Sentences with phrase «weeks before polling day»

Look at 1970, they say, when Labour were 14 points ahead, weeks before polling day, only to see Ted Heath walk through the doors of Downing Street.

One, by ICM, conducted two weeks before polling day, reported a 14 point Labour lead (Labour 47 %, SNP 33 %).

But Goldsmith is expected to unleash a wave of direct mail and poster campaigning in the weeks before polling day that Labour will struggle to match.

But it is real; and given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, bad news for Miliband.

However churlish it may be to say so, though, one thing is nonetheless crashingly obvious: Labour should have been taking this stance since it left office, not a few weeks before polling day.

About three weeks before polling day, members of the Wheelhouse executive realised the disaster that they were facing.

The study claimed that 80 % of the accounts were created in the weeks before polling day, and were used to target voters with key political messages during vital points in the campaign, including the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing.

With 306 seats in the House of Commons, the Conservative Party was 20 seats short of the overall majority that looked all but assured only weeks before polling day.

apply only during the period beginning 9 weeks before polling day and ending with the close of the day before polling day.

The 2008 local elections and the 2009 European elections followed in due course; by 2010 the machine was well - oiled enough that in the final week before polling day it was a case of getting rid of surplus leaflets rather than rushing to target specific areas.

With a 52 % vote share in the week before polling day, Seema Malhotra seems to be on course for what looks like a convincing victory.

An Evening Standard feature on the battle in Brentford and Isleworth published a week before polling day states: «Ms Macleod says the choice is between Mrs May and Mr Corbyn, and voters need to decide who will best stand up for the UK's interests.»

The Shadow Chancellor also took aim at Mr Blair and Lord Mandelson for making interventions in the last week before polling day, as did Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald.

Imagine the outcry there would have been from Labour politicians six months ago if David Cameron, the Leader of the Opposition, had gone out and endorsed a struggling Prime Minister somewhere else in the world, a week before polling day in that country's general election.

The third TV debate, a week before polling day, was the final chance to land a knockout blow and change the course of the election.

Not exact matches

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

One of parliament's deputy Speakers announced she couldn't cope with another five years of working for up to 14 hours, six days a week, with less than two months to go before polling day.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to hold a double - digit lead over his Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, with less than two weeks to go before Election Day, according to a Siena College poll released this morning.

A poll conducted fifteen weeks before Election Day shows incumbent New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is maintaining a wide lead over his nearest challenger.

The party's help comes with two weeks to go before Election Day and as Gillibrand has a wide lead in the polls, along with fundraising support.

McCall was leading in the polls when Cuomo dropped out of the Democratic primary race one week before voting day.

Maffei holds a small lead over Katko in polls, but a large fundraising lead with just over two weeks before Election Day.

«The government should also accept and implement the principle of agreeing funding legislation for polls by six months before polling day — rather than just four - and - a-half weeks in this case - to allow for proper planning,» Watson added.

This is why the timing of the royal wedding, just a week or so before polling day, is such bad news for AV backers.

-- Creation of an early voting period: 35 states offer some form of early voting, generally 1 - 2 weeks before Election Day at a selected number of «super poll sites.»

Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg told us back then that they will likely be back in the field next week with a poll out a few days before the election.

The polling, all in Lib Dem - held seats, was done 10 days before last week's key parliamentary vote to increase university tuition fees to up to # 9,000 a year, which saw the party's MPs split three ways and the coalition's Commons majority slashed by three quarters.

The Siena poll of 930 New York voters, conducted over four days last week, was released two months before New York holds its presidential primary election, on April 19.

With just over a week to go until polling day the election campaign has come alive as never before with the prime minister caught making an unguarded comment about a voter.

Public polls have shown Lhota trailing Democratic nominee Bill de Blasio by double digits with a week - and - half to go before Election Day.

There is no escaping the effect of this, whether you agree with the prime minister that Gillian Duffy is a bigot (and what she said about eastern Europeans flocking to this country could certainly be suggestive of her views) or not: the fact that he can be that dismissive about a voter will resonate with the electorate with a week to go before polling day.

A poll conducted fifteen weeks before Election Day shows incumbent New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is maintaining a wide lead over his nearest challenger.

MANHATTAN — Less than a week before Election Day, Andrew Cuomo is maintaining his commanding lead over bombastic challenger Carl Paladino, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

This would see polling day take place a week before potentially politically hazardous growth figures are released which could see Britain tipping back into recession.

By the time voting booths closed on the primary last week, polls announced only the day before were already out of date, off by as much as 10 points.

Nearly two - thirds of New York City voters say they don't know enough about Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis to form an opinion — with just five weeks to go before Election Day, according to a new poll.

The bills would establish early voting at designated polling sites up to two weeks before a primary, special or general election, including some weekend days.

The contest, announced after weeks of wrangling, will be the only time Conservative PM David Cameron and Labour's Ed Miliband will face one another in a debate before polling day.

They found that a home team win in the 2 weeks before Election Day gave an incumbent politician a 1.05 % to 1.47 % bump in the polls.

With less than four weeks before Election Day, only this much is certain: More ads, more phone polls, more fliers and more door - knockers will result in more interruptions, more shouting, more litter and more intrusions when all you want to do is sip a glass of wine and actually finish the last chapter before book club this month.