Friday 21 July 2023 08:05, UK Conservatives Greg Hands This is a modal window. Video Unavailable Technical details : This video is currently unavailable The Conservatives lost two of the three by-elections being contested and narrowly held on to Boris Johnson's former constituency. ...
Politicians often like to play down opinion polls saying they prefer real votes in real ballot boxes. That is exactly what parliamentary by-elections are. The three results will be scrutinised closely as they come in on Friday, including on Sky News. They will give a tr...
Paul's (@LongestBallot) December 22, 2023 It’s a rule of thumb in political journalism that byelections generally don’t have any wider lessons. But the Monday byelection in Toronto-St. Paul’s might be different if only for the fact that a Liberal loss in the riding would be jaw-...
— Longest Ballot Committee: Toronto—St. Paul's (@LongestBallot)December 22, 2023 It’s a rule of thumb in political journalism that byelections generally don’t have any wider lessons. But theMonday byelection in Toronto-St. Paul’smight be different if only for the fact that a Liberal...
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been urged to hold by-elections so that there can be a test run for the 2023 general elections which are likely to be conducted under COVID-19 restrictions. This was said yesterday by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) in a statement wh...
Tory optimists say it is unwise to extrapolate from by-election results. Turnout is poor: among the 110 by-elections since 1992 just 43% of the constituency electorate have shown up, on average, compared with 64% for general elections. Of the ...
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Presumably, Saskatchewan sticks withcompeting campaignsthat remain stuck in a cycle where they must also compete for attention with the American presidential vote because of the myth that we’re still largely an agricultural province and elections cannot be scheduled during harvest or seeding....
Assembly by -elections candidates, and for the wider electorate in the future of Zimbabwe. While the results may shed some light on the extent of Zimbabwe's electoral realignment, political analysts argue for caution against assigning too much significance to the outcomes of by-elections, which ...
Jim, a lot of people getting very excited about this, a lot of very hyperbolic language. I’ve been struck particularly by elections expert Sir John Curtice saying that Labour could now be on course for a bigger landslide than 1997 on the basis of these by-election wins. What do you ...