIP has steadily made inroads into Labour's share of the vote in the constituency in recent elections, coming second to Harpham in last year's general election with nearly nine thousand votes.

In the said letter which was addressed to the NPP's Director of Elections, Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah, the PNC candidate pledged to support the NPP in the Builsa South constituency to increase its vote in the constituency so that the NPP would also in return help him retain his seat.

SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond expressed disappointment, but said the party had achieved its best share of the vote in the constituency for 35 years.

47 Green Party candidates polled less than 1 % of the vote in their constituency.