"Cent swing" refers to a small change or fluctuation in price or value. It typically refers to a movement of one cent, and it is often used in financial and investment contexts to describe slight variations in stock prices or currency exchange rates.
Full definition
He or she needs a 5
per cent swing from 1992 if the party is to win an overall majority, more than it has achieved in any post-war election.
Liberal Democrat Simon Wood took the seat with a majority of just 310, a four per
cent swing from Labour to Lib Dem.
Stephen Doughty won the Cardiff South poll with a comfortable majority in the notionally safe Labour seat with an impressive eight per
cent swing away from the Conservatives.
His research focuses on how he won the Labour seat of Enfield Southgate on an 8.7 per
cent swing at the last election, and on similar successes across the country.
Labour MPs are understood to have been told today that Remain needs a a 3 per
cent swing among Labour voters to win.
Ashcroft found an eight per
cent swing towards Labour in marginal seats, significantly larger than the picture nationally.
The number of marginal constituencies — defined as those which can change hands on a 5 per
cent swing of the vote — has halved from 166 in 1955 to 83 today.
7:26 pm: Arafura is looking like a CLP gain with Francis Maralampuwi Xavier enjoying a 28 per
cent swing after preferences.
Mr Joyce suffered a seven per
cent swing away from Labour to the SNP in 2010, but maintains a majority of over 15 %.
Local loyalty to Ian Gibson, who was perceived as being a victim of the expenses witchhunt, helping her achieve a 16.9 per
cent swing from left to right.
«However, we substantially cut Labour's majority and achieved a 13 per cent increase in our share of the vote and a 5 per
cent swing against an entirely negative campaign on local issues from the Labour Party.»
However a recent by - election in the Fulwood ward in the heart of the constituency actually saw the Lib Dems increase their majority, with a four
per cent swing away from Labour.
He claimed 40 per cent of the vote at the 2005 election but is holding the country's most marginal seat - a 0.2 per
cent swing would see it go to the Tories.
Enfield Southgate 1997Portillo losing Enfield Southgate on a massive 17.4 per
cent swing to Labour's Stephen Twigg epitomised just how badly the Conservatives had lost that election.
Lembit Opik - Liberal Democrat In a shock result, Lembit Opik lost his Montgomery seat to Conservative Glyn Davies, who secured a massive 13 per
cent swing to take it by just over a thousand votes.
Jacqui Smith - Labour Former home secretary, Jacqui Smith, was ousted from her Redditch seat, with a 9.2 per
cent swing to the Conservatives.
Jim Knight - Labour The work and pensions secretary became another high - profile casualty when he lost his seat of Dorset South with a 9.3 per
cent swing to the Conservatives.
The Tories need a nine per
cent swing to overturn Labour's notional 8,061 majority.
Mr Salmond rose from third place with a 20 per
cent swing to win his seat in Gordon.
Although he succeeded in this, he was defeated by Labour's candidate on a 9.9 per
cent swing.
Labour has won a by - election in Feltham and Heston with a solid eight per
cent swing from the Tories.
Former Lib Dem MP Susan Kramer lost with 25,370 votes (42.8 %) in a seven per
cent swing.
The solicitor - general, Vera Baird, lost her Redcar seat - where the Corus plant was a major casualty of the recession - on a 21 per
cent swing.
However, the Tories did take Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales, with a 6 per
cent swing.
Smith lost her Redditch seat around 4.30 am, after suffering a 9 per
cent swing to the Conservatives, amid speculation that the expenses scandal had helped turn voters against her.
And the swings also looked to be lower in Scotland and Wales - in Vale of Clwyd, 138th on their list of targets, Labour held on with only a 3.5 per
cent swing to the Tories.
The Conservatives are in third place behind the Lib Dems, and need an 18.3 per
cent swing to win.
There was a four per
cent swing to Labour which gained 38 % of the vote.
Check this out, again from Radio 4: «I can tell you that, in over 30 byelections at local level yesterday, Labour only achieved a one per
cent swing to Labour.
22:56 - That being said, Prof John Curtice, who is basically the oracle for this stuff, is saying the four per
cent swing to Labour in that part of the country was about what that exit poll predicted.
Even after the boundary review a 1 per
cent swing from 1992 could be enough to deny the Tories an overall majority.
That amounted to a 12 per
cent swing to the Tories — enough to capture all the key marginals and enough extra to ensure a comfortable overall majority.
That relationship deteriorated even further in the wake of a recent local council by - election result which saw an 11 per
cent swing to Labour.
This is clearly within Labour's reach; even a 3 per
cent swing, which would make Labour the largest party, is within the bounds of possibility.
In a brilliant 1982 article in the British Journal of Political Science Curtice and Steed showed how by the mid-1970s, instead of a net 18 seats changing hands for every one per
cent swing, as the Cube Law would suggest, only 12 seats, or even fewer, switched.
The 4 per
cent swing to the Tories in the key seat of Nuneaton at about 2.30 am brought the nightmare scenario of the BBC exit poll a decisive step closer to reality.
Voting intention Our poll shows in these marginals the Tories are ahead of Labour by 43 per cent to 36 per cent - that's a mirror image of Labour's victories in these seats and a YouGov analysis suggests it amounts to a 9 per
cent swing to the Tories from Labour and a Conservative government with an overall majority of 60 - 70 seats.
Cameron requires an awesome 7 per
cent swing from Labour to Conservative to win this election.
An Ipsos Mori poll of the marginals for Reuters, just out, but conducted between 30 March and 5 April, roughly translates into a 5.5 per
cent swing from Labour to Conservatives, equivalent to about an eight point lead for the Conservatives over Labour nationally.
Yet they still got an almost seven per
cent swing from Labour.
And it's long been high on the Conservatives target list requiring little more than a 3.5 per
cent swing to overturn Kramer's 3,700 seat majority.
Ed Miliband will be delighted with the Corby result, which saw a 12.67 per
cent swing from the Conservatives to Labour.