Sentences with phrase «labour seats»

UKIP polled more votes than the Labour party in the Wakefield district, bearing in mind the Wakefield district have some of the safest Labour seats in the country this is a remarkable achievement by UKIP and should be a concern to Labour and Conservative.

The consolation for the Liberal Democrats is that relatively few people in these seats realise they are in a Lab / LD marginal — if the party can successfully position themselves as THE party to beat Labour in those seats, something they have great experience in doing, they could do far better in those seats and start gaining Labour seats to balance losses to the Tories.

That pattern was repeated in much of England — higher turnouts and a growing population in Tory seats, as against a contracting population and low turnout in many Labour seats.

Politics: Traditionally this was a solid Labour area, the seat and its predecessors had all been reliable Labour seats since the war.

However, they will make some progress, boosting their representation by taking 6 - 10 Labour seats and reducing the majorities for most of Labour's Scottish MPs.

Edgbaston used to be a safe Tory seat, Cannock and Nuneaton safe Labour seats.

My point is if Cameron is as confident as he claims that he will get an overall majority he should be spending much of his time visiting marginal Labour seats.

its corbyn or destruction for labour and every single new labour idiot he appoints to his shadow cabinet will cost labour seats every time they open their mouths so it would be a good idea not to appoint any.

The increase in the Plaid vote was in the traditionally Labour areas, hence why 6 safe Labour seats are now marginals.

The Times reports today that «the Liberal Democrats are to focus their general election campaign on Labour seats in an historic shift that could help David Cameron.»

To win at all, the Tories have to capture Labour seats - still an immensely difficult task.»

Unlike the other three Labour seats in the region Exeter does not have a strong history of Labour representation - prior to 1997 it had only ever been won once by Labour, by Gwyneth Dunwoody in their 1966 landslide.

Dalek, I would consider this to be one of the most vulnerable Labour seats.

If the SNP don't win here they won't gain any more than 2 or 3 Labour seats.

Labour has ruled out any progressive alliances and the Green party are also standing candidates in marginal Labour seats.

I suspect that they will win some of the Labour seats on their target list (and I listed the top 50 in that blog post last summer), but I'm not convinced that there will be that many: their position on Iraq marked them out from the other two parties at the last election, leading them to the high water mark they reached - but Iraq will not be an issue next year and it is hard to see which message they could put out which would resonate with voters in the same way.

Safe Labour seats swinging slightly to the SNP a la 1992 wouldn't be totally out of the question I think, even if the referendum doesn't go through - the biggest effect in terms of parliamentary elections I think will be seen at Holyrood, where the SNP might fare badly in the future if they don't manage independence.

So if the case for more Labour seats from AV anytime this decade is dubious, what about the impact of a yes vote on the coalition?

Johnson said Labour volunteers were concentrated now in safe Labour seats to ensure turnout.

Some Labour MPs also believe the «alternative vote» would benefit the least unpopular - rather than the most popular - candidates, and could cost Labour seats.

With more Conservative than Labour seats.

New Labour under the egregious Brown and Darling were as culpable as the preceding Thatcherites and many of their acolytes occupy Labour seats in Westminster and plot continuously to overthrown the Corbynites.

Both constituencies have been Labour seats since their inception, and in both over 60 per cent of voters wanted to leave the EU.

To see why, consider three by - elections in Labour seats in the last Parliament — the only three, as far as I am aware, in which opinion polls were conducted.

In every other by - election in the current parliament in English Labour seats, the party's vote share has risen by around ten percentage points.

Later this week we shall know whether those hopes and fears are justified, or whether the pattern of past by - election polls in Labour seats has persisted.

Equally, leftwing attacks on the government would win barely any Labour seats.

The Press Association reports that the election for Collindale has been postponed until June 26 due to a candidate's death but council sources describe the three seats in that ward as «safe Labour seats».

(a) win many Labour seats (b) split the vote enough in seats where Corbynites get more of the Labour vote to hand them to the Tories or UKIP (or, in a handful of cases, the Lib Dems or Greens).

The council now has no party with an overall majority, with 23 Labour seats, 18 Conservative, six Ukip and two independents.

Admitting that he is extending the Tory battleground to gun for Lib Dem and Labour seats, Cameron was heckled by a Lib Dem supporter over Tory policies on schools and tax

So we face three problems: the decline in the number of people willing to join a political party; the particular impact this has had in safe Labour seats and some marginals because we organise on a constituency - by - constituency basis; and the way in which our organisation focuses on the next Election to the exclusion of all else.

Losing scores of crucial Scottish Labour seats would be a potentially fatal blow to Miliband's hopes of winning an overall majority at Westminster, with polls suggesting Labour and the Tories are neck and neck.

In the many safe Labour seats in the West, there is no risk in letting the Con in by default if you vote for the SNP and elsewhere the SNP are probably the incumbents or up against the LibDems.

Labour believes a strengthening Lib Dem poll rating can deprive the Tories of an overall majority by putting some vulnerable Labour seats out of their reach.

The final list features Labour seats with a majority over the Tories from seven to fourteen per cent.

We really need to resist the idea that a net loss of Labour seats could possibly be interpreted as a successful campaign.

They were carefully chosen marginal seats, well away from Labour seats whose MPs might be displaced by boundary changes and the reduction in the number of seats from 650 to 600.

Although equalising the electorates helps the Tories, there remains a residual pro-Labour bias in Britain's political geography, because turnout is significantly lower in Labour seats.

Since then his relentless campaigning has seen the building of a 10,000 majority that increased in 2010 while Labour seats elsewhere saw vote shares tumble.

Some 40 Labour MPs are still thought to be planning to vote against it: they believe the AV system would end up favouring the least unpopular candidates, rather than the most popular - and fear that could lose Labour seats.

Neither are traditional Labour seats.

I decided to look primarily at Labour seats — including some with colossal majorities — in areas which voted yes to independence, or where the result was very close.

Of course, Unite in Falkirk West and 40 other constituency Labour parties (CLP)-- through recruiting its members to Labour — has been trying to secure its candidates as prospective parliamentary candidates in safe Labour seats for the 2015 general election.

First, the Labour seats.

They tend to be seats with relatively small numbers of constituents in urban areas — that's right; they tend to be Labour seats, where the population has tended to shrink over the years as people sensibly flee areas represented by Labour MPs.

Corbyn can expect a positive reception in Liverpool, where Labour seats are as safe as they come.

That was based on voter prediction data provided by the party's hired strategists, Lynton Crosby and Jim Messina, which suggested, even until Thursday morning, that May was on course to seize Labour seats.

As John Curtice put it here last week: «Labour seems to have forgotten (or not realised) that most of those who voted Labour in 2015 — including those living in Labour seats in the north and the Midlands — backed remain.

There are six places where more than one MP would have a right to seek selection for a seat, but where there are enough Labour seats to go round, so if MPs co-operate and agree between themselves who will stand where, no head - to - head challenge is necessary and no one is left empty handed.