Sentences with phrase «scottish constituency»

Murphy also wanted to spend # 5,000 on campaigns in every Labour - held Scottish constituency at Holyrood and Westminster, as well as seats the party planned to target at future elections, and pledged a «radical change» in Labour's campaign strategy.

Oakeshott said a further poll on voting intentions in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, the Scottish constituency of Danny Alexander, the senior Lib Dem Treasury minister, would be on the ICM website later on Wednesday.

Mr Murray, who was the Shadow Scotland Secretary, is the only Labour MP with a Scottish constituency.

The Conservatives» only MP for a Scottish constituency, David Mundell, who served as a minister in the department from 2010 - 15, takes this position.

Gordon Brown having number 10 and a scottish constituency home is perfectly fine with me (as long as the size / value of the constituency home is consistent with his status outside politics).

Whereas it's been fairly stable in England and Wales, there's not a single Scottish constituency that's seen a drop in voter numbers.

Watson's office manager was the Unite union's preferred candidate in Falkirk, the Scottish constituency placed into special measures by Labour after allegations emerged Unite had attempted to meddle in its selection process.

Tweeting just twice since the election aftermath, on both occasions it was to describe the beautiful walks around his rural Scottish constituency.

This week's diary is written by Richard Cook, candidate for East Renfrewshire, the Scottish constituency formerly known as Eastwood.

He has written extensively on Scottish constituency and local electoral politics and is currently completing a second edition of the book Political Parties in the UK.

As a former Parliamentary candidate for a Scottish constituency, I find the endless arguments on ConservativeHome about the state of the union and the Barnett Formula tiresome.

The problem is exacerbated by the Labour Party's dominance in Scottish constituencies: 2015 could well see a Labour majority in Westminster and a Conservative majority in «rump UK», i.e. the United Kingdom minus Scotland.

He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1997 to 2015, representing the Scottish constituencies of Paisley South (1997 — 2005) and Paisley and Renfrewshire South (2005 — 15).

That's in contrast to the SNP, who have a large squad of experienced candidates and lots of IndyRef organisers champing at the bit in the 59 Scottish constituencies.

Moreover, we have not yet looked in detail at Scottish constituencies, which could potentially change the equation dramatically.

One of the major talking points has been Lord Ashcroft's recent polls of 16 Scottish constituencies, which attracted special attention because unlike the other polling companies it drilled down to constituencies rather than just voting intentions as a whole.

No doubt all politicians keep the party implications of political reforms in mind but Labour's own partisan interests, particularly representing 41 of the 59 Scottish constituencies in the House of Commons, would appear to be playing a significant role in the party's difficulty in articulating any coherent view about England's place in the evolving constitution of the United Kingdom.

That could see the nationalists, who won six seats in the House of Commons in 2010, return 47 MPs this time around, with Labour losing all but 10 of the 41 Scottish constituencies it secured in in the last general election.

It would be wrong to suggest that Labour faces electoral destruction in Westminster if it loses its Scottish constituencies - Blair's three elections would still have resulted in Labour governments, albeit with truncated majorities.

Firstly, it was a week that laid bare the potentially seismic shifts taking place electorally in Scotland, with Lord Ashcroft's seat - by - seat polling of 16 Scottish constituencies showing the scale of change that may be at hand.

Note that because the Scottish census is carried out separate to the census in England and Wales not all census information is available for Scottish constituencies.

In the boundary changes to Scottish constituencies in 2005 Renfrewshire East, previously called Eastwood, was the only constituency to retain its previous boundaries.

With the SNP winning a historic 56 of the 59 Scottish constituencies in 2015, the party had little room for improvement.

Not exact matches

With results declared from 647 of the 650 constituencies on Friday morning, the Tories had 316, Labour 261, the Scottish Nationalist Party 35 and the Liberal Democrats twelve.

The yellow, although it was not immediately obvious, denoted constituencies won by the Scottish National Party in the Scottish parliament elections of May 2011.

Scotland's first minister and the Scottish National party's leader is also MSP for the constituency of Gordon, leading his opponents to question how he could carry out three jobs at once.

With the results for all constituencies and regions in Scotland in, BASC - the largest shooting association in Scotland - has announced that it has identified 48 out of 129 (37 %) members of Scottish Parliament (MSPs) from all parties except the Greens who are supportive of shooting according to the current law and codes of practice.

Angus Robertson, the leader of the Scottish National party at Westminster, whose constituency is the home base of the Nimrod fleet at RAF Kinloss, commented: «If the MRA4 is no longer the appropriate platform then which should it be, how long will it take to introduce and at what cost?

In the Scottish Parliament election, 2016, SNP saw its constituency vote increase slightly (from 45.4 % to 46.5 %) and its regional vote decrease slightly (from 44.0 % to 41.7 %), leading to a decrease from 69 to 63 seats (out of 129) in the additional member system.

He is married to Scottish Minister for Public Health, Shona Robison MSP with a young daughter, Morag Louise, and lives in the constituency where he was elected as MP for Dundee East on 5 May 2005, taking the seat from Labour.

In May's General Election, when the SNP won Jim Murphy's East Renfrewshire seat, it did not just topple the leader of Scottish Labour, it took a constituency that epitomises middle Scotland.

It was the comparatively middle class constituency of Edinburgh South, traditionally a three way marginal, that Labour's vote increased and Ian Murray survived as the sole Scottish Labour MP.

«Imagine that in your constituency at the general election only Labour and the Scottish National Party had a realistic chance of winning.

Yes Linton — based in the Westminster constituency of the Scottish secretary, David Mundell — is one of the newest groups, having formed in January.

The main constituency level patterns that make a noticeable difference to our seats forecast are Scottish Labour falling further where they started stronger and first - time incumbent Conservative MPs doing better.

Mr Murphy stepped down as Scottish Labour leader last year after the SNP swept the electoral board taking 56 of 59 Westminster seats, including his East Renfrewshire constituency, and leaving the party with one MP in Scotland.

Should Scottish ministers be represented in these negotiations since they represent constituencies which will no longer be part of the United Kingdom after March 2016?

Such is the weight of expectation on Nicola Sturgeon's shoulders that failure by the SNP to win each and every one of the Scottish Parliament's 73 constituencies (leaving other parties to pick up seats decided under a proportional representation system) would be seen as some kind of failure.

Remarkably Lamont came within 328 votes (and a fraught early morning recount) of leading the Conservatives to winning a second Westminster seat in the equivalent 2015 general election constituency, which would have made the Conservatives the second largest Scottish party in the House of Commons.

A relatively well - off and low unemployment seat, Dumfriesshire (and its predecessor constituency, Dumfries) has not changed hands since the first Scottish parliament election in 1999.

There are 73 Scottish Parliamentary constituencies, click on a name to view full details for each area.

In 1999, at the first elections to the Scottish Parliament, Labour took all the constituency seats across the Glasgow region.

That's why, as MPs start the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill on 6 September, I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election the party stood in the West Scotland, [9] Mid Scotland and Fife, North East Scotland [10] regions and the Edinburgh Central constituency.

This constituency is held by Iain Gray, the MSP who led Labour to landslide defeat at the last 2011 Scottish parliament election.

These included the election of a Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, CLPs based on Scottish Parliament constituencies and a belated devolution of the relevant sections of the rule book.

He added that, Dr Sawyerr, is a clean party person and the Constituency needs her efforts to let the Scottish train Doctor succeeds in her political career.

All the parties are busy viewing the outcome through a Westminster constituency lens, leading the Scottish Conservatives to believe they could win as many as 15 seats next month and, perhaps even more ambitiously, Scottish Labour an additional seven.

A Scottish Labour party spokesperson refused to confirm or deny Mr McLeish's expected candidacy for selection in Glenrothes, a constituency they are widely expected to lose in the by - election.

Labour has retained the constituency of Glenrothes, following a two - horse by - election against the Scottish National party (SNP).