Sentences with phrase «worst general election result»

After all, three years after that defeat, the party collapsed to its worst general election result since 1906.

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«If the by - election results are bad and everyone begins to write that she shouldn't hold a general election, that's when she might hold one.

The British general election result came at the worst possible time for the polling industry.Over...

Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4.5 %.

European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.

Keith was deeply disappointed by the result in his city, which bodes very badly for Labour in next year's general election.

In the case of this poll therefore, what we don't know is how people would have answered a question saying how would you vote at a general election if Gordon Brown were still leader — given his current popularity, mentioning his name in the question may have produced worse results.

The last time most of these council seats were contested was on the same day as the general election, when Labour slumped to its second worst post-war result.

[40] However, the Tories were re-elected and Labour suffered its worst postwar general election result, only narrowly bettering the SDP - Liberal Alliance in terms of votes, though winning considerably more seats.

A montage of some of the key moments as results came through in the General Election in Wales - which was a good night for the Conservatives and a bad one for the Liberal Democrats.

After the shock result of the UK's 2015 General Election, one could forgive Labour and Conservative supporters for thinking that things could hardly get worse for the former party, or better for the latter.

«You overlay that with the lousy system of running elections in general — which is, voter registration laws are cumbersome, we have a closed primary system, getting on the ballot is difficult — and as a result New York has anemic voter turnout, one of the worst in the country.»

Newsnight looks at why published polls ahead of the general election proved to be a bad prediction of the results.