Sentences with phrase «conservatives seats in parliament»

He told Good Morning Britain that Ukip had taken votes from all parties, but had «cost Conservatives seats in Parliament,» putting Ed Miliband closer to Number 10.

Not exact matches

Since May's election gamble backfired, the Conservatives have only a one - seat majority in parliament thanks to a tactical deal with Northern Irish unionists.

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.

The current endeavor by Tory backbenchers to repeal the Act is based on a simple calculation — most forecasts predict that the 2015 general elections will result in another hung Parliament, in which the joint seat share of the two dominant parties, Labour and the Conservatives, will be eroded even further.

The Conservatives are 2 to 1 on to have the largest number of seats in the new parliament, Labour 2 to 1 against.

May's Conservative Party needed to win 326 of 650 seats in the UK parliament to govern with a full majority.

While Callum Kerr is widely admired for his stint as MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (BRS) but he has the smallest majority in Scotland and the Conservatives are so confident that their candidate John Lamont gave up the safety net of a Scottish parliament seat to take on the general election campaign.

In fact the Conservatives were second in Edinburgh South West last time round and a large part of the seat is currently held in the Scottish Parliament by the ConservativeIn fact the Conservatives were second in Edinburgh South West last time round and a large part of the seat is currently held in the Scottish Parliament by the Conservativein Edinburgh South West last time round and a large part of the seat is currently held in the Scottish Parliament by the Conservativein the Scottish Parliament by the Conservatives.

For evidence, they might point to Eastleigh in the last parliament, when the Lib Dem hold steadied nerves in that party and contributed to the coalition going the distance — only for the Conservatives to then take the seat in 2015.

Again, while the SNP has gained many votes and seats, hundreds of thousands of Scottish Liberal Democratic, Conservative and Labour voters have no representation in Scotland — apparently denying a voice in parliament to the Scottish unionist position.

A shock exit poll in the 2017 general election suggests leader Jeremy Corbyn may have defied expectations and reduced the Conservative party's number of seats in parliament.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

The close Theresa May ally was rumoured to be in trouble after an exit poll showed the Conservatives falling short of the number of seats required to form a majority in parliament.

The party lost 13 constituency seats in the Scottish Parliament last night and won just three - leaving the Conservative Party as the official opposition in Holyrood

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

The Conservatives win the most seats, but fail to secure an overall Commons majority in an election result that produces Britain's first hung parliament for 36 years.

The party gained control of Plymouth, winning four seats in the city where two of the three members of parliament are Conservatives, showing Labour can do well outside the capital.

Conservative attempts at tackling this have so far proven unsuccessful: Ukip has held steady in the polls, topped May's European Parliament elections, and on Thursday Douglas Carswell won the party's first (elected) seat in parliament by 35 points over his former party, and nearly 50 more thParliament elections, and on Thursday Douglas Carswell won the party's first (elected) seat in parliament by 35 points over his former party, and nearly 50 more thparliament by 35 points over his former party, and nearly 50 more than Labour.

This Saturday sees an open primary in Macclesfield to select a Conservative candidate to succeed Sir Nicholas Winterton, who has represented the seat in Parliament since 1971.

The seat is unchanged for the next election, meaning that Richard requires a swing of 7 % to oust the Secretary of State for Scotland (in the equivalent seat at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, the Conservatives were only 891 votes behind Labour).

The Conservatives win a 12 - seat majority in parliament as Labour are almost wiped out by the SNP in Scotland and the Liberal Democrats suffer major losses.

Liddell - Grainger was elected to parliament at the 2001 general election for the safe Conservative seat of Bridgwater in Somerset, succeeding former cabinet minister Tom King.

The Conservatives did manage to gain a seat in Scotland, which ended the party's status as an «England - only» party in the prior parliament.

On an equal amount of votes — 34.5 % a piece — the Conservatives would have almost fifty seats more than Labour, Labour would need to have a lead of about four points over the Conservatives just to get the most seats in a hung Parliament.

In the 2010 General Election, the Conservatives won the most seats and votes, but only a minority of seats in parliamenIn the 2010 General Election, the Conservatives won the most seats and votes, but only a minority of seats in parliamenin parliament.

The Welsh Conservatives have one of four Welsh seats in the European Parliament, eight of forty Welsh seats in the UK Parliament and twelve of sixty seats in the National Assembly for Wales.

... and an increase in the number who are gay... It provoked much comment when David Gold became the first openly gay Conservative candidate in 2001; since then only three Conservative MPs have come out as gay, but Nick Boles (pictured) is set to enter Parliament as MP for the ultra-safe Grantham and Stamford and at least half a dozen other openly gay candidates are poised to win seats this time.

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.

However, the result was a hung parliament, in which the number of Conservative seats fell from 330 to 317, prompting her to broker a confidence and supply deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to support her minority government.

The election resulted in a hung parliament, no single party having an overall majority in the House of Commons, the Conservatives having the most seats but 20 short of a majority.

Tonight's remarkable exit poll figures predicts the Conservatives will be the largest party in a hung parliament, with 316 seats to Labour's 239.

At the election, Labour lost 91 seats in the House of Commons, but the Conservatives failed to achieve an overall majority, resulting in the first hung parliament since 1974.

It was also the last United Kingdom national election in which a party other than Labour or the Conservatives won the most seats until the 2014 European Parliament elections.

The election resulted in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party winning the largest number of seats.

He was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Solihull from 1983 to 2005, before losing his seat to Lorely Burt of the Liberal Democrats by a margin of 279 votes in the 2005 general election.

In February 1974 — the last instance of a hung parliament following a general election — Labour won 301 seats and the Conservatives 297, but the then Tory prime minister, Edward Heath, remained at Downing Street until the Monday after the election as he tried to form an alliance with the Liberals.

The Conservatives won the most seats in last week's general election, but not enough to secure an overall Commons majority, resulting in a hung Parliament.

She was elected as Member of Parliament for Newark - on - Trent in the 1997 general election, ousting Conservative MP Richard Alexander, who had held the seat since the 1979 general election.

The Conservatives more than doubled their number of seats in the Scottish Parliament elections, up to 31 from the 15 secured in 2011.

Andrea Jenkyns, a former music teacher and amateur opera singer, was a high - profile winner for the Conservatives, taking Ed Balls» Morley and Outwood seat after being prompted to run for parliament by the death of her father from MRSA contracted in hospital.

Boundary changes and the reduction in the number of MPs from 650 to 600 will see the Conservatives gain at least 20 more seats in parliament.

Proposals to trim seats in Commons to 600 will be dropped as Conservatives fear they will not get vote through parliament, Times reports

Men currently hold 70 % of the seats in the Houses of Parliament, and Maria Miller, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, said that proportion must not grow as boundaries are redrawn.

It is unique in being a seat that has a majority of ethnic minority voters, but a Conservative Member of Parliament - a sign that the party does not struggle to quite the same extent with Hindu voters as it does with Muslim or black voters.

In 2001 he became the youngest Conservative MP in parliament, winning the Tatton seat made vacant by independent Martin Bell who had ousted «cash for questions» Tory Neil Hamilton five years earlieIn 2001 he became the youngest Conservative MP in parliament, winning the Tatton seat made vacant by independent Martin Bell who had ousted «cash for questions» Tory Neil Hamilton five years earliein parliament, winning the Tatton seat made vacant by independent Martin Bell who had ousted «cash for questions» Tory Neil Hamilton five years earlier.

In 1974, Lawson was elected a member of parliament for the Conservative party where he held a seat until 1992.

I'd assumed Monckton had at some time held a seat in the British parliament for the Conservative Party (he hasn't).

In 2011, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the former Liberal Member of Parliament for Etobicoke Centre, lost his seat to Conservative candidate Ted Opitz by a mere 26 votes.