Sentences with phrase «votes than the conservative»

Labour received 300,000 fewer votes than the Conservatives but because of Britain's controversial electoral geography Labour became the largest party in the House of Commons.

It's a possibility that Labour might win more seats but less votes than the Conservatives, or vice versa.

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

In 2010 the Ukip candidate in Rushcliffe clocked around 25000 fewer votes than the Conservative candidate.

Labour can reach a Commons majority with a smaller lead in the vote than the Conservatives can, all else being equal.

He would very likely become prime minister with one more seat or one more vote than the Conservatives.

Ed Balls will succeed Gordon Brown and Labour will win a narrow majority in 2019 although probably with fewer votes than the Conservatives.

«The momentum is all in Wu's favor because the turnout will be low and more liberal downstate Democrats are more likely to vote than the conservative upstaters.»

even if polling far more votes than the Conservatives overall.

Not exact matches

Encompassing more than 60 % of the vote, his supporters include progressives eager to see Edmonton embrace urbanism now, and conservatives happier with the way the city has always been.

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

If you want to fit in to that Calgary neighbourhood it helps if you're married, voted conservative, earn more than a half million annually and have a taste for champagne — the denizens there drink more than twice as much bubbly than the national average (no doubt toasting their good luck to be part of the oil patch).

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

Since the popular vote for the Conservatives in 2011 was less than that, Mossop doesn't think Harper will pay any great political price for approving the pipeline.

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

With more than just a few weeks to organize, vote - swapping could well result in a Conservative rout.

A recent debate on strategic voting between Erin Weir and Matthew Bergbusch prompts me to wonder the extent to which liberals are more progressive than conservatives in the federal political arena.

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.

«Since the 2015 Alberta election there has been significant discussion about the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and the Wildrose Party coming together to form a new political party,» he said, adding that the voting record «shows the two parties may have more in common than some critics have suggested.»

Perry «might could» do better in South Carolina than in Iowa, but his likeliest role is as a spoiler for Santorum, siphoning off social conservative votes that would otherwise go to the home - schooling father of seven.

In Harris» narrative, it's hard to see exactly how she comes to the conclusion that concerns for «the poor's rights» demand aligning with liberal politics rather than those of Christian conservatives, but by the end, Harris finds herself on the opposite side of the political spectrum, voting with those she had envisioned as the manifestation of evil while growing up.

I think that most right wings religious conservatives would hate Romney and consider him the antichrist if they only had someone other than Obama to vote for.

Thus heavy viewers of religious programs are more likely than light viewers to describe themselves as conservative, to oppose a nuclear freeze, to favor tougher laws against pornography, and to have voted in the last election.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

Mormons make up less than 2 % of the population of the US and even if they all were conservative (which they are not) it wouldn't make up for the blacks that will vote for Obama ONLY because he is black.

Whether the issue is size of government, or taxes, or abortion, a larger fraction of nonwhite voters are (moderately) on the conservative side of the issue than voted for Romney.

This is particularly in evidence at the moment and we typically find that 10 % fewer Labour than Conservative voters are certain to vote.

So now, even before Emma Benson, a field director for the conservative political organization Americans for Prosperity, knocks on a door, she has more than 700 data points about the person behind it, like magazine subscriptions, car ownership (make, model, year), propensity for voting, and likes and dislikes mined from Facebook and Twitter, from rock bands to baseball teams.

Europe minister David Lidington has hit out against Conservative eurosceptics ahead of Wednesday's likely vote by telling them to focus on issues other than the in / out referendum tearing his party apart.

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

There is evidence of an interactive effect in the case of the Conservative / Liberal equation: it seems that among poll watchers, and only among them, the propensity to vote Conservative rather than Liberal was related to the gap between the two parties in the most recent poll.

He defended the coalition's legitimacy by pointing out that the votes received by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were higher than the number cast for the SNP in the Scottish parliament regional list.

Eric Pickles, the new Chairman of the Conservative Party, talks of his desire for people to feel pride rather than embrassed or ashamed of voting ConservativeDaily Telegraph 02/03/2009

«What the country needs more than ever is certainty, and having secured the largest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the General Election, it is clear that only the Conservative & Unionist Party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.

So, for example, Anglicans who attend services regularly (once a month or more) have historically been more likely to vote Conservative than those who attended less often or not at all («nominal Anglicans»).

The Conservatives in 2010 got more votes nationally than Labour in 2005... and fewer seats.

Still, while all MPs do better among those who will vote for that party than those who won't, Lib Dems appear to be able to connect with non-supporters in a way that neither Labour nor Conservative MPs can.

«I got more votes in my district — I ran on three lines — I got more votes on the Democratic line than the Republican and Conservative combined,» he said.

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

That is why even today if someone is from an ethnic minority, even if they are highly educated or rich, they are much more likely to vote Labour than vote Conservative.

The Conservatives won overall control of more than 30 councils — mostly, it should be noted, councils without a single party majority before the vote.

He tells Sunday Live he believes the Conservatives and Lib Dems will «cobble together» an agreement but that stable government is «much, much more important than some squabble over the voting system.»»

I argued here that Conservative and Lib Dem supporters in Scotland probably would not often vote tactically for Labour because they are not much more fond of Labour than they are of the SNP.

Those who considered voting Lib Dem but decided not to were more likely to think the party did the right thing by entering a coalition with the Conservatives (55 %) than those who did vote Lib Dem (49 %).

Imagine it now has 295 MPs in the new House of Commons, 30 more than the Conservatives - even though the Tories have won a million more votes.

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.

Last year, despite winning more votes the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority because the Labour vote share went up by more than did that for the Conservatives.