Sentences with phrase «candidates in safe seats»

Of those 51 candidates in the safe seats, 16 (31.4 %) are women and 4 (7.8 %) are from a BME background.

Well, as far as I can see it we're dammed whatever we do so I for one am reaching the conclusion that we need to get rid of bad rubbish and persuade CLP's to deselect and then select left radical candidates in every safe seat and as many as others as possible.

Party members are also selecting gay candidates in the safest seats.

Not exact matches

Roy Moore, the party's candidate for what had been one of its safest Senate seats, lost after allegations arose that he had sexually assaulted a 14 - year - old girl when he was in his mid-30s and had pursued other teenagers.

The closed shop was as important for that as it was for giving the Tory forty - five per cent of the industrial working - class a moderating influence in the selection of Labour candidates for the safe Labour seats in which they lived.

With over the half the constituencies in Britain classified as «safe seats», it's time we opened up the candidate selection process to the public

Remember, there are no truly safe seats: no candidate in the last election got more than half of all the potential votes in their constituency.

Northern Heckler, you might have a point if more than 20 Tory Associations hadn't selected openly gay candidates in safe and winnable seats.

Democrats close to both New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy had also worried that Trump - allied self - funding candidates would jump in against them, forcing them to spend serious campaign cash to defend their otherwise safe seats.

She was Labour's candidate in the 2014 Rochester and Strood by - election and has come close to getting the nod for the safe Labour seats of Slough and Tooting.

With all the hypotheses circulating around town we've all managed to miss one little thing: With every possible candidate in north Queens comfortable and safe in their seats, there's only one viable candidate that has enough political clout and name recognition to battle the 800 pound gorilla that is Tony Avella.

Following the retirement of Michael Heseltine, Johnson decided to stand as the Conservative candidate for Henley, a Conservative safe seat in Oxfordshire.

In a state where Democrats are targeting four Republican - held seats in November and need viable candidates to make it through Tuesday's primaries, the nominating contest in Illinois that's receiving the most attention is in a safe Democratic districIn a state where Democrats are targeting four Republican - held seats in November and need viable candidates to make it through Tuesday's primaries, the nominating contest in Illinois that's receiving the most attention is in a safe Democratic districin November and need viable candidates to make it through Tuesday's primaries, the nominating contest in Illinois that's receiving the most attention is in a safe Democratic districin Illinois that's receiving the most attention is in a safe Democratic districin a safe Democratic district.

In Utah's «Safe Republican'territory, where Democrat Doug Owens is again vying for the 4th District seat he lost by 5 points in 2014, he is one of the rare rematch candidates to have raised more than the incumbenIn Utah's «Safe Republican'territory, where Democrat Doug Owens is again vying for the 4th District seat he lost by 5 points in 2014, he is one of the rare rematch candidates to have raised more than the incumbenin 2014, he is one of the rare rematch candidates to have raised more than the incumbent.

Brian Clough had been asked to stand as a Labour Party candidate twice, once in a Conservative safe - seat in Richmond, Surrey and the other time in Moss Side, Manchester.

After being rejected as Conservative candidate for Holborn and St. Pancras, he was selected as the party's candidate for Clwyd South in North Wales, a Labour Party safe seat.

[275] However, after much media speculation, in August 2014 he sought selection as the Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election, [302] being selected as the party's candidate in September.

In 2005, Labour lost the «safe» Labour seat of Blaenau Gwent to an independent candidate in just such circumstanceIn 2005, Labour lost the «safe» Labour seat of Blaenau Gwent to an independent candidate in just such circumstancein just such circumstances.

«Yet it still exercised massive influence» — training candidates to ensure they won nominations for safe seats, for example, and, as the Labour left sees it, using networks of influence to secure important positions in the party.

Open primaries are used extensively for candidate selection in the United States, but have no place here, except perhaps in safe seats.

Republicans said that Stivers» best attribute beyond fundraising is that while he is now in a safe seat, he knows firsthand what it is like to be a candidate in a tough race.

75 per cent of Labour's parliamentary candidates oppose renewing Britain's nuclear deterrent - including some in the party's safest seats.

There are no safe seats, in any election, and any candidate who starts taking the view that there is is the one that loses.

In these safe seats the real contest is the candidate selection, not the election.

Assemblyman Sean Ryan says he'll decide in two weeks whether to give up his safe seat in the lower house and run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Marc Panepinto among considerable turmoil and a strong GOP candidate (Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs).

The PC candidates in safe and target seats are no better and probably even worse.

OBV is very quick to mark the selection of a black Labour candidate in a difficult - to - win seat but nearly one week after Kwasi Kwarteng was adopted as the candidate for a safe Tory seat there is no mention on Operation Red Black Vote's site.

Credit is also due to David Cameron who ensured that black and Asian candidates were chosen in a dozen or so safe Conservative seats.

Of course, Unite in Falkirk West and 40 other constituency Labour parties (CLP)-- through recruiting its members to Labour — has been trying to secure its candidates as prospective parliamentary candidates in safe Labour seats for the 2015 general election.

But anyone who believes in Party democracy should wholeheartedly support the drive to get more women and BME candidates selected in safe and winnable seats.

Selections in the safe seats 51 candidates have been selected for the seats where Conservative MPs are standing down, or where boundary changes have created new Conservative seats or converted existing ones into Conservative seats.

AV will end the scandal of safe seats for life; it will make candidates for elections work harder; it is a change supported by Benjamin Zephaniah (in urban areas) and Tony Robinson (in rural areas); it will end the expenses scandal; it will help minor parties to flourish; it is, by definition, fair, not least because it will lead to MPs who are supported by at least 50 % of their electorate.

The latest tranche of constituencies seeking a candidate was released yesterday and includes three safe seats where sitting MPs have announced their retirements in recent days.

A very senior Cabinet minister has told me that the Coalition has now scrapped its radical plans to pay for primary elections to choose party candidates in 200 safe seats.

He was proud when he was chosen as his party's candidate for the safe Labour seat in the 1979 election in preference to two academic aspirants with, as he put it, more letters behind their names than the eight letters in his own.

The Press Association reports that the election for Collindale has been postponed until June 26 due to a candidate's death but council sources describe the three seats in that ward as «safe Labour seats».

Liz Saville Roberts - The Plaid Cymru candidate, standing in Dwyfor Meirionnydd, is on track to become the party's first woman MP at Westminster after inheriting a safe seat from Elfyn Llwyd, who explained his decision to retire to the Telegraph back in April.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.