Sentences with phrase «votes in a seat where»

The Ukip vote there was up 13.4 %, providing 7,951 votes in a seat where just 422 decided it.

In the south London seat of Tooting, Sadiq Khan only increased his lead by 300 votes in a seat where a much stronger result was expected.

Not exact matches

This represented a significant improvement from the last election in 2004, where the Party (led at the time by Premier Ralph Klein) won 62 seats and 47 percent of the vote.

State Sen. Joseph Robach, a Democrat - turned - Republican, will not run for the congressional seat once held by late Rep. Louise Slaughter, saying he believes he can have the «greatest impact» if he stays put in the Senate, where his party holds a tenuous one - vote majority.

It occurs that I should probably source that - Observer, 23 Dec 2007, column by Denis MacShane entitled «An open letter to Nick Clegg»: «Before the 2001 election, I urged Labour voters in seats where Lib - Dem candidates were best placed to beat off Conservatives to vote tactically.

Scotland's Big Voice aims to persuade people they need to vote for a party other than the one they support in seats where doing so could blunt the nationalist threat.

The group has around 2,000 supporters on Facebook and says it is planning to begin door - knocking in seats where it thinks tactical voting could make a difference.

Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

«Ukip is getting itself now into a position in some of the marginals where it is in a serious position to win a seat in parliament and not just to split the vote.»

An election where most seats are won by narrow majorities would result in most of the elected (on both sides) having only negligible voting power.

Significant numbers of Labour supporters may be willing to vote tactically for the Lib Dems in seats where the Conservatives are the second largest party, the poll found.

It's not clear if the Democrats will pick up any of these seats, but they have a shot in one race where their candidate is up by 33 votes (I will do an analysis of this race in a future post, but now my gut says the Republicans will hold the seat because the Democrat closed the gap late).

This could be undertaken in a formal coalition or an informal arrangement known as confidence and supply, where a smaller party agrees to back the larger partner in crucial votes in return for policies but does not take ministerial seats.

As Anthony Wells points out, it is somewhat inevitable that Labour should be doing worse where they started stronger because there are some places where they didn't have 15 points to lose, but it might also be partly because Ashcroft only polled in Labour seats where the Yes vote was relatively strong in the independence referendum.

The Liberal Democrats» vote has fallen by half in constituencies where Labour are their main challengers, according to my latest round of polling in marginal seats.

He added: «Obviously, I am disappointed at any places where we lost a bit of ground, but if you look at the overall picture, Labour gained a lot of seats across the whole country; we gained a lot of votes in places we never had those votes before.»

They were undone, however, by a collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote which meant the party lost more seats to Labour where Labour was the second - placed candidate than they gained directly from the Lib Dems where they were the challengers.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

This system is designed to avoid a situation where a party receives a large share of the votes in an area but doesn't actually get many seats (e.g. coming a close second in every constituency but not winning any).

In Lewisham, where we took our highest number of votes, it is believed that Labour will put forward an all - female BAME shortlist to contest Heidi Alexander's seat.

These polls typically do not show much sign of switching between general and constituency specific vote intention, except in Liberal Democrat seats where it is unclear whether the switching is tactical or due to the personal popularity of the sitting MP.

UKIP are not fielding candidates in 255 seats, including many where they won thousands of votes in 2015 (often more than the margin between the first and second - placed parties).

In terms of the electoral law — well, it's FPTP, so you're going to have a lot of councils where the winning party won an overwhelming majority of seats on less than 50 percent of the vote.

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

I recently wrote to David Cameron outlining our intention to contest the 30 most marginal Conservative seats in 2015, where majorities in the 2010 general election ranged between 54 and 1,692 votes.

The Conservatives» remarkable success in converting coalition into majority government is down to two factors: this was the first governing party to increase its vote share after a full term in office for more than a century and it succeeded in concentrating that vote increase in the seats where it counted.

The support of Lib Dem and Green voters could be crucial to Lewis's hopes of retaining his seat in a city where the Remain vote was 56.2 %.

I decided to look primarily at Labour seats — including some with colossal majorities — in areas which voted yes to independence, or where the result was very close (more...)

Even if the Conservatives pick up most of the seats UKIP lose, a potentially bigger question is where the former UKIP vote goes in places where they did well last time but did not win.

Some voters may also hear a patronising message to the effect that they are too dim to understand the consequences of their vote — and many live in seats where UKIP present the only prospect of removing a sitting Labour MP.

Some are voting tactically in seats where it is a two horse race, others are looking for a new electoral home after the betrayal of Nick Clegg in entering a coalition with the Tories.

But Labour too lost votes and seats, in a campaign where the party expected to capitalise on mistrust of the Westminster coalition.

Labour's Kate Hoey heads a new list of 20 seats where constituents voted to stay in the EU but their representatives are Brexit supporters.

A Liberal Democrat defeat, in a seat where they trailed Labour by only 103 votes last May, would inevitably increase the pressure on Mr Clegg from the doubters in his party, which is used to winning by - elections rather than losing them.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

Now they'll have to raise even more money to keep control of the largest town in the county, where Mr. Lesko's seat currently gives them a one - vote majority.

But in those seats where it came second in the by - election (as UKIP has done in Eastleigh), it went on to lose almost half its vote share at the next general election.

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.

Solihull was in the past regarded as a solid Tory monolith — a similar seat to Sutton Coldfield on the other side of Birmingham where the Tory vote could be weighted rather than counted.

In Second place in the 2015 City Council Race (where two seats are up for grabs) was Council Candidate, Andre Wallace who received 20 % of the vote with 2,226 voteIn Second place in the 2015 City Council Race (where two seats are up for grabs) was Council Candidate, Andre Wallace who received 20 % of the vote with 2,226 votein the 2015 City Council Race (where two seats are up for grabs) was Council Candidate, Andre Wallace who received 20 % of the vote with 2,226 votes.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

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.

It does not do Oakeshott, or his ideas of a progressive alliance, much good if Liberal Democrat supporters do not vote Labour in the seats where he has donated money to Labour, or vice-versa.

And because our archaic voting system tends towards the creation of safe seats, there are a lot of places where incumbents stay in position for a long time.

BME voters are more likely to live in safe Labour seats where there may not be an active Conservative Party and statistically they are over-represented in lower socio - economic groups, so you would expect them to be more likely to vote Labour.

The party did not appear to lose any seats due to the Windrush crisis, but Brexit weighed heavily, with the Liberal Democrats gaining Richmond, in south - west London, where 69 % had voted to remain in the EU.

Obviously this site could have the opposite effect in safe seats such as Knowsley where there voting power is roughly 100x weaker than the average UK voter and hence could lead people not to vote.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courtsIn many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courtsin some states, state appellate courts).

He's recognised that the opportunities now are against Labour, in seats where the Cons are third place and the voters just as fed up with Brown as anywhere else, and looking for someone else to vote for.

She added that there were clear marginal seats where her party would be a «driving force» and a candidate could «take that vote and ultimately be an MP representing UKIP in the House of Commons».