Sentences with phrase «conservative landslide»

Politics: Historically this used to be the safest Labour seat in Leicester (in the 1983 Conservative landslide it was the only one to remain in Labour hands).

A surging LibDem / SDP vote in 1983 turned out to be perfectly compatible with a Conservative landslide.

Their corrupt and cowardly party deserves oblivion, but even a Conservative landslide can not guarantee this.

They believe that one last big campaign on the old issues will bring a Conservative landslide.

«The probable Conservative landslide is now more securely etched onto the electoral canvas,» said ICM.

Despite initial optimism and the professional campaign run by Neil Kinnock, the election brought only twenty additional seats for Labour from the 1983 Conservative landslide.

It was the collapse of the Liberal party that led to the Conservative landslide.

Lord Lyell was first elected to Parliament in the Conservative landslide of 1979, when he won Hemel Hempstead from Labour.

We similarly use the proportion of poll respondents who think that there will be a Conservative landslide / the Conservatives will win more than 100 seats, for the probability of a Conservative landslide.

For the probability of a Conservative landslide, we use the combined prices PredictIt that the Conservatives will win 370 - 379 seats, 380 - 389 seats, and 390 or more seats.

Not exact matches

(One explanation for why pollsters failed to predict Cameron's landslide victory last year was because «Brintroverts» refused to admit they intended to vote Conservative, an uncool choice in everyday conversation.)

But with polls showing Kenney's United Conservatives on the path toward landslide victory in 2019, the NDP needs some massive changes in the next 12 months to make Albertans fall in love with them all over again.

The previous general election was held in 2001, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a landslide victory, picking up 74 of a possible 83 seats in the Alberta legislature.

The 2008 election was a landslide win for the Premier Ed Stelmach and the Progressive Conservative Party.

General election 1945Clement Atlee's landslide victory in July 1945 came as a complete surprise to the Conservatives who were hoping to capitalise on Winston Churchill's hugely successful period as Britain's wartime coalition prime minister.

It has led to many rebellions, numerous defections, the downfall of Thatcher, and partly accounts for the Conservatives» landslide defeat in 1997.

Back in the late 90s, shortly after the Scottish Tories were wiped out in the 1997 Labour landslide, Sir Malcolm Rifkind used to make a little speech in which he claimed that up to 40 % of Scots voters were potential Conservatives.

He addresses a number of myths, not least that which became a convenient excuse for the Conservatives, defeated in the landslide election of 1945, that their party organisation had atrophied during the war whilst Labour's had strengthened.

In third place is a report on a new poll which showed that the Labour candidate for mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was on course for a landslide win over his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith.

The «sweetest victory» of the Conservatives, as David Cameron put it on May 8th, and the sweeping landslide victory of the SNP, winning all but three of the Scottish seats, were indeed shocking wake - up calls for all those concerned about British politics.

It won't be the landslide they were hoping for but the Conservatives will get the majority they need

By then I had accepted the prevailing wisdom that the Conservatives would win a landslide victory, providing them with a three - figure majority in the Commons.

Our analysis gives just a 1 % chance of the Conservatives winning a 100 + landslide majority.

Rep. Scott Garrett, a staunch conservative from northern New Jersey, faces a fresh challenge from a former speechwriter to Bill Clinton for a seat held by Republicans since Reagan's first landslide.

If the Conservatives look like they are going to do well then it remains a plausible line for us to say that we're the only party that can protect Scotland from the effects of a Tory landslide.»

John Curtice has just indicated that Labour's lead is 1 %, which matches the movement from Blair's landslide in 1997 to Hague's Conservatives in 1998.

Looking at the 55 + age group, the Conservatives had higher support than Labour, in every election except the Labour landslide of 1997.

Its Wednesday article, which was bylined «Telegraph Comment Desk», read: «A lot of people, both in the Labour Party and outside it, think [Corbyn's leadership] would be dreadful for Labour, the sort of political disaster the party last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot's Left - wing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

In a move that may be unconnected to the modest trimming of the Tory lead in national opinion polls the Conservative Party is «quietly withdrawing resources from some «landslide» seats to maximise David Cameron's chances of winning a workable majority.»

DS19 was wound up three months after the 1983 election, at which Heseltine was widely credited with helping the Conservatives achieve a landslide victory.

Combined with a Conservative opposition that had yet to organise effectively under William Hague, and the continuing popularity of Blair, Labour went on to win the 2001 election with a similar majority, dubbed the «quiet landslide» by the media.

That is the sort of vote the Conservatives need to have a chance of winning a landslide, not a working majority.

It has been a good year electorally for UKIP, since it is the first party other than Labour and the Conservatives to come first in a national election — in this case for the European Parliament — since the Liberal landslide of 1906.

The previous record was in 1945 when the Conservatives went down to their landslide defeat at the hands of their wartime coalition partners, the Labour Party.

There will be a vacant state Senate seat in the Bronx, after conservative Democratic Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. won a three - way NYC Council primary by a landslide.

The Conservative Party, along with a range of right - leaning groups such as the Rifle And Pistol Association and abortion opponents, opposed the convention referendum, which was soundly rejected in a landslide by voters.

However, in 2005, Democrat Byron Brown was elected the city's first African - American mayor in a landslide (64 % — 27 %) over Republican Kevin Helfer, who ran on a conservative platform.

Using different methods, pollsters are divided about the extent of the Conservative lead, but they all show the gap with Labour shrinking, making the landslide Mrs. May hoped for unlikely and even, for at least one polling company, raising the possibility of a hung Parliament.

In an interview on the BBC's World This Weekend, Blair said that if Theresa May won a landslide, as the polls currently suggest, the Conservatives would read it as a mandate for «Brexit at any costs» — and voters concerned about the risks of leaving the EU should press every candidate to answer whether they had an open mind about whether the final deal was in Britain's interests.

While it might be expected that the party would support a lifelong member and landslide - winning candidate, Democrats waited until after Cuomo had garnered support from the state Conservative Party, business coalitions and even tea party groups — entities more accustomed to blasting Democrats than helping them.

Without a serious, well - funded, conservative candidate, Bishop is just going to win in a landslide like he did in the debacles of previous years.

Opinion polls originally predicted a huge landslide victory for the Conservative Party and May aimed to substantially increase her party's slim majority.

Tony Blair originally formed the Blair ministry in May 1997 after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government following the resignation of the previous Prime Minister, John Major of the Conservative Party, as a result of the Labour Party's landslide victory at the 1997 general election.

Sir John was ousted from power in the massive 1997 landslide that swept Tony Blair and New Labour to power, leaving the Conservatives out of government for 13 years.

Like May managed to do in Copeland, the Conservatives gained a seat in a by - election as a governing party en route to Thatcher's landslide win in 1983.

Johnson was rewarded with an electoral landslide in 1964 against conservative Barry Goldwater, which broke the decades - long control of Congress by the Conservativconservative Barry Goldwater, which broke the decades - long control of Congress by the ConservativeConservative coalition.

The day after Labour's landslide election victory John Major told the crowds outside Downing Street that he was to stand down as leader of the Conservative Party.

The Conservatives were returned by a third landslide victory with a comfortable majority, down slightly on 1983 with a swing of 1.5 % towards Labour.

The Conservative party refused to confirm the figure, which is similar to the membership figure of just under 180,000 claimed by the Labour party — fewer than half the number of members it attracted when it won a landslide victory in 1997.

Cuomo won a landslide victory last month running on a fiscally conservative platform that unequivocally promised no tax increases while fellow liberal Democrat Silver has long supported higher taxes and increased social spending.