Sentences with phrase «by the constituency conservative»

Blunt first entered the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, when he replaced the then MP Sir George Gardiner who had been deselected by the Constituency Conservative Association Executive Council.

Not exact matches

By my count, the parties have now nominated the following number of candidates out of 87 constituencies in the next election: Alberta Party 11/87, Liberal 20/87, New Democratic Party 49/87, Progressive Conservative 39/87, Wildrose 53/87.

The constituency is currently represented by MLA Jason Hale, a former Wildrose MLA who crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in December 2014.

The death of Progressive Conservative MLA Manmeet Bhullar on Nov. 23, 2015 means that a by - election will be held to choose the next MLA for the Calgary - Greenway constituency early this year.

With the Progressive Conservatives planning to complete candidate nominations in all 87 constituencies by March 15, 2015, there have been plenty of announcements since my previous update:

Barrhead - Morinville - Westlock: Westlock Town Councillor David Truckey is the first candidate to enter the Progressive Conservative nomination contest in the constituency being vacated by long - time MLA Ken Kowalski.

The survey, carried out by ComRes, asked for the opinions of those living in the 40 most marginal Conservative and Labour constituencies.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

These groups unwittingly weaken the impact of the Christian message either as they try to alter the distinctive character of entire denominations, attempting to turn liberal churches into conservative churches, or as they undermine the consistency of image projected by liberal churches in areas important to their particular constituency.

Black and Hispanic religious conservatives will expect their white allies to address issues too often seen as «Democratic» by their constituencies — such as racial bias in sentencing.

The adult FCA constituency, largely conservative, Nixonian and inculcated with what the article labeled the «sports mindset,» had a fit, being especially infuriated by photographs vividly juxtaposing sport and war, e.g., injured player - wounded soldier.

The prominent Conservative backbencher will trigger a by - election in his constituency of Clacton, where he has a majority of 12,068.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

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.

The constituency has traditionally favoured the Conservative Party though has fallen to Labour in three general elections in addition to the 1991 by - election.

Evan Harris - Liberal Democrat Dr Evan Harris lost his seat of Oxford West and Abingdon to the Conservatives by just 176 votes - a major hit for the Lib Dems in a constituency with a large student population.

The constituency is one of the most affluent in the country and for most of the 20th century, it was held by the Conservatives.

We finished second in the roughly similar Holyrood constituency of Aberdeen South and North Kincardine in 2016 but the Westminster constituency saw the Conservatives beat the SNP by over 5 % in May's local elections.

This constituency was held by the Conservatives until 1997.

For those living in constituencies where Labour and the Liberal Democrats are expected to share first and second place, tactical voting by Conservative supporters in favour of the Lib Dems increases the chances that another Con - Lib coalition would have a majority.

His Cumbrian constituency, Westmoreland and Lonsdale, had been Conservative for 95 years until 2005, when Farron edged it by just 267 votes, the sole victor in the Lib Dems» ill - fated «decapitation strategy» that year to oust top Tories.

BMG suggested that Labour were clearly ahead of the Conservatives — by five points on the constituency vote and four points on the list.

Field unsuccessfully contested the constituency of South Buckinghamshire at the 1966 general election, where he was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Ronald Bell.

[123] Boosted by his television fame, Johnson stood as the Conservative candidate for the constituency in the 2001 general election, winning with a majority of 8,500 votes.

The equalisation of the electorates of parliamentary constituencies favours the Conservative party collectively, but is opposed by many individual Tory MPs who face losing their seats.

Almond Valley is another seat with a strong Labour background (the Westminster constituency was held by Robin Cook until his death), and with little interest in voting for the Liberal Democrats or the Conservatives.

As the Feltham and Heston by - election reaches its later stages - it is set to take place next Thursday - senior Conservative MPs have been paying visits to the constituency.

Crosby's realisation that Lib Dem seats could be taken and that voters in those constituencies were persuadable, especially when the polls indicated a Labour majority supported by the SNP, to vote Conservative.

The messages, attributed to Tory candidate Dan Watkins, who stood against Sadiq Khan in Tooting at the 2015 election, refer to Mr Gani by name, and invite him to the Conservative Muslim Forum held in the constituency in November.

The council election was held on the same day as the national General Election, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the Conservative Party.

Outcome (Based on polling tracker, assuming national swing reproduced in every constituency) Conservatives: 239 seats Labour: 265 seats Liberal Democrat: 115 seats Other: 31 seats Labour short of an overall majority by 61.

Continue reading «Peter Lyburn's week as candidate for Perth and North Perthshire is dominated by the Scottish Conservative Conference coming to his constituency»»

Mike Freer gained Finchley and Golders Green for the Conservatives - a seat taking in much of the constituency represented by the former Prime Minister:

There are also a few who are fighting constituencies which are nominally held by another party on the existing boundaries, but which would have returned a Conservative in 2005 based on the new boundaries (as calculated by Professors Rallings and Thrasher of the University of Plymouth).

He was one of five Labour councillors in Ealing to defect to the Conservatives during the by - election in the constituency in July 2007.

Jimmy Buchan, the Conservative candidate for Banff and Buchan, is calling on the constituency's sitting Scottish Nationalist MP, Alex Salmond, to stand down and create a by - election.

The seat, which borders Gordon Brown's parliamentary constituency, was gained by the Lib Dems (from Labour) at a by - election in 2005, where the Conservatives remained in fourth place.

Despite shock gains in 2015 — the party picked up the Gower constituency, which had been under Labour control for 100 years, by just 27 votes — the Welsh Conservatives have continued their historical trend of performing considerably worse in Wales than in England.

The constituency and Newham Council have been run for too long by Labour and I am looking forward to working with the Conservatives here to oust them.»

A couple of weeks ago we noted how Shaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for the newly drawn Hammersmith constituency, was stopped from having a public debate filmed by one of his campaign team by his Labour and Lib Dem opponents.

Pritchard was first elected to parliament for The Wrekin constituency in 2005, defeating Peter Bradley, the incumbent Labour MP, by just 942 votes although this represented a 5.4 % swing from Labour to Conservative.

He lost out to Conservative David Nuttall by just 378 votes, who has held the constituency since 2010, when it was won back from Labour.

This strategy is by now a standard attempt to appeal beyond conventional constituencies: Labour wants to be the party of capitalists as well as workers, the Conservatives desire social liberals in addition to their traditional base, and the Liberal Democrats target people who don't fit in but want to be liked.

One third of Conservative MPs remain pro-European, although some will find it hard to be re-selected by their constituency parties, if Central Office has its way.

Speaking in Swindon as part of a tour of west country constituencies, where his speech was watched by his parents, the Conservative leader said: «At the start of this campaign I said we would fight this election for the people who are ignored in our society, the ones who work hard, pay their taxes, live decent lives and yet feel they are sidelined.

In October 2008, the Electoral Commission cleared the Conservative Party of breaking electoral law by using an MIC - funded company, Coleshill Campaigning Services (aka Constituency Campaigning Services), as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats.

The complaint against Mr Brown, raised by Conservative MP Greg Hands, related to Mr Brown subletting his constituency office in Kirkcaldy to his local party from July 2005 to March 2008.

Wilfred Emmanuel - Jones The self - styled «Black Farmer» was selected in June 2006 to stand in the newly - created Wiltshire constituency of Chippenham, which draws on three existing seats held by Conservative MPs.

At issue was whether the costs of a Conservative campaign battlebus should have been accounted for by local campaigns where the legal spending limits are tighter at between about # 11,000 and # 16,000, depending on the size of the constituency

The newly - drawn constiruency - taking in parts of the existing Meirionnydd Nant Conwy and Caernarfon constituencies - is notionally held by Plaid Cymru with a majority of 8,706 over Labour, with the Conservatives in third place.