Sentences with phrase «votes at local elections»

Given that these elections were taking place at the same time as Euro elections, which we know from previous experience tends to help Ukip to win votes at local elections, one might say: good but not brilliant.

Nearly two - thirds of the time the party that receives the most number of votes at local elections goes on the get the most votes at the next national election.

On average estimates for the national level vote at local elections are different from the results of a subsequent national election by nearly 5 %.

In May 2000, 2002 and 2003, many local authorities piloted all - postal voting at their local elections.

The outcome of those pilots was a recommendation from the Electoral Commission that all - postal voting should be adopted as the normal method of voting at local elections in the UK.

I will be voting at the local elections Plaid has the best AM in my area, so i will be voting Plaid, in the hope we get another Coalition government, otherwise our Welsh labour would follow it's English mates in becoming a purple flag flying New labour.

I also believe the Tory vote at the local elections was more of a reaction to the way Labour have been handling the countries affairs over the last 10 years.

Not exact matches

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

Greeks began voting at precisely 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT, 12 a.m. EDT) in their most critical - and uncertain - election in decades, with voters set to punish the two main parties that are being held responsible for the country's dire economic...

and after listening to my local priest proclaim that he was a Republican during his homilies and after getting a last minute «YOU know who your pastoral conscience suggests you vote for» at the last mass before the election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE vote for» at the last mass before the election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE VOTE FOR.

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

However, given lax proof requirements at registration, and even laxer requirements of identity proof at the time of voting, the results of every local / regional election in areas highly populated by non-citizens is in doubt.

Using the same data a logit regression model improves the predictive power of local elections to tell us who will win the most votes at the next general election, making correct predictions 86.21 % of the time.

If voters used local elections purely to vote on local issues, then we'd have to conclude that the spectacular collapse of the Tories in the 90s was because their councillors gave up on bin collection, whilst the Lib Dems were good at sorting potholes during the 2000s but went on strike in the 2010s.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

If a similar pattern is maintained at these local elections — and it was in last year's county council elections — then the Labour vote will increase more (or fall less) were the Remain vote was higher in 2016, while the converse will be true of the Conservatives.

The Supplementary Vote (SV)-- this system is employed to elect single office - holders for a whole regional or local authority area (spanning many constituencies or wards, and sometimes called «at large» elections).

[99] On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31 % of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.

Labour lost by 6.5 % in 2015, and the projected vote share at the local elections showed Labour beating the Tories by a point.

UKIP's share of general election vote intention, at 14 % last week, is much more muted than the 23 % they achieved in the Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from the local elections.

US citizens vote on the first Tuesday in November at the general election to elect the various members of the Senate and the House of Representatives as well as state and local government officials.

A Com / Res poll for ITV on 30 April put UKIP 11 points ahead of Labour, with 38 % of voters saying they intend to vote for Nigel Farage's party at the European and local elections on 22 May.

On average the vote shares for each party from the 1999 - 2009 are 8.75 percentage points different from their vote shares at the next general election, almost double that of local elections.

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.

In fact, several cities and towns in Maryland currently allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, and, historically, over 40 states or territories have, at some point in the past, allowed non-citizen voting in some elections.

European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.

Ironically were the Conservatives comeback to fail to fire at the local elections the SNP would find it harder to get their vote out come June 8 and a low turnout could actually see more of their seats fall to unionist parties.

1) Each local election predicts that the Conservatives will win more of the vote than Labour at the next election, though the confidence intervals for the 2012 and 2013 elections are overlapping.

My analysis of the 2013 and 2014 local elections argued that the rise of the UKIP vote came almost equally at the expense of both main parties.

The vote shares (National Equivalent Vote) in the English local elections put Labour at the top, on 33 per cent (3 points up on 20vote shares (National Equivalent Vote) in the English local elections put Labour at the top, on 33 per cent (3 points up on 20Vote) in the English local elections put Labour at the top, on 33 per cent (3 points up on 2015).

The government pressed on regardless — and produced a collapse in the vote for the LibDems at the recent local elections largely because they have been seen to betray a specific pre-election promise.

After declining the opportunity to vote at the most recent local elections, Michael Rogers, 19 at the time, told the BBC: «I just felt it would have been voting for the party that I hated the least, rather than the one I wanted to have power the most.»

«What I'm doing is talking about what the Conservatives offer at the local elections and in the end it's people who will go and vote and people who will choose.

At the beginning of the 20th century, at least 22 states and territories permitted non-U.S. citizens to vote in local, state, and national electionAt the beginning of the 20th century, at least 22 states and territories permitted non-U.S. citizens to vote in local, state, and national electionat least 22 states and territories permitted non-U.S. citizens to vote in local, state, and national elections.

But if they're wise enough to vote Liberal Democrat at the next local elections in Hull, or for the Conservatives in any seat where we are well - placed to defeat Labour, then they will have a council that is fulfilling its statutory duty.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

Furthermore, please contact your local council (most likely the electoral registration department or Chief Executive's office) to discover when the votes for your constituency at the general election will be counted.

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In Tower Hamlets, the High Court suspended the Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, after he was found guilty of falsifying postal votes and putting undue pressure on voters at polling stations during the 2014 local and European elections.

The party vote share at the local elections was notably higher than the 7.4 % vote share won by their Dublin candidate, Emer Costello, at the European elections, as shown by Figure 2.

Labour won 121,900 first preference votes at the 2014 Local Elections.

Regionally, the party still fared best in the Dublin region at the local elections, where Labour candidates won 12.0 % of all the first preference votes, but the party vote share in Dublin fell dramatically from a 26.4 % level at the 2009 elections.

Speaking while reacting to a statement credited to Governor Wike where he asked the Ogoni to vote against Senator Abe as a matter of priority, at a groundbreaking rally organised by Khana Connected Friends at Bori Police Field, Bori in Khana Local Government Area, Abe queried why who would win Rivers South East Senatorial election was more important to Wike than who would win in his own Senatorial District, the Rivers East.

This share of the vote was down on the 14.7 % vote share won by the party at the 2009 Local Elections.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu announced this on 4th May at a Press Conference on the Kano State Local Government Election, where there had been reports that underage persons voted in the eElection, where there had been reports that underage persons voted in the electionelection.

Not only will you be able to vote in the upcoming leadership election, but you can have a say in forming our policy platform at party conferences as well as choosing local candidates.

At these local elections, the Conservatives benefitted from this restructuring of UKIP supporters, gaining Basildon, bringing Dudley to an even split with Labour and almost decimating Labour's leads in North - East Lincolnshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth — all of which were heavily Leave - voting areas.

While the Irish Speakers also give up their party membership and are elected automatically at general elections, much like Westminster, their local electors still get the chance to vote for party candidates to fill the constituency's remaining seats.

At a branch level, particularly hot on the heels of local elections, it's no wonder that parties have their eyes on constituency presence and vote - share rather than the corridors of Westminster.

And everywhere I have voted (which includes several countries because as EU citizen I could vote in local elections outside of my country of origin), this means I had to sign in a register or at least that someone checked that my name was on a list.