Sentences with phrase «libdem seat»
Bournemouth councillor Nick King has been adopted for the LibDem seat of Mid Dorset and North Poole.
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The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.
Evidently, Blunkett thinks there is nothing at all perculiar about a voting system in which the LibDems attract 23 % of the votes cast and get only 8 % of the seats in Parliament.
The ability of the LibDems to defend the seats it currently holds may depend, in part, on whether its incumbent MPs can buck this national trend in their own constituencies.
The LibDems aren't going to lose «a bit of ground» to the Tories, they're going to lose 30 - 40 seats to them (i.e. about half the Parliamentary Party), not least because they have their most ineffective leader since Clement Davis.
In his Brentwood and Ongar constituency the Tories were defending five County seats but were shocked to lose two to the LibDems.
But no - one expected the LibDems to end up with fewer than 20 seats.
In terms of Commons arithmetic, this relies on the gap in seats between the two major parties being a good deal smaller than the LibDem number of seats, as well as the two party total being over half of all seats.
The seat is held by LibDem Daniel Rogerson with a notional majority of more than 5000 votes due to boundary changes.
The LibDems remain subdued below 20 % but there are few signs that the Conservatives are poised to win back many of the thirty and more seats lost to the LibDems at recent elections.
West Sussex County Councillor Anne - Marie Morris has been selected for the LibDem held seat of Newton Abbot - beating Hannah Parker.
There is still determination to flood LibDem / Tory seats with money despite recent evidence that the LibDem vote is very soft in the south.
The Conservatives are third placed in a seat that Ms Hoey holds with a projected majority of 8,534 over the LibDems.
Michelle will have to oust the LibDems as the second - placed candidate in a seat that Labour hold with a projected majority of 13,440.
It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,
As a Conservative, I find a «crumb of comfort» in knowing that the former leader of the LibDems has started funding our target seats campaigns.
I am more worried about east Anglia, where we have lost council seats to the LibDems and even when we retained those seats, there has been large swings away from us to LibDems.
Polling by Populus (for Lord Ashcroft) has, however, suggested that LibDem MPs could face wipeout in Tory / LD marginals if they don't have a non-aggression pact with the Conservatives in these seats.
He notes that the LibDem constitution requires the party to fight every seat and 50 % of members would have to vote to change that.
The LibDems will have significantly fewer seats after 2015 — perhaps as few as 30 — and their bargaining power in coalition negotiations will be reduced accordingly.
In part this difference is due to a classic First Past The Post electoral system effect, but Labour managed to get 19 % of the seats on 20 % of the vote, and the LibDems got 14 % of the seats on 13 % of the vote among the BBC keywards.
The seat is vulnerable because the current LibDem MP, Mark Oaten, had a big personal following until he was forced to resign following of tabloid investigations.
And if the last election could be re-run under AV, the LibDems would improve on the 8.8 % of seats they won, while not achieving the full 23.3 % their share of the poll would warrant.
Bristol South is Labour seat with a projected majority of 11,142 over the LibDems and approximately 1,200 more over the Conservatives.
[4] Wardle supported Nigel Farage (who later became the Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party), but Barker won the safe seat securing over 10,500 votes ahead of LibDem Stephen Hardy.
Nick Yarker was yesterday selected yesterday for the LibDem held seat of Bristol West.
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.
Outlook: «Few other LibDem spokesmen sound as authoritative» (Peter Riddell, The Times), «is said to impress Tony Blair» (Steve Richards, New Statesman), the active, mainstream Scots QC, who recaptured Asquith's old seat for the Liberals on his third try, a former athletic star, he admits to being «obsessed» by anabolic steroids
Stay in there while Labour loses votes & seats & The Libdems rebuild, waste more time.
The SNP won Labour's third safest seat in Scotland on a huge swing last night, with the Conservatives beating the LibDems into third place:
Virginia Taylor, Tory candidate for the seat in 2001 and 2005, did a terrific job in moving the seat into one of the top possibilities for a Tory gain over the LibDems at the next General Election.
Those reasons were obvious in last month's local elections when (1) we made decent progress in councils that overlapped target seats - including in the north west; (2) Labour was completely ousted from large sections of the country - particularly in the south east; and (3) Conservatives made solid net gains from the LibDems.
Local lad Ross Thomson has been selected for the Scottish seat of Gordon, a seat where the Conservatives are in third place over 12000 votes behind LibDem MP Malcolm Bruce.
> Over at Seats and candidates, Bromley councillor Neil Reddin explains why the LibDems can't take much comfort from the Bromley and Chislehurst by - election in their battling to do well in Henley.