A key conclusion is that the formula proposed in the 2010 coalition agreement, of bringing the balance in the Lords into line
with general election votes, is completely unsustainable.
The graph below shows the BBC Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from local elections together
with general election vote intention from the polls for the month before each round of local elections.
Not exact matches
That precinct provided Mitt Romney
with 175 total
votes in the 2012
general election.
But it seems that the Brexit
vote — combined
with the strong possibility that Corbyn may not even be a Labour leader by the next
General Election — proved too much Piketty.
The Abacus study also asked those who
voted in the 2015 Canadian
General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral
Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate,
with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian
election had it been run under different electoral
election had it been run under different electoral systems.
It's funny, I was chatting
with god the other night, you know about girls and money and basically life in
general, and then from out of no where god was like, «Yo, Chuckles, I have a job for you, it's very important that you do it, I need you to go and
vote this upcoming
election and I need you to
vote for Rick Perry, he seems a little crazy, but don't worry, he's all good in my book».
In last fall's presidential
election pro-life voters were faced
with a difficult moral choice emblematic of the politics of abortion in
general: Does moral principle demand a
vote for a marginally pro-life candidate
with a chance of winning, or does it demand a
vote for a completely pro-life....
With just one day to go until the General election, Premier spoke with Christian candidates about why people should vote for their pa
With just one day to go until the
General election, Premier spoke
with Christian candidates about why people should vote for their pa
with Christian candidates about why people should
vote for their party.
Data shows that 87.3 % of the electorate
voted in the Scottish referendum compared
with little more than 60 % in recent
general elections.
Highbury 44 and the rest of your fast shrinking delusionals, if you
vote in
General elections, I reckon the LIBDEMS
WITH THEIR 7 % SUPPPORT will get your
vote.
Had Labour achieved a higher
vote share in the 2015
general election then Miliband would now be better known to Americans as the UK prime minister who is preparing forge a working relationship
with Donald Trump.
«I have a live and current understanding and experience of the changes in the party, both from the two leadership
elections and the
general election where I was out on the doorstep
with all of these new members,» says McKeever, who missed out on the Commons by just 1159
votes.
Rosena Allin - Khan, a junior doctor and local councillor, romped to victory
with 17,894
votes - increasing Labour's majority in Tooting from 2,842 in last year's
general election to 6,357.
The graphs below show how changes in the shares of council seats won by each party are strongly correlated
with changes in
general election vote intentions.
«When, before the 2005
general election, the Electoral Commission launched a campaign to persuade young people to
vote with the shout - line: «If you don't do politics... there's not much you do do», they missed the point entirely.
A secretive group is beginning campaigning in Scotland this week
with a simple mission: stopping the SNP by encouraging tactical
voting in the 2015
general election.
But, polls show that at least 40 % of the British public, many of whom
voted Labour in the last
general election, agree
with me.
With perhaps just over two months until the
general election, voters may have less than a fortnight to register to
vote once the polling date has been announced by the prime minister.
Even though Samia was earlier tipped to win the
elections, the former
General Secretary emerged
with 1, 288
votes, representing 64.2 % of valid
votes cast.
Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun
vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest
with the Democratic junior senator in the November
general election.
In the 2015
general election, a staggering 90 % of these people
voted SNP, while only 9 % stayed
with Labour.
Taking a mandate from his small base (compared to the UK population and also the nine million people that
voted Labour at the last
general election), he and Momentum are sweeping the nation
with a message of progressive change.
The referendum campaign greatly increased support for independence, which is highly correlated
with SNP
voting in the
General Election, as well as further dividing the Scottish party system, which was already split by attitudes towards independence.
The entire process whiffs of gerrymandering when calculations by the House of Commons library found that at the 2017
general election the Tories got one seat for every 43,018
votes nationally compared
with Labour's 49,152 per MP or Liberal Democrats» 197,665 and Green's 525,665.
Example: for the
general election, the Obama organization fielded 400 teams in the state of Missouri, supervised by paid campaign staff,
with each team covering 8 - 12
voting precincts and starting work weeks or months before November 4th.
With the 2015 UK general election David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a larger popular vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a greater number of seats to - d
With the 2015 UK
general election David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term
with a larger popular vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a greater number of seats to - d
with a larger popular
vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term
with a greater number of seats to - d
with a greater number of seats to - date.
But it appears that, depending on how the
votes fall, the party could end up approaching the next
General Election with a rather different policy platform to those upon which its previous electoral progress was built.
And Mayor Byron W. Brown, running for re-
election with only nominal competition in the
general election, was suddenly back on television, spending a total of $ 106,500 in little more than two weeks on ads, campaign literature and a get - out - the -
vote effort for himself and his fellow Democrats running for countywide office.
In the 2017
general election, Turley was re-elected
with 23,623
votes, a share of 55.5 %.
The 2015
general election saw a large
vote in Essex for the UK Independence Party (UKIP),
with its only MP, Douglas Carswell, retaining the seat of Clacton that he had won in a 2014 by -
election, and other strong performances, notably in Thurrock and Castle Point.
The Green party may not emerge from the
general election with more representation in parliament but it is on course to win its highest - ever
vote — and it will be Labour and the Liberal Democrats who feel its impact the most.
The day after the referendum, Cameron raised the issue of «English
votes for English laws»,
with Miliband criticising the move as a simplistic solution to a complex problem, eventually coming out in favour for a constitutional convention to be held after the
general election.
With nearly six weeks left before the
general election, Republican City Council candidate Dan Halloran opened up his Bayside campaign offices Saturday to get out the
vote.
Also, he he might have bought himself some goodwill
with fellow Democrats
with these endorsements, what everyone is really curious about is what Cuomo will do in the
general elections — particularly now that two Republican senators who
voted «yes» on same - sex marriage might lose their respective spots on the GOP ballot line in November.
The 2010 wave of the survey reported an even smaller proportion in terms of actual
vote choice,
with only 21 % of 2009 UKIP voters
voting UKIP at the 2010
general election.
At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic
voting machines (EVMs)
with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014
general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»
The governor reiterated his threat to drag the Legislature back to the Capitol before the November
general election — most likely in October, which is after the Sept. 14 primary — in hopes of getting the Assembly to take up the property tax cap bill passed
with bipartisan support this week by the Senate (eight Democrats
voted «no»).
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with the Westchester County Board of
Elections to vote in general elections; OR * Must be registered with the School District's Board of Registration, or have voted in a Scarsdale school election within the last fo
Elections to
vote in
general elections; OR * Must be registered with the School District's Board of Registration, or have voted in a Scarsdale school election within the last fo
elections; OR * Must be registered
with the School District's Board of Registration, or have
voted in a Scarsdale school
election within the last four years.
Turnout was higher than in a modern day
general election,
with approximately 72 % of the electorate
voting — 52 % to leave the EU and 48 % to remain.
This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between
elections has been four); the
vote to dissolve parliament before calling a
general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a
general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords
with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.
In Blackburn at the last
general election, most of the Muslim
vote was conjoined at the ballot box
with Jack Straw who was seen as the friend of Muslims, and as someone who understood their religious sensitivities.
For instance, Labour's overall share of the
vote increased in 2015, relative to the 2010
General Election, by 1.5 %, but the extent of the party's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning
with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147
votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted
votes.
[123] Boosted by his television fame, Johnson stood as the Conservative candidate for the constituency in the 2001
general election, winning
with a majority of 8,500
votes.
When 4.5 million people
vote UKIP at a
general election, and are rewarded
with a solitary MP, we should not be surprised if they conclude that Parliament is something done to them by an external elite.
Despite making some gains compared to the previous
general election, former party leader Nick Clegg lost Sheffield Hallam to Jared O'Mara of the Labour Party, and Zac Goldsmith of the Conservatives regained Richmond Park from Sarah Olney
with a very narrow majority of 45
votes.
Nearly a third of those who
voted Liberal Democrat at the
general election have gone to Labour,
with many of those saying the party's role in the coalition or their u-turn on tuition fees was a major factor in their decision.
When the Conservative Party last won a
general election, in 1992, it did so
with just under 42 % of the
vote, indicating that the David Cameron has, at best, restored the Conservatives to the levels of support achieved by the unpopular John Major administration.
This feat was repeated in the 2015
General Elections with 53,713
votes.
Plaintiff again states that in order to fully participate in this year's
general elections, she must find and deposit
with the 1st Defendant an amount of GHC2, 800,000.00 of which fees and or deposit of fees would be confiscated to the State should Plaintiff failed to secure at least 25 % of the presidential
votes and 12.5 %
votes in each constituency parliamentary
votes in the
general elections.
With votes still to be tallied in a close race, Foley said he more than likely lost to incumbent Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy in the
general election, but would not concede the race until all the
votes were counted.