Sentences with phrase «vote referendum defeat»

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He left the Conservatives in 2011 a week before the EU referendum vote saw David Cameron defeated, and makes a habit of waving his membership card at bewildered voters.

Shortly before 23:00 BST Mr Davidson received vocal criticism after pointing out that the SNP's proposals were not always accepted — as was the case with his support for the «yes» campaign in the defeated alternative vote referendum.

In the wake of an appellate court decision, Spa City's charter change advocates are once again trying to get their hands on electronic images of ballots cast in November's charter referendum that was defeated by a narrow 10 - vote margin.

The referendum result wasn't a defeat for the yes campaign or a victory for the no campaign, it was the rejection of alternative vote.

The Liberal Democrats lost the referendum on the alternative vote electoral system and proposals for House of Lords reform were defeated in the House of Commons.

Older people are more likely to vote, hence the defeat of the referendum.

Labour insists that it will vote for a post-legislative referendum at some point in the debates, forming another possible point of Labour alliance with dissenting Tory MPs to defeat the government.

With nearly 2.4 million votes cast, Issue 2, the up - or - down ballot referendum deciding SB 5's fate, was headed for a whopping defeat, 61 percent to 39 percent.

Earlier, a Lib Dem amendment calling for a second referendum on the terms of exit was comfortably defeated by 336 votes to 131.

Alan Johnson, who led the defeated Labour In For Britain campaign in the EU referendum, accused Mr Corbyn and his office of sabotaging their attempts to secure a Remain vote.

The division, which brought to a head weeks of mounting tension over the Conservatives» Europe policy, saw the government defeat John Baron's amendment regretting the absence of an EU referendum bill from the coalition's legislative agenda by 277 votes to 130.

In the event of a defeat Farage, who maintains Britain will vote to quit the EU, would exploit claims the referendum was unfair after the Government dubiously spent # 9m on a leaflet to every home.

The announcement will be seen by some as a personal blow to the authority of Clegg, who has already seen the party's cherished hopes of voting reform defeated in last year's referendum, while he has asked his MPs to vote for bills deeply unpopular with Lib Dem supporters, including higher university tuition fees and the NHS shakeup.

The former Liberal Democrat leader launched a stinging rebuke of the prime minister, as the referendum on the alternative vote (AV) is expected to result in a defeat for voting reform.

Defeated Scottish first minister Alex Salmond said he only lost the fiercely - contested referendum because of last week's «vow» by David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg promising a drastic shift in money - raising powers to Scotland in the event of a «No» vote.

The result was that they lost their distinctive identity and, in May, were punished with two crushing defeats - in the referendum on the Alternative Vote and the local elections in England.

However, in the wake of his defeat in the referendum on the voting system, the Lib Dem leader is anxious to avoid seeming obsessed with constitutional matters at a time of deep spending cuts.

Fresh from their resounding success in defeating AV, many Conservative MPs have started talking to Labour backbenchers who also voted No in the referendum trying to form a new alliance to defeat the proposals to reform the House of Lords, announced by Nick Clegg yesterday.

«It is clear his behaviour last night in whipping up a rally of largely non-Labour members and his refusal to accept any blame for the referendum defeat turned off a number of colleagues from the left who were considering abstaining or voting for him,» said the politician, who also argued that there was deep anger about the perception that Corbyn had not tried hard enough to mobilise Labour voters during the referendum campaign.

This new hope hinges on lessons learned from the past, especially one that stems from the referendum defeat: voters tend to be more inclined to vote in favour of something they are already familiar with.

A Liberal Democrat amendment to hold a referendum earlier and on a different voting system - the single transferable vote - was defeated by 476 votes to 69.

In California, Michigan, and Nevada, voters defeated initiatives that would have limited tax levels and prohibited state lawmakers from raising taxes without either a majority legislative vote or a public referendum.

If Brexit faces a resounding defeat then the issue will go away for a while, but if the vote wins or loses narrowly — as polls suggest may happen — then it could lead to a referendum somewhere else in the EU.

Mindy has battled against the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) on the state referendum front serving as the campaign manager for The Alliance for Truth Campaign Committee which was at the forefront of the hard fought campaign opposing the HSUS - driven «Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act» (Proposition B) in the Missouri 2010 election and recently helped defeat the HSUS sponsored «Your Vote Counts» referendum promoting direct democracy.