Sentences with phrase «vote share rises»

Following the 2017 general election, UKIP's vote share plummeted by 15.6 % seeing both Conservative and Labour vote shares rise significantly by 9 %.

The Conservatives saw their vote share rise by 12 percentage points but failed to win any seats.

Not exact matches

Equally there is a reasonable argument that teh rise of UKIP in terms of vote share was a major factor in precipitating this whole situation in the first place.

Labour, despite a slight rise in its share of the vote, returned with fewer councillors.

2) The rise of UKIP at the 2013 local elections dramatically alters the predicted UKIP vote share, lowers both the Conservative and Labour vote shares but also increases the margin of error around the predictions.

The Tories didn't increase their count of councillors here last week, but they've made up huge ground on vote share, turning a 12.5 % gap into a 1.5 % gap by hoovering up Ukip votes, despite Labour's vote share also rising.

The Conservative candidate, Anne McIntosh, took the seat, although voters gave Nick Clegg's party a five - point rise in its share of the vote.

They may have finished 3,558 votes behind Labour (having been just 103 behind at the general election) but their share of the vote rose to 31.9 per cent.

12:11 - Ukip are seeing a substantial rise in their share of the vote, but precious little in terms of concrete gain.

They've only gained one despite an average 4 - 5 % rise in their share of the vote.

A falling share of the vote for the main parties means a rising chance of coalitions.

Finally, despite the important effects of the substantial rise of UKIP on the shares of the vote for the two main parties, UKIP are not set to win many seats nor have a disproportionate effect on the competition for seats between the two main parties in their key marginals.

Politicians on all sides deplored the result which saw the BNP's share of the vote rise from the 20 % gained in last year's election to 33.9 %.

Despite losing 6 Parliamentary seats in London in the General Election conducted on the same day, Labour's share of the vote, council seats and control of Councils rose substantially.

Its share of the vote was seven points below its score a year before Neil Kinnock lost the 1992 election, though that was in the era of three - party politics before the rise of Ukip.

The Liberal Democrat share of the vote fell by 14.5 %, the Ukip share rose 24.2 %, the Tories fell 14 % and Labour went up 0.2 %.

In every other by - election in the current parliament in English Labour seats, the party's vote share has risen by around ten percentage points.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage failed to gain the seat of Thanet South, despite his party's share of the vote across the UK rising by 9.5 percentage points.

Worse, today's survey of 96 marginal seats by ICM for the News of the World suggests that the Lib Dems» share of the vote has risen 5 points since January and that most of their progress has been at the expense of the Conservatives.

Most commentators on here and elsewhere were convinced the Tory vote share would have slumped into the teens if you had suggested that it would rise most people would have laughed.

Labour's share of the vote nationally rose by 10 percentage points to 40 %, with strong performances across northern England, London, East Anglia and the south coast.

That's not to say that young voters were not still important in explaining the election result — age was still an important divide on how people voted, young people did still heavily vote for Labour so it is still fair to say Labour managed to enthuse young people more, it's just that the level of turnout among under 25s does not appear to have risen; Labour just took a greater share of support among younger voters.

* Says its share of voting rights in video games company Ubisoft rises to 15.66 percent, with 17.73 percent of the capital

I've made this point before, but I'm constantly reading articles about the rising share of «protest» votes going to «minor parties» in which the set of minor parties excludes the National Party.