Sentences with phrase «voting area»

Despite being the only significant party in England that opposes Brexit, the Liberal Democrats did not perform noticeably better in Remain voting areas.

Both use a first past the post (i.e. the candidate (s) with a plurality of votes wins) in individual voting areas (parliamentary constituencies at national level, wards an local...

The post-Brexit realignment of British politics continues, partly because the Tories recouped a lot of ex-Ukip votes, but also because they gained directly from Labour in Leave - voting areas such as Nuneaton.

The first voting areas start to report at 11:30 p.m. local time (6:30 p.m. ET), but our best guess is that we won't know which of the Brexit or Bremain camps is the victor until 5 a.m. local time (or 12:00 a.m. ET), when 80 % of the votes are likely to be counted.

Theresa May's Conservatives hope to pick up most of the benefit, particularly in Leave voting areas.

Luckily there were not many Yes voting areas.

The way Miliband is off around the English voting area because as he said this is the main loses, well the Tories went from one seat to eight in my area in two elections I think that should be a worry.

And that is crucial — while every one of Scotland's voting areas voted Remain, Aberdeenshire saw a higher leave vote than average, with several wards overwhelmingly backing leave.

@ohwilleke Not that even real national vote share is a good measure of the winner in multiple voting areas with first past the post.

After the EU referendum it has become common place to discuss the regional disconnect afflicting the UK, with traditionally Labour voting areas in the North of England and Wales having overwhelmingly backed Brexit.

Even the Lib Dems had some successes in core vote areas, which may deter an instant panic.

With 439 of the 440 voting areas counted, the no campaign had established a lead of 68 % to 32 %, another wounding blow to Nick Clegg, whose Liberal Democrats had secured a referendum as one of their cherished prizes in negotiations with the Conservatives to form the coalition last year.

Only a few voting areas came out with a majority for a yes vote, including Cambridge, Glasgow Kelvin, and the London boroughs of Camden, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth and Southwark.

Since then the growing ethnic minority population and boundary changes in 2010 which removed the Conservative voting area of Pinner have moved it further into the Labour column, to the point where it can be held even in what was a very bad election for the party.

Both use a first past the post (i.e. the candidate (s) with a plurality of votes wins) in individual voting areas (parliamentary constituencies at national level, wards an local level).

UKIP says it'll be the main challenger in traditionally Labour - voting areas such as the South Wales Valleys.

The Liberal Democrats gained control of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, a heavily Remain voting area, from the Conservatives.

«Watch out for Remain - voting areas swinging towards Labour and Leave - voting areas swinging towards the Tories, much as happened last year,» said Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.

«If they don't pick those up then it will be an indication that outside of London — in more Leave - voting areas — the Labour party has found it more difficult to make an advance.»

Salford in Greater Manchester, an area identified by HSBC as one of the «key» voting areas is expected imminently.

The party's advances in Leave - voting areas and big gains from Ukip may convince MPs to push for a hard Brexit.

In spite of May's claim that she wanted to «bring our country back together», the results underlined sharp divisions between England's towns and cities and between leave and remain - voting areas.

On paper this could be an interesting race - a decent Ukip vote from 2015 for the Tories to mine in a Leave - voting area, with the Lib Dems using their historical strength here to appeal to Remainers.

In Redditch, another Leave - voting area, Labour struggled, losing three seats while the Conservatives picked up four to take control of the council.

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.

The protesters accused Awe of bungling last Saturday's governorship primary and masterminding the invasion of the voting area by suspected thugs led by a member of Awe's exco, Demola Adeusi, a.ka.

[6] Of 440 voting areas (based on Parliamentary constituencies) only 10 of the 440 areas returned «yes» votes in favour of AV, of which six were in London, the others being Oxford and Cambridge, Edinburgh Central and Glasgow Kelvin.

Not least of the reasons for this divergence is that UKIP performed best in 2014 in Leave - voting areas.

They have also been voted the area's «Best Dating Service» in 2016, 2017 and 2018.