Sentences with phrase «won by each party»

Without boundary changes this is simply the share of seats up that were won by the party minus the share they were defending (i.e. won four years ago).

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.

Percentage of total seats available won by each party in English local elections from 2012 to 2015.

The forecasting model works by combining the number of seats won by parties in the previous election with vote intentions data from polls conducted six months prior to the election — in this case the data is from November 2014.

Although the Irish electoral system is classified as a proportional electoral system, the proportion of seats won by parties will not measure up exactly to their actual share of the first preference votes, mainly because geography has a very significant impact here.

This share of the vote was down on the 14.7 % vote share won by the party at the 2009 Local Elections.

But she secured a full 56 more seats than Labour, while swelling the Conservative vote to the second highest won by any party in history — beaten only by John Major in 1992.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

``... This impression that people are saying that because there has been an election won by another party and the Electoral Commission has declared them as winners does not mean that this government should stop functioning all together and there should be a total shut down.

Lord Tebbit told today's Telegraph that UK elections «are won by the party that gets its own traditional supporters out and discourages those of the other parties from doing the same».

[42] All of Scotland's 59 seats were won by the parties that won them at the 2005 election, with Labour regaining the two seats they lost in by - elections since 2005.

* assuming a voting system in which % of seats won by each party is equal to % of total UK votes won ^ the FPTP factor is the % difference between % of votes and % of seats

The best bellwether seats in the country now are Dartford and Chorley which have both been won by the party that won the general election since 1964.

Bellwether seats: these are the seats that, historically, have always been won by the party that went on to form the government.

Politics: Loughborough is a key marginal, having been won by the party that received the most seats at every general election since February 1974.

It has been a bellwether seat since October 1974, won by the party that won the most seats at each general election.

Not exact matches

Given the time and resources swallowed up by healthcare (not to mention pushback on the Russia investigation), the Republican party is desperate for a win, so pressuring holdouts on tax reform could come easier.

Right behind them on 19 per cent is the pro-unionist party Ciudadanos, led in Catalonia by the telegenic Ines Arrimadas who has pledged to unravel the separatist movement if her party wins.

Lipinski's win is a blow to the anti-Trump resistance, which has been fueled by energy from the party's base, and it's a relief for the dwindling Blue Dog Coalition of conservative House Democrats, which hopes to make a comeback this year.

What I mean by this is that it can be very difficult to find solutions where both parties in a negotiation «win.»

Trump vowed at his rally that he would win Washington state, even though the state tends to support Democrats and that party's nominee, Hillary Clinton, leads by large margins in opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

Netizens just can't seem to work out why Li, who had returned Tuesday to her hometown of Hubei following her second Grand Slam win, wouldn't at least feign some type of excitement when being given a check for such a huge amount by Hubei Communist Party chief Li Hongzhong.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

The party likely needs to win the seat currently held by outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake if it has any chance of winning a Senate majority.

The rebels won the British parliamentary vote by 307 to 294 votes, a majority of 13, after they received support from the Labour Party, a generally pro-European group accused by Cameron of «rank opportunism».

To prevent this, set clear - cut, quantifiable criteria for who wins — and ensure that the tallying of sales reps» achievements is done by an impartial party.

However, wins by established parties in each country eased populist fears.

Rachline reiterated that if the party led by Marine Le Pen wins the presidential election, it will seek a new relationship with the EU.

He's betting that he can broaden his Tea Party following by winning over social conservatives, and use a victory in Iowa — where he's in a virtual dead heat with Donald Trump in a new Des Moines Register / Bloomberg poll released Wednesday — as a springboard to success in South Carolina.

Their presidential election — which opposed Norbert Hofer of the Austrian Freedom Party to Alexander van der Bellen from the Greens and was only very narrowly won by van der Bellen — was declared invalid by the Austrian Constitutional Court and will have to take place a second time.

During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Wikileaks published internal emails of top Democratic Party officials, which the agencies said were hacked by Moscow as part of a coordinated influence campaign to help Republican Donald Trump win the presidency.

Even when voters seek redress for high unemployment or inflation, it's based on buying into a short term narrative that is successfully sold by the winning party, not previous experience.

Another tab had a history of election results in my district by party win.

MAY 2, 2011: Harper's Conservative party, having been endorsed by the Globe and the Post, wins a majority government, as Jack Layton's NDP surges to opposition status.

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

The Prime Minister won his job by earning the loyalty of the old Reform party even though he used to be Preston Manning's most persistent internal critic.

Barring a political earthquake, it is expected the Conservative Party candidate will win the by - election in this sprawling southeast Alberta riding with a large Mormon community and a strong social conservative base.

The opposition Wildrose had hoped to win at least two of the by - elections, but were upstaged by the NDP in Edmonton - Whitemud and an insurgent Alberta Party in Calgary - Elbow.

With national elections due to take place during the first half of 2018, Five Star's failure to win in a region seen as one of its strongholds was characterized by some commentators as evidence the party's appeal had peaked.

Mr. Kenney is reportedly backed by a cadre of federal Conservative strategists and insiders, including former Reform Party and Wildrose Party campaign strategist Tom Flanagan, who told CBC that the group discussed whether «he could win the PC leadership then negotiate a merger [with Wildrose].»

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Although Mr. Dent did not win the by - election, the strong showing for the NDP foreshadowed that party's first federal electoral win in Alberta two year's later when Ross Harvey was elected in Edmonton - East.

This represented a significant improvement from the last election in 2004, where the Party (led at the time by Premier Ralph Klein) won 62 seats and 47 percent of the vote.

We have been a leader in helping candidates accept bitcoin, beginning in 2012 with New Hampshire Representative Mark Warden's winning re-election campaign and followed by 2012 Congressional Candidate Eric Olson in North Dakota and the national Libertarian Party.

No matter who wins, it's another sure sign of shifting political lines, in which political parties are shaped less by policy than identity.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

The one that grabbed me was «The Hair Styles of Mieczyslaw Rakowski,» by Leopold Tyrmand, about the way this communist official's personal appearance changed from era to era, often quite subtly, the better to fit the most - winning image for a party official at the particular time.

The Democrats» present failure stems from their presumption that on economic issues they win by default, that non-wealthy voters know their own material interests» those historically opposed or left unaddressed by Republicans» and do not require instruction or reminding as to which party is on their side.

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.

Not surprisingly, Jackson was feared by the power brokers of his own party, who were hopeful he could bring new voters to the Democratic party but terrified that he might actually win the nomination for or the actual presidency.