Sentences with phrase «with tactical voting»

Maybe closer to the election the Liberal Democrats will benefit from voters focusing more on the specific situation in their constituency, with tactical voting and incumbency effects kicking in.

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

But there is one problem with this system: It allows to skew the system with tactical voting.

Not exact matches

The problem with the second bullet point is that it's a good idea in theory but not usable in practice for two different reasons: (1) various cognitive biases would counteract your education from working when populist politically aligns with someone; (2) and conscious tactical choices would ensure that even those who are able to work around cognitive biases would still vote for that populist if they are aligned.

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.

The writing was on the wall for the chief secretary to the Treasury, who even with help from some tactical voting unionists just wasn't able to cobble together anything like the support he needed to stay in Westminster.

A secretive group is beginning campaigning in Scotland this week with a simple mission: stopping the SNP by encouraging tactical voting.

Faced with a surge of SNP support that threatens to have a decisive impact on the makeup of the next government, Scotland - always a part of the UK ripe for this sort of thing - has seen an outbreak of tactical voting in recent weeks.

In both seats there appears to have been significant tactical voting, with the Liberal Democrats likely benefiting from Conservative defectors.

A number of methods of tactical or strategic voting exist that can be used in STV elections, but much less so than with First Past the Post.

If anti-Conservative tactical voting takes place then this has the potential to reduce the Conservatives working majority to 73 seats which I am sure Theresa May would still be very happy with!

He saw his vote drop by 18 % as the Conservative chris Davies took the seat, with Labour also well up as the tradition of tactical voting in Brecon and Radnorshire broke down.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

«To be clear: I am not urging tactical voting or some anti-Tory alliance; I am urging that, as part of this election campaign, we create the capacity for the people to know exactly what the choices are; and elect as many MPs as possible with an open mind on this issue who are prepared to vote according to the quality of the deal and the interests of the British people.»

Hence (still with the assumption of having 3 voters or more), Gibbard's theorem implies that as soon as there are 3 candidates or more, MJ is susceptible to tactical voting.

The next election will see a big turnout by Labour and Conservative supporters and where Liberal Democrat MP's do survive it will be solely due to tactical voting, UKIP could even make a breakthrough in a couple of seats but I think Labour will still win, so it will be more strongly toward a 2 party system but with the strongest 4th party performance in UK history.

Yet while tactical voting — casting one's vote for a second - choice candidate with a better chance of winning than one's first choice — can be both logical and desirable in plenty of ways, it is itself a second - best use of the right to vote.

Today the cabinet appeared to be divided over tactical voting, with Ed Balls and Peter Hain openly advocating it, but other senior ministers such as Alistair Darling and Lord Mandelson much cooler.

Scholarly research conclude that IRV is one of the less - manipulable voting methods, with theorist Nicolaus Tideman noting that, «alternative vote is quite resistant to strategy» [45] and Australian political analyst Antony Green dismissing suggestions of tactical voting.

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.

With 4,770 Liberal Democrat votes «wasted», we are working to secure a tactical vote in order to gain the seat.

«There may well be a rise in tactical voting this May with Unionist Tory voters switching to Labour to keep the SNP out» I would disagree, everything I am hearing points to the opposite with tory voters giving their FPTP vote to who ever can oust Labour if the tories are not in contention.

In summary, Brake retained quite a lot of tactical votes from naturally Labour areas, and many of those he didn't retain went over to UKIP, with UKIP also sapping some Tory votes from the leafier areas.

With three - way battle between Ukip, Labour and Tories too close to call, former Lib Dem peer urges tactical vote for Labour's Scobie to keep Farage and Tories out

Clearly, considerable tactical voting was deployed to defeat the Tories, together with reorganised wards and boundaries leading people to rethink who deserved their vote.