Sentences with phrase «years local election results»

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In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.

There has been much debate as to whether this year's local elections represented a good or bad result for Labour.

The resulting general election year PNS then provided a robust baseline for the calculation of the PNS in the local elections that were held during the course of the subsequent parliament.

But there are a number of problems with these observations as a way of looking at the results of this year's local elections.

This year, however, we will still be reliant on the baseline provided by the 2015 local elections, and even here that baseline can only be made directly for the results outside London.

For, judging by this year's local election results, Labour is now in dire straits in his own seat, Norwich South — while the Green Party is in pole position to gain the seat.

The following graph shows results for those local elections, like this year's, that were held just a year after a general election.

Two years ago I developed a simple statistical model that tries to predict the outcome of general elections from local election results.

In 1985 the Labour - Conservative local election lead was almost the same as this year's results (39 - 32), but the Conservatives won the 1987 general election 38 - 32.

That, however, is hyperbole, as local government results, last year's Holyrood elections and general election polling clearly show the Conservatives rather better placed to do that.

All this is consistent with European, local and by - election results this year.

Results came in for a host of local level races and state government special elections across New York in the off - cycle year.

He has the worst personal poll ratings of any opposition leader in living memory, Labour have been consistently behind in the polls since he took over, and in May we had the worst local election results of any opposition party in 40 years.

Gordon Brown has responded to Labour's worst local election results for 40 years by pledging to «take the fight» to the Conservatives.

He'd be better off getting his head down, winning some respectable local election results, giving the impression of upwards movement, and then talking up the chance of defections in a couple of years.

That's about average for off - year local elections, way short of predictions from advocates of single - member districts, who had argued that replacing multi-member districts with one - on - one contests voters would result in better - known candidates and greater voter participation.

Local election results will also inform the political make - up of LGA boards and chairs for the next political year, starting in September.

However, her slick performance on the podium at the Ukip manifesto launch belies a particularly high - profile gaffe in the wake of last year's local election results when she blamed London's «more media - savvy and educated» population for the party's lack of success in the capital.

One of the problems with the Bristol local election results in the past has been their bizarre arrangement of having 2 member wards on a 3 year cycle.

So far as the English Local Elections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally comparedElections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally comparedelections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally compared to 2003.

create graphs (using art supplies, software, or a free and easy - to - use online graph - making tool) to show the results of this years local, state, and / or national elections.

Split Decision: Two Incumbents Losing in Denver School Board Elections, Two Supporters of District Policies Prevail (Chalkbeat) Quotes Martin West: «There are signs in the national election results this week that Democrats may make significant headway at the state and local level next year when many more seats are in play, and that typically makes it harder to pursue the traditional reform agenda.