The Conservatives won on a wafer thin majority in 2010 and the ousted Labour MP Nick Palmer attempted a return in 2015, only to see the Tory majority grow to eight percent.. (ukpollingreport.co.uk)
In Croydon Central, Barwell had been sitting on a wafer thin majority of just 165 - and in 2016 he published a book about «how to win a marginal seat». (totalpolitics.com)
Ms Rudd would come up against several hurdles as a prominent Remainer as well as having only a wafer thin majority of 346 in her south coast constituency of Hastings. (thesun.co.uk)