Sentences with phrase «voting pacts with»

Of the 30 seats in the six counties that would become Northern Ireland, 23 were won by Unionists, including 3 Labour Unionists and five of the six IPP members returned in Ireland were elected in Ulster as a result of local voting pacts with Sinn Féin.

Well, in Tower Hamlets, the opposition Labour group don't need a 2/3 majority because they have formed a voting pact with the David Cameron's Tories.

Not exact matches

@Stuart White: Of course there's a difference between (a) a minority government which a smaller party permits to remain in office by not using its votes to defeat its programme and legislation, either ad hoc or in accordance with some semi-formal pact, and (b) a coalition in which both parties hold seats in the Cabinet.

These include proportional representation, which the left and the party generally are divided on, and for which, as indicated by the 2011 alternative vote fiasco, there is little public support, but it is linked to the proposal for an electoral pact with some of the smaller parties, and for that reason needs to be considered well before the election, as does the issue of winning back the Labour vote in Scotland, or at least starting to.

UKIP may have cost the Conservatives up to 20 seats at the 2010 general election with a split in the eurosceptic vote, leading to talk of a ceasefire, pact or merger between the two parties.

And the Lib Dems are no stranger to this what with their tactical voting, pact with Labour and decapitation strategies.

Nat le Roux argues that a one - off electoral reform pact between Labour and some or all of the minor parties in 2020, with a common manifesto commitment to introduce a new voting system, would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

If voters strongly associate a small party with one of the major parties — and an electoral pact or formal call for tactical voting would be a clear signal — they will believe a vote for the small party is effectively a vote for a government led by its proximate major party.

So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.

A Conservative MP is suggesting an electoral pact with UKIP ahead of the 2015 general election, to prevent a spit in the «small c Conservative vote».

The closest this country has come to a minority government in recent years is the 1977 Lib - Lab pact, when a beleaguered Labour government with no overall majority agreed to accept a range of Liberal party policy proposals — on condition the Liberals voted with Labour in any no confidence votes.

Speaking after the vote was passed, ATL general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: «Michael Gove and Sir Michael Wilshaw are like blood brothers with a pact to suck the life and hope out of our education system and the teachers who work within it.»