Sentences with phrase «vote split between»

Labour won both seats - with increased majorities - as the UKIP vote split between Labour and the Tories.

Only a sharp vote split between Liberal Harvey Locke and Green Chris Turner ensured a Conservative win.

MP Richards adds that vote splitting between the two Conservative parties was the reason for last year's results; by uniting the parties we will once again see a Conservative majority in Alberta.

IMHO, there tends to be little electoral overlap between the provincial and federal levels, at least in this province, and in fact the vote splits between right, left and centre are quite different with one unified Conservative party (more aligned with Wildrose than with Alberta PC), and a not - quite - as - moribund Liberal party in play.

Many Conservative MPs plan to vote tactically to try to stop Bercow, while, if the Labour vote splits between the two candidates, a rival such as Tory grandee Sir George Young could be boosted.

The top three keep getting stronger and Selma sees some votes split between adapted and original to take a small hit here.

Not exact matches

Remember that if President Trump is elected, Vice President Mike Pence will have a tie - breaking vote in the Senate, which will likely be nearly evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.

And although most Canadians dislike Harper and his approach to politics, their clout in the next election is diminished by the fact that their vote is split between opposition parties.

Recent polls show a three - way split in support between the Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic and Wildrose Parties have generated some interest in Alberta's provincial election campaign but with 24 days left until voting day we can expect a lot to change.

The Christian vote was split between two ideologies, Obama's pro-abortion and gay rights agendas and the pro-life, traditional definition of marriage, unfortunately represented by a Mormon candidate.

I first saw them when Bon Appétit hosted a contest where readers could vote on their favorite Cookiebar cookie and have the recipe revealed, but the Jammers lost (although, I would like to point out to my friends at Bon Appétit that this was not a fair contest since the vote was split between the dark and light Jammers.

Regarding which area should Chelsea focus on strengthening this winter, the votes were quite evenly split between wing - backs and forwards.

Forecasting that the Ukip vote, which stood at 4,154 in 2015, would split between Labour and the Tories, Gill adjusted her strategy, and was aided by the momentum of the national campaigns.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

It split votes between MPs (30 %), party members (30 %) and trade unions and socialist societies (40 %).

The challenge for Labour is that most splitting occurs between ideologically adjacent parties, and because less partisan Labour voters are more likely than Conservatives to split their vote.

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.

Farage last night described Vote Leave, which is backed by several Conservative ministers, as the choice of the Westminster establishment, but insisted the split between the two groups would not affect the final result.

It is expected to be passed, but the Liberal Democrats may end up split three ways between abstainers, rebels and those voting with the government.

«Because splitting the vote between the Monroe County Republican Party and the Monroe County Conservative Party will assure the reelection of Congresswoman Louise Slaughter.

The Oregon Legislature, for instance, is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, and Schaufler would often cross the aisle on key votes.

The UKIP vote, which many had assumed would return to the Conservative party, ended up being split between the Conservative and Labour parties, adding to the mayhem of election night.

The Vote Green Syracuse committee, which splits its funds between Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins and three Common Council candidates, got about $ 1,600 in contributions between Oct. 3 and Oct. 23.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

Owens was re-elected in 2010 when Hoffman ran again, splitting the right - wing vote between himself and Republican - backed Matt Doheny.

In the 1906 election, the LRC won 29 seats — helped by a secret 1903 pact between Ramsay MacDonald and Liberal Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone that aimed to avoid splitting the opposition vote between Labour and Liberal candidates in the interest of removing the Conservatives from office.

[4] The 2017 general election result reveals Scotland as a divided nation, with votes relatively evenly split between Labour, the Conservative and the SNP for the first time since the 1970s.

UKIP may have cost the Conservatives up to 20 seats at the 2010 general election with a split in the eurosceptic vote, leading to talk of a ceasefire, pact or merger between the two parties.

Gipson won election to his first term in the Senate when a vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage by former Republican state Sen. Steve Saland led to Republicans and Conservatives splitting their votes between Saland, R - Poughkeepsie, and Conservative candidate Neil DiCarlo, of Putnam County.

But they will likely split the «reform» vote in the district between themselves and Niou.

As de Blasio spoke, it was still unclear if Clinton or Bernie Sanders had prevailed in the first vote of the primary - Iowa caucus goers split down the middle between the two - with Martin O'Malley garnering a few votes and deciding to suspend his campaign.

The APA voted 8 - 1 in February to split the tract between two classifications: motor - free Wilderness and the less - restrictive Wild Forest.

Hypothethical example: If the non-Conservative vote is split between Labour, Lib. - Dem., and Greens with 24 % each, a Conservative candidate could win with only 28 % of the vote despite 72 % preferring a non-Conservative candidate.

How much will voters find themselves splitting their votes between local authority elections and the general?

But those non-college-educated GOP voters split fairly evenly between Santorum and Gingrich, allowing Romney to prevail with a plurality of votes.

The vote was split mostly between party lines in the committee, with eight Republicans voting against the bill and seven Democrats voting for it.

Had the centre - left vote not been split between Lab / Lib / Green, a majority should have been possible in 2010 (certainly Labour would have held my constituency).

With the right split between Tory and UKIP, and the LDs staying suppressed, Labour should be able to get a majority on less than a third of the vote.

Successive surveys have shown that Labour loyalties - not just voting behaviour but emotional identification with the party - declined steeply between 1979 and 1983, when the party had its protracted row about nuclear disarmament and the split which led to the formation of the Social Democratic Party.

The 45 % Yes vote is sufficient in a first - past - the post electoral system for the SNP to dominate, whilst the «No» vote is split between all the unionist parties.

Wright, who is considering a candidacy for the Harlem congressional seat now held by Charles Rangel, threw his support to Heastie which was a major boost to The Bronx representative's chances because black and Latino legislators would not have to split votes between two black candidates.

In Danehouse ward there was a tighter system for obtaining proxy votes than in the 1999 election but overall the number of absent votes were only a 100 less than in 1999, while split fairly evenly between Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

Gipson, 57, won election to his first term in the Senate when a vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage by former Republican state Sen. Steve Saland led to Republicans and Conservatives splitting their votes between Saland, R - Poughkeepsie, and Conservative candidate Neil DiCarlo, of Putnam County, in 2012.

Her best hope is that disgruntled Democrats, split between party nominees Jay Wenk and Laura Ricci, bolt their line and vote for (gasp!)

While it is probably wrong to view voting behaviour too much through an ideological prism (models of electoral behaviour these days tend to be more dominated by voters perceptions of compentence, rather than ideology), throughout the 1980s the left - of - centre vote tended to be split between two parties.

And if Ukip's vote goes heavily Tory there, that would suggest there must be other seats in other regions where it is splitting more evenly between reds and blues.

Shouldn't the Democratic vote get split between the two Ds, leaving the lone R running away in a landslide?

Numerous post-election studies show that around 60 % of the 2015 UKIP vote went to the Conservatives, with the rest split roughly equally between swichting to Labour, sticking with UKIP and abstaining.

[10] This occurred on the same night as the local Green Party stood aside in Brighton Kemptown in order to ensure the seat was not won by the Conservatives due to a split vote between progressive parties.

Prime Minister Tony Blair voted in favour of a 50/50 split between elected and appointed members - also Mr Straw's preferred choice - but not for any other proposal.