Sentences with phrase «voters in the seat even»

Plaid's strength in Ynys Mon is its grassroots grounding; a solid core of activists who have been talking to voters in the seat even when they're not died - in - the - wool nationalists.

Not exact matches

Harper has spent the last four days campaigning in the voter - dense areas around Toronto and southwestern Ontario, venturing even into safe Conservative seats to try and counter the Liberal threat.

In these seats the ground campaign looks quite even, if not exactly intense: 15 % of voters said they had heard locally from Labour, and 14 % from UKIP.

Only 46 per cent of this group agree that the proposed cuts are «necessary and unavoidable» — well below the average for all voters (63 per cent) and lower even than among public sector workers in the seat (59 per cent).

Even in places where leave was strongest, such as Yeovil and rural south Somerset, Grant says the party believes there are enough angry remain voters to take back parliamentary seats.

Boundaries have changed in many seats since 2005, and the strength of the Lib Dems means some two - way marginals now look more like three - way marginals: add in the rise of smaller parties such as the Greens, plus highly volatile national polls, and even hardened tactical voters may struggle to work out which horse to back locally this time.

New York election law doesn't require Paterson to call for a special election to fill Massa's seat, even though voters in the upstate district would be without a representative for 10 months.

The «job that isn't even open yet» stuff might strike you as strange as it seems to brush aside the little technicality that the AG seat will be «open» in the fall for voters to fill no matter when or whether Cuomo decides to run for governor.

It was mentally insane to keep her as leader that after she lost 63 seats and even more so now as she not only had minimal gains this time but she's probably going to lose seats again next time because you won't have African American and Latino voters coming out to vote in such large numbers which was Obama true assets, racial identity politics (not criticizing it, just saying he did it well).

But fear of local voters counted as much yesterday evening as fear of local activists - at least for MPs in marginal seats,

Significantly, even in the Liberal Democrat - held seats, less than a quarter of voters thought the Lib Dems were having a significant impact on the coalition government's agenda.

Corbyn's popularity among the under - 35s is of little use here - even if Labour got a significant young vote in most of these seats, with Corbynmania in full flow, it still wouldn't come close to outweighing older voters.

Backed up by polling showing Labour streaking ahead in London, it's easy to see the basis of this trend, even if certain seat - specific results look odd - lots of ethnic minority voters, lots of young voters and students, lots of young professionals, and lots of angry Remainers make for lots of Labour votes.

I think he retains his seat even as the district runs 400 voters in favor of the Democrats.

At the moment you're probably right that even if Con picked up every UKIP voter, it wouldn't affect the result in those most marginal seats... but it would make a difference in target seats further down the list, and consequently to Labour's majority / largest party prospects.

Even Tony Benn was hopeless at convincing actual voters, (famously losing his own seat in 1983's electoral calamity).

Some voters don't even fill in any choices for down - ballot races like judicial seats due to a lack of familiarity with the candidates.

With the national surge in their support the party might do even better and add a third seat to their tally, especially if the Liberal Democrats lose a lot of votes, or northern Tory voters defect in numbers to them.

2 votes in the general election was the difference here between having a Liberal Democrat MP and potential resurgence next time around for the party as unionist voters flock to them in opposition to the SNP, which might have allowed the party to retain the seat even with boundary changes at the next general election, and what seems to be SNP representation for the foreseeable future as the unionist vote in North East Fife fractures off to the Conservatives.

Even though the last time a Democrat occupied the seat was four decades ago, Democrats outnumber Republicans in the district by nearly 6,000 registered voters.

Look at the London local elections in 2006, the turnout was so low that many Conservatives, Lib Dems, and even Greens and BNP people were elected; a feat which wasn't repeated in 2010 when Labour voters for the General election took part in the local elections, letting Labour gain many more seats despite being less popular nationally than in 2006.

Even when 52 percent of voters want a Democratic House, antiquated winner - take - all voting in single - winner districts leads to Republicans holding 57 percent of seats.