Sentences with phrase «scottish seats in the election»

[485][486] In the 2015 United Kingdom general election, the SNP received 1,454,436 votes, 50.0 % of the Scottish vote and 56 out of the 59 Scottish seats in the election.

Labour faces losing its last Scottish seat in the election on June 8 as opinion polls show voters are deserting the party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

Not exact matches

After losing his Glasgow - Govan parliamentary seat in the 1992 General Election, Scottish National Party politician Jim Sillars condemned Scotland as a country of «Ninety - Minute Patriots,» willing to support Scotland during a football match but unwilling to take the necessary steps to....

The SNP's Callum McCaig has a healthy 9,000 plus majority in the granite city, but this seat is in the Tories» sights this time after a strong performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections from candidate Ross Thomson.

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 systeIn 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 systein the additional member system.

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.

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

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 referenduIn 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 referenduin 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 referenduin 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 referenduin last year's referendum.

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

This week's general election focus group report comes from two Scottish seats which fell to the SNP in 2015 but could be competitive on 8 June: Edinburgh South West, and Aberdeen South.

In the Scottish Parliament elections yesterday the SNP lost 6 seats and their majority because their share of the list vote fell by 2 points.

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.

The SNP's remarkable achievement of winning 56 of Scotland's 59 Westminster seats in the General Election cemented Sturgeon's position as the dominant figure in Scottish politics.

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.

The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.

Neither the SSP or Sheridan's breakaway party - Solidarity, won seats in the 2007 elections to the Scottish Parliament.

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

After a couple of Labour councillors standing in the past two Holyrood elections, the Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has been selected to fight this seat in 2016.

For instance, Labour's overall share of the vote increased in 2015, relative to the 2010 General Election, by 1.5 %, but the extent of the party's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted votes.

Sunday marks the second anniversary of the last Hollyrood election, when Alex Salmond's Scottish National party (SNP) won 47 of the 129 seats in the parliament.

Mr Murphy said he wanted to have a successor as leader in place by the summer, and confirmed he would not be standing for a seat at the Scottish Parliament in next year's election.

On Friday, Mr Murphy said he would remain leader of the party in Scotland and stand for a seat at Holyrood in next year's Scottish parliamentary election.

But these losses will only be felt after Scottish independence is complete and won't change the number of seats contested in the May election.

In January 2014, Griffin was chosen as the Scottish Labour Party candidate for the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Scottish Parliament seat at the 2016 election.

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).

But then the SNP did win previously safe - as - houses Glasgow East from Labour at the by - election earlier in the summer on a swing of over 20 per cent, and they start with an advantage in Glenrothes in that the party already holds the almost identical Fife Central seat in the Scottish Parliament.

Scotland on Sunday reports that the Scottish Conservative Party is targeting eleven seats in the General Election, including that of the Chancellor, Alistair Darling:

He fought the Argyll and Bute constituency in the 2005 general election, finishing second, [1] and fought the equivalent seat in the 2007 Scottish parliament election, finishing third.

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.

Alex Salmond had been hoping to form a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats and Green party after winning a one seat lead over Labour in the Scottish election.

In Peter Kellner's latest election prediction, Labour's Scottish seat tally falls from 31 to 24 (Comments: 300)

This was because the SNP gained 47 seats out of 129 in the election, which was some way short of achieving an absolute majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament, but more than any other single party gained.

Below is a well crafted video presented by the Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie which introduces us to the party's candidates in the eleven seats north of the border where the Conservatives are targeting resources at the general election.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Labour lost a third of its seats, dropping from 37 to 24.

In a second visit to Edinburgh in May 2014 Farage correctly predicted that UKIP would win a Scottish seat in the European Parliament electionIn a second visit to Edinburgh in May 2014 Farage correctly predicted that UKIP would win a Scottish seat in the European Parliament electionin May 2014 Farage correctly predicted that UKIP would win a Scottish seat in the European Parliament electionin the European Parliament elections.

136,203 is the difference between the 2010 vote in Scotland for Westminster seats (412,855), and the vote in the Scottish elections earlier this year (276,652)- which disproves the theory that the Scottish Conservatives would do well at Holyrood if there was a Conservative -LRB-- led) Westminster government back in power.

Former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth of Drumlean has today given a stark assessment of the state of the Scottish Conservative Party in the wake of a general election campaign which saw the party fail to gain any of its targets seats.

He acknowledged that Scottish Labour had a huge challenge ahead of it in the run up to next year's elections as it tries to improve on its 38 seats and take back majority party status from the SNP, who have 64 members.

Other than these parties, the Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) were able to obtain more than 5 % of seats in three elections (1999, 2003, and 2007), and the Scottish Green Party (SGP) was able to do so in one election (2003).

Only three parties have been able to secure more than 5 % of the seats in each of the past four elections: the Scottish Labour Party (Lab), the Scottish National Party (SNP), and the Conservative Party (Con).

But if the similarities with the 2011 Scottish election look striking, it is vital to bear this in mind: the number of seats that change hands depends heavily on the overall national swing from Labour to the SNP.

The Scottish National Party has recorded a historic landslide general election victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

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

The Scottish council elections were last contested in 2007 and offer Labour less of an open goal although as in Wales all the seats are up for election.

In 2007, the Holyrood and Scottish council elections took place on the same day, and saw the introduction of a new design of ballot paper for the parliament vote and a new voting system for the council seats.

He represented Glasgow Anniesland in the Scottish Parliament until losing his seat in the 2011 election.

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.