Sentence examples for an overall swing from inspiring English sources

The result, announced just after 01 45 GMT, saw an overall swing of 8% from the Conservatives to Labour with Mr Reed winning by a margin of almost 12,000 votes.

Overall, swing states have higher unemployment than the nation as a whole; but elections generally turn on the rate of change, not the level, and by that criterion things weren't clear.

In the Labour-held constituencies, the overall swing to the SNP was 25.4%.

The big picture in the English battleground, however, was of little change – in line with the overall swing.

The overall swing from Scottish Labour to the SNP was almost 25%, that's the same sort of movement that used to terrify John Major's Tories in mid-term byelections, but at a general election.

Partisan newspapers of any shade have little effect on their readers' perceptions of parties or leaders, and the overall swing to Labour among those who read such papers is no different from that among those who don't.

The swing direction similarity is used to reflect the deviation degree of the overall swing directions between the i th and j th generator angle trajectories.

Whether an overall O-swing percentage is high or low in a given year makes no difference, Kutscher said.

Golfers get 1 point for every time they hit the ball with a club, which means that the player who can get the ball into every hole with the fewest overall swings (golf club hits) will win.

Anthony Wells, the polling expert from YouGov, has calculated that on current boundaries the Conservatives need a lead of 11.1% to win an overall majority on a uniform swing.

Moreover, to win an overall majority, Labour needs a swing of 4.3%, which is higher than it has achieved in any election since 1945.