Sentences with phrase «liberal democrat seats»

His remarks, before the critical by - election for the coalition partners, reflect Conservative concern that the main route to an overall majority at the next election will be blocked if Tories can not capture a string of Liberal Democrat seats.»

The implications for Liberal Democrat seats are straightforward.

While Wright's success was short - lived (he was defeated in 2015), Lamb has retained his seat, which is after the 2015 election was one of only two Liberal Democrat seats in southern England, and one of only eight in the whole UK.

Constituency polls by Lord Ashcroft suggest that prompting people to think about the candidates in their constituency when asking people whom they will vote for results in much more Liberal Democrat voting in Liberal Democrat seats.

Most Liberal Democrat seats have the Conservatives in second place and it will be tough for Labour to come from third to win.

By the end, when it became clear there was no such thing as a «soft» SNP voter, our campaign in Scotland narrowed its focus to an appeal to Conservative and Labour supporters to vote tactically in Liberal Democrat seats to keep the SNP out.

A poll of 100 key marginals by Crosby / Textor is reported in today's Daily Telegraph to show the Conservatives picking up 74 Labour seats but none of the 20 Liberal Democrat seats in the sample.

Vulnerable Tory and Liberal Democrat seats will be targeted by GPs at the next election in a bid to punish those who helped the NHS reforms on to the statute book.

I've seen it for myself in Liberal Democrat seats across the country.

These polls typically do not show much sign of switching between general and constituency specific vote intention, except in Liberal Democrat seats where it is unclear whether the switching is tactical or due to the personal popularity of the sitting MP.

In 2010, though the Conservatives did not achieve the national vote share they wanted, the party's targeting strategy meant it won 23 more Labour seats and 9 more Liberal Democrat seats than it would have done on a uniform swing.

In addition to the big Conservative majority they collectively suggest that the Liberal Democrats seat tally will only increase by four and that the SNP will be down seven.

Following the introduction of their seat targeting strategy in general elections, the Liberal Democrats seat distribution from 1992 onwards has become more efficient.

Best - case scenario: Crunch seats like Cambridge, where hostility to the coalition could be decisive in costing Liberal Democrats their seats, are brought back into play.

I also looked at two current Liberal Democrats seats of interest: Gordon, where Alex Salmond is standing in May, and Danny Alexander's constituency of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey.

The Conservatives successfully challenged the result in court and the election was re-run, but the perception of being a sore loser saw a huge swing against Malone at the subsequent by - election, making Winchester one of the safest Liberal Democrat seat in the country.

Not exact matches

The New Democrats came in second with 15 seats, forming the Official Opposition, while the Liberal Party took a close third with 12 seats.

Christians and Liberal Democrat candidate Alistair Carmichael held onto his Orkney and Shetland seat, while Greg Mulholland lost his bid to be re-elected in Leeds North West.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

The party slipped to third place in Eastleigh, one of its top ten target seats for the general election, behind Ukip and the Liberal Democrats.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

Former Congressman — and convicted felon — Michael Grimm sounded ready to run for his old seat last night as he blasted the Staten Island representative who replaced him, Republican Dan Donovan, calling him a «liberal Democrat.»

Young and personable, Abbotts is a lifelong Liberal Democrat who came within 700 votes of taking the Conservative seat of Bromley and Chislehurst in a 2006 by - election.

«Despite losing 1,042 state and federal seats in eight years, national Democrats are still pushing the same divisive rhetoric and painfully out - of - touch liberal agenda.»

Meanwhile senior Liberal Democrat figures from the Coalition era are set to try to win back their seats in the upcoming general election.

Benjamin, elected to fill a vacant Harlem Senate seat, gave Democrats a 32nd enrolled member in the chamber, kicking of a sustained campaign by liberal groups to push the Independent Democratic Conference toward reconciliation with the mainline conference.

Were an individual Gloucestershire voter given up to seven votes to distribute as s / he saw fit, it is of course impossible to know whether this would lead to seven Conservative MPs returned (as was the case in the 2015 election), or a mixture of parties (in 2005 the seats were split three Conservative, two Labour and two Liberal Democrat).

Only ten Liberal Democrats were seated when the prime minister began speaking.

William Wragg, 28, another Brexiteer, parked a career in teaching to stand in Hazel Grove, taking a seat held by the Liberal Democrats since 1997.

A surge in Ukip's support, combined with an expected bloodbath for the Liberal Democrats, could leave the eurosceptic party with more seats than the coalition partner.

Seat changes: Labour gain one seat / Ukip gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one Seat changes: Labour gain one seat / Ukip gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Ukip gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seatseat

In terms of straight projected seats, Labour could even get a majority with just 34 per cent of the vote if the Liberal Democrats do really well.

He ruled out standing against Nick Clegg in the Liberal Democrat leader's seat of Sheffield Hallam.

Seat changes: Ukip gain one seat / Labour gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one Seat changes: Ukip gain one seat / Labour gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Labour gain one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Conservatives lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seat / Liberal Democrats lose one seatseat

«Despite losing 1,042 state and federal seats in eight years, national Democrats are still pushing the same divisive rhetoric and painfully out - of - touch liberal agenda,» NRCC spokesman Chris Martin said.

I can do my bit around the Cabinet table, but most of the seats at that table are occupied by Conservatives, not Liberal Democrats.»

The entire process whiffs of gerrymandering when calculations by the House of Commons library found that at the 2017 general election the Tories got one seat for every 43,018 votes nationally compared with Labour's 49,152 per MP or Liberal Democrats» 197,665 and Green's 525,665.

In 2010 the polls suggested that the Liberal Democrats were on course to get 80 + seats, but they got 57.

Shadow immigration minister Phil Woolas faces a five - day fight in court to save his Oldham East and Saddleworth seat from his Liberal Democrat challenger.

He needed to boost Liberal Democrat performance, especially in the party's existing seats; set out his post-election strategy to the country and potential coalition partners; and save his own seat, currently under threat according to recent polls.

In each seat we spoke to two types of people: those who voted no to Scottish independence in 2014, Labour or Liberal Democrat in 2015, and who were undecided what to do this time round; and those who voted SNP at the last general election and to leave the EU in last year's referendum.

Over 80 % of UKIP seats came from the Tories, and the Tories lost a greater proportion of their seats to UKIP than the Liberal Democrats, while Labour lost barely any to them.

At the start of April, Lord Ashcroft gave the Liberal Democrats a serious scare with his latest poll of the seat, which put Clegg on 34 % — two points behind Labour.

Continue reading «Rob Hayward: The Liberal Democrats lost 40 % of the council seats they were defending but did much better in places where they had an incumbent MP»»

Meanwhile, for the Liberal Democrats, their changing opinion poll performance relative to the Conservatives, but not Labour, has historically been correlated with headline local election seat changes.

UKIP, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each won nine seats.

The Scottish Labour Party lost forty of their forty - one seats and the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost ten of their eleven seats — all to the SNP.

Liberal Democrat Simon Wood took the seat with a majority of just 310, a four per cent swing from Labour to Lib Dem.

He retained the seat for Plaid Cymru at the 2001 election with a reduced majority, and lost it in the 2005 general election to Mark Williams of the Liberal Democrats.

Thus they are strongly supported by parties like the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Greens and so, that often pile up millions of votes in FPTP contests but may win few or no seats, because they are less commonly or rarely the largest party in a given local area.