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To protect itself from price swings, WestJet has hedged roughly 20 per cent of its planned jet fuel needs for the year through futures contracts, which allow it to buy fuel at set prices down the road.

This acceleration is partly due to the very expansionary monetary and fiscal policy settings that have been in place for some time, with the federal funds rate at 1 per cent, and the federal fiscal balance swinging from a surplus of 2 1/2 per cent of GDP in 2000 to a 3 1/2 per cent deficit in 2003.

Power originates with a dedicated few; Jan Smuts estimated that if 5 per cent of any body of people is wholly convinced about anything, that number can swing the rest.

Treasury Wine Estates chief executive Mike Clarke will start swinging the axe within the nation's biggest winemaker on Monday as 5 per cent of the workforce is culled in the first phase of an earnings turnaround plan.

Now in this season as he goes about the business of proving that he is worth every cent of his contract (he has thrown nine touchdown passes and put the Jets in first place in the American Football League's Eastern Division through five games), he is becoming the quarterback that Werblin gambled he would be — a throwing artist who may eventually rank with the best — and he is still a swinger.

Although Scotland never got their equalising goal, they did improve on the first half's solitary shot on target and three total attempts with a further two on target and eight in total, as well as a swing in possession, from 43 - 57 per cent in favour of Costa Rica to 59 - 41 per cent to the home side.

Just one per cent of the electorate - less than half a million voters in marginal swing seats - determined the outcome of the last general election.

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.

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.

Once you take all those people away, you are left with just eight per cent of people who are not already voting Tory and for whom the issue has at least the potential to swing their vote.

Swings from Tory to Labour of ten per cent are visible around the country.

Liberal Democrat Simon Wood took the seat with a majority of just 310, a four per cent swing from Labour to Lib Dem.

It was a swing of 6.9 per cent to the Tory candidate Nicola Blackwood.

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.

Bill Rammell - Labour The armed forces minister also lost his seat of Harlow to the Conservatives after a swing of 5.9 per cent.

Barring a substantial shift in the last few days of campaigning — which seems unlikely given that 91 per cent of Labour voters say they probably will not change their minds — we can expect a swing from the Liberal Democrats to Labour of around 8 per cent since the general election.

A 23 % lead from 2013 has turned into a near - six per cent reverse - a massive swing of around 15 % to the Tories.

The nationalists received a swing of 4.96 per cent, but it was not enough to challenge Labour's grip on the constituency.

69 per cent say the new leader should defend the record of the previous government, especially on the economy; swing voters say this would make them less likely to consider supporting Labour.

Mr Joyce suffered a seven per cent swing away from Labour to the SNP in 2010, but maintains a majority of over 15 %.

What we can see, however, is that a 30 % Labour lead has shrunk to ten per cent - that's a big swing, only a small part of which is explained by the Tories fielding more candidates this time around.

«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.»

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.

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.

Rallings & Thrasher say he needs a swing of 19.9 per cent to gain the seat.

The Conservatives are in third place with 9.4 per cent of the vote and Nick would require a swing of over 30 per cent to win the constituency.

«On a uniform swing across the country, the Tories would get 278 MPs if they scoop 37 per cent of the vote.

Cunningham goes into the next election, under slightly redrawn boundaries, with a notional majority of 8,226, according to the calculations of Professors Rallings and Thrasher of the University of Plymouth, meaning that Judith would require a swing of 11.5 per cent to oust him.

But then the SNP did win previously safe - as - houses Glasgow East from Labour at the by - election earlier in the summer on a swing of over 20 per cent, and they start with an advantage in Glenrothes in that the party already holds the almost identical Fife Central seat in the Scottish Parliament.

If the swing of 16.49 per cent attained at Norwich North were replicated at the general election, the following cabinet ministers would lose their seats: Jim Murphy, Alistair Darling, Ben Bradshaw, Jack Straw, John Denham, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander.

His party started here with a far better infrastructure than in Glasgow East (which they won in July on a swing of over 20 per cent) and the confidence exuded by the SNP campaign all the way until polling day suggests that they too will have been flabbergasted by the extent of Labour's victory, on a swing to the SNP of a mere 5 per cent.

The Rallings and Thrasher projection (based on the 2005 general election result) of the seat after minor boundary changes suggests that Heppell will go into the general election defending a notional majority of 7,083 over the Conservatives, with Ewan requiring a swing of a little over 12 per cent to take the seat.

There was a four per cent swing to Labour which gained 38 % of the vote.

Ashcroft's polling showed that in Lib Dem - Tory contested seats, there was a swing of just two per cent to the Tories.

These seats - Labour - held constituencies the Tories need to take if they want a workable majority - need a swing of at least three to seven per cent for them to go blue.

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.

The swing was from Labour to the Conservatives of three per cent.

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.

Two subsequent polls that autumn and winter recorded swings of 8 per cent and 9 per cent.

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.

Melanie will require a swing of a little over 16 per cent to take the seat, which was held between 1982 and 1997 by Dame Angela Rumbold for the Conservatives.

Eaton wrote,» To achieve a majority of one (326), Labour now needs a modest swing of 3.57 per cent.

Between 2008 and 2010, I worked for now Party Chairman Grant Shapps, helping him to take his own majority from 5,946 to 17,423 — a swing of 11.1 per cent, or just over double the Party's national average.

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 Conservatives need a swing of around three per cent to take the seat from Labour's David Chaytor.

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.

In addition, there is new ICM poll of 96 Labour marginals in which the Conservatives need a swing of between 4 per cent and 10 per cent to take the seat.

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.