Sentences with phrase «conservative parliamentary seat»

I didn't look at them until the last one — they were for his Conservative parliamentary seat campaign.

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The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

Manchester East 1906In the space of two months, Conservative Arthur Balfour not only lost his office as prime minister, he also lost his parliamentary seat.

On these figures, the 325th MP, counting in from left or right, will represent Labour, but only just: a four - seat swing from Labour (or the SNP) to the Lib Dems, Conservatives or UKIP would give the median parliamentary seat to the Liberal Democrats.

The equalisation of the electorates of parliamentary constituencies favours the Conservative party collectively, but is opposed by many individual Tory MPs who face losing their seats.

Blogs do best when they cover subjects whose minutiae are ignored by the mainstream media, as was true on the right during the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, and more recently the coverage of selections for individual parliamentary seats.

But we forgot that the Tories remain the party with the largest number of votes and strongest parliamentary representation in the country, and that the SNP lost more seats to the Conservatives than to anyone.

This will create a single political entity with one dominant political objective — winning the Crawley Parliamentary seat for the Conservatives.

In Mid-Devon the Tories moved into overall control, gaining four seats, while Solihull - an extremely close parliamentary seat between the two parties - was another Conservative gain.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

Instead, Cameron's Conservatives have become the first incumbent governing party since 1983 to increase their share of parliamentary seats.

Currently, opinion polls suggest the Conservatives will win a maximum of 14 % in the Parliamentary election, which would cost them two or three seats, and probably push them into fourth place.

The Welsh Conservatives have been quite successful in recovering from the defeat of 1997, regaining three Parliamentary seats in 2005, and coming close in another three.

Instead, David Cameron's Conservative Party defied all predictions to win an outright parliamentary majority, securing 331 out of 650 seats.

The seat, which borders Gordon Brown's parliamentary constituency, was gained by the Lib Dems (from Labour) at a by - election in 2005, where the Conservatives remained in fourth place.

The Scottish Parliamentary results produced a net loss of one seat for the Conservatives, due to a fall in their share of the list vote.

The United Kingdom Parliamentary boundary changes in Scotland, in 2005, were harmful to the Party, breaking up two of the Conservatives» best prospects, Edinburgh Pentlands, and Ayr, with the result that the Scottish Conservatives only won one seat in 2005.

Today, Cllr Leah Fraser, the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Wallasey, calls for a distinction between immediate target seats and more medium term targets.

In November 2013, Philp was selected to be the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Croydon South, the seat was held by the Conservative MP Richard Ottaway, who was retiring at the next general election.

A representative survey for CND, seen by the NS, shows that Labour's parliamentary candidates - from traditionally safe seats to unwinnable Conservative strongholds through to some of the most vulnerable of Labour's target seats - are overwhelmingly against maintaining the nuclear deterrent when it comes up for renewal.

[2] The Conservatives gained most votes in four of the six parliamentary seats, the Liberal Democrats coming first in Cheltenham and UKIP in the Forest of Dean.

«Under a recently announced scheme, low - income Conservative parliamentary candidates could be offered bursaries of up to # 25,000 to help them win their seats.

In June 2008 he was selected to be the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for the seat of Cannock Chase.

I managed to speak to almost half of the 80 candidates standing in those Conservative seats we were targeting... I have also spoken to many parliamentary colleagues and other stakeholders in the Labour party.

«Dianne Hayter, chairman of Labour's National Executive Committee, said: «We do not believe a parliamentary by - election should be held at taxpayers» expense to resolve tensions at the top of the Conservative Party... She claimed that Mr Davis had done a deal with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who said last week that his party would not contest the by - election, and never intended to put his seat at risk.»

Continue reading «Lots of councillors... lots of lawyers... lots of people who have fought for their seats more than once... meet the next parliamentary Conservative party»»

The parliamentary candidate for Broxtowe in 2001 and a candidate for the European Parliament in the East Midlands in both 1999 and 2004, Pauline was selected for this seat in June 2006 and will defend a notional Conservative majority of 5,329.

The East of England region is generally seen to be good territory for the Conservatives in Westminster terms, with the Tories winning 52 of its 58 Parliamentary seats under the first past the post system in 2010.

Danny suggested a referendum on the most modest form of electoral reform - the Alternative Vote (AV), which allowed candidates to be ranked in preference order and required MPs to secure 50 per cent of the vote to be elected - linked to Lib Dem support for the Conservatives» own reform plan, which was to reduce the number of parliamentary seats and to remove Labour over-representation.

Evans had joined the Tory Party in 1968, but despite his efforts to be accepted as a candidate, and his hard work for the St Albans Conservative Association, it was a further 18 years before he was invited to contest a parliamentary seat.

With its worst electoral performance since 1918, the Labour vote fell by over 3,000,000 votes from 1979 and this accounted for both a national swing of almost 4 % towards the Conservatives and their larger parliamentary majority of 144 seats, even though the Conservative Party's total vote fell by almost 700,000.

Boris Johnson could «get away» with standing for a Parliamentary seat in the capital at the 2015 general election during his last year as London mayor, said a former Conservative MP.

Lib Dems are resigned to losing parliamentary seats in less prosperous parts of the country, where the spending cuts of the past years have hit hardest, but had hoped to hold the line in wealthier places where their coalition with the Conservatives is less controversial.

The Conservative council leader, Geoff Roberts, saw the results as a sign they could take the parliamentary seat in the next general election, while Labour blamed their defeats on national issues.

The Conservatives have won 331 seats, securing a parliamentary majority of 12 after all 650 constituencies declared.

In the 1990s the Liberal Democrats enjoyed success at a local level here, but it never translated into Parliamentary strength and following a difficult period of Liberal Democrat - Conservative control of Hackney council they largely collapsed, leaving every council seat in this ward in the hands of Labour.

Burley had only a short Parliamentary career, standing down in 2015 following criticism for attending a stag party where guests dressed in Nazi uniform, but the Conservatives managed to hold onto the seat without him in 2015.

Most likely at the General Election - Labour and the Liberal Democrats will lose every single seat in the South of England outside London and Labour will pickup seats from the Liberal Democrats in the rest of England, and will probably mostly hold their position in Scotland and Wales leaving a Conservative parliamentary party in the House of Commons with a similar number of seats to those Labour had in 1987 and Labour with a similar majority to now, and Nick Clegg probably just hanging on as leader because there is no obvious replacement.

Patrick Hennessey, the newspaper's political editor, has blogged this: «The true depth of the anger felt by senior Tories at the decision by David Davis to resign his parliamentary seat and fight a by - election is revealed publicly for the first time in The Sunday Telegraph tomorrow when a leading Conservative breaks cover and directly criticises the former shadow home secretary.»