Sentences with phrase «actually lose the seat»

Anecdotally, there are fears that the Tories may actually lose seats to the Liberals: Eastbourne is said to be all but lost, while Guildford and Solihull are vulnerable.

It's polling level with the Liberal Democrats at nine per cent, according to YouGov, but party insiders are telling me that the first - past - the - post system means they might actually lose some seats.

In Greater Manchester, Labour became the biggest party in Trafford (previously controlled by the Conservatives), but actually lost seats overall, and had a particularly bad night in the outlying boroughs of Bolton and Wigan.

Though the Lib Dems actually lost seats, the 2010 election left neither Labour nor the Conservatives able to form a government without Clegg's MPs.

Not exact matches

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

Yeah it was a soft penalty, yeah it was marginally offside but that doesn't gloss over the fact that again we have lost away from home to a top 6 side, again we have seen odd team selections and yet again Wenger has berated the 4th official who doesn't actually have any say on the game, I'm sure he only gets out of his seat just to have a moan at them.

If that's true, Republicans would still be favored, since 1) the president's party usually loses seats in a midterm, and 2) older, more - conservative voters tend to actually show up (then of course, there's the gerrymandering).

Instead the party actually went backwards, losing one of the two seats they previously held.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

Labour will struggle in battleground seats, particularly in the south of England, but «not winning» is much less damaging than «actually losing.»

If every MP who had tweeted or commented that they were sad to see Dennis lose his seat had actually voted for him, he would most likely still be on the NEC.

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,

It will be interesting to see who actually shows up for the lame duck session considering there are a number of lawmakers who lost their seat on primary day and more are likely to be ousted one week from today.

Nick Clegg, for all the hype and excitement in 2010, actually lost several seats to win just 57, albeit on a slightly higher share of the popular vote.

Ceflyine wrote, «NO room, since the standard narative, Dems have to lose seats, won't let that race in» Are there actually people so dumb they expect the Dems to have a net gain?

In many southern areas, the Labour vote actually fell, with the party losing seats in London.

It did not actually win any seats, though it lost by just 23 votes in the West Heywood ward, which is dominated by the Darnhill housing estate.

You realize, don't you, that the Republicans are actually going to LOSE seats in next year's mid-terms?

It would not take much of a move to UKIP (probably under - recorded in this poll) for us actually to lose seats.

I actually do think including the whole of Queens Park (including the Brent part of Queens Park) and losing Bayswater will make the successor to Westminster North a safe Labour seat that could be held even with Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader.

Seeing as you need to make up for all that lost vitamin D, a convertible would actually be the healthy option and, as long as it seats four, you'd be able to make up for the lost time with your dearly beloved.

They actually lost all but eight of their seats, FYI.»