Sentences with phrase «ward seat in the general election»

Not exact matches

The general election result — when the Conservative Treasury minister Jane Ellison was swept out of her Battersea seat after a 10 % swing to Labour — has given activists hope of taking Wandsworth for the first time in 40 years, but in several wards the party would need a significantly bigger swing to take the number of councillors needed for a majority.

To some extent this concealed the fall of the Lib Dems / rise of the Greens in this seat before the last general election because, as chance would have it, the wards where the switch was largest were not contested in 2014.

Wimbledon is one of the few seats that provides ward by ward box counts for general elections and they show that the Conservatived led Labour 54 - 21 in Raynes Park 56 - 24 in Wimbledon Park and 49 - 23 in Dundonald (so which is therefore the ward that best mimics the seat as a whole).