Sentences with phrase «worst election performance»

We won 100 fewer seats than them: our worst election performance in almost three decades.

Not exact matches

Reno recalls sharing his worries about pro-life politics and the possible bad performance of the Republican Party in upcoming 2006 elections.

There's no doubt that the Conservatives will rate their performance in the local elections as a good one, or at least not as bad as it might have been.

It provides a single, seemingly straightforward measure of party performance that can tell us not only how well or badly a party has done as compared with four years ago, but also as compared with any previous local elections for which a PNS is available — even though the places in which local elections are held varies considerably from one year to the next.

A month ago, Labour had one of its worst ever performances in the local elections, pointing to disaster for Corbyn in Thursday's general election.

Moreover, in terms of nationwide share of the vote, it was one of the worst local election performances since the party's formation.

If Clegg manages to significantly outperform the worst predictions for the party's general election performance, he may in the process be able to redeem his own performance in government and his project of pulling the party centrewards.

That would be the party's worst performance in a general election since the 1930s.

Balls used his concession speech to signal his deep disappointment at Labour's national performance, with the party enduring its worst election night since 1987:

Just look back to 2009, when Gordon Brown's performance in the European elections was so bad it triggered a wave of resignations that nearly toppled him.

Clegg resigned after the party's worst performance in a general election since it was formed from the merger of the Liberal party and the Social Democratic party in 1988.

In summary, the local election performance from Labour this year is not the unprecedented disaster Corbyn's opponents have claimed — others have done worse — but neither is it in any way positive news.

It is not, as some of Corbyn's detractors have claimed, the worst local election performance for decades (Ed Miliband's Labour did a little worse in 2011 and William Hague did significantly worse for the Tories in 1998) but it is the sort of local election performance heralding failure at the next general election.

This was the worst performance permanence of the party in a presidential election.

Despite fears that Labour could be on course for its worst general election performance since 1935, Gwynne insisted the party was not simply fighting a defensive campaign, but was determined to gain seats.

Nick Clegg resigned as Lib Dem leader after the party's worst performance in a general election since its formation.

I'd quite agree that its relative bad performance compared to the early years was spun as failure, and that was what mattered in the election, but the economy then did worse when the next lot took over.

With the Assembly Elections in May representing Labour's worst performance at the polls in Wales since the First World War there was a realistic opportunity for the Welsh Conservatives to consider entering a coalition Government.

Labour's European election performances under New Labour were even worse.