Sentences with phrase «heartlands seat»

Or it could be because they are a former special adviser who was «parachuted into a safe Labour heartlands seat during a Blair era by - election».

By 2010, these seats tended to have smaller electorates than Conservative heartland seats.

Even so, the prospect of losing heartland seats will be a blow to Labour's hopes: every seat they lose in Scotland means another they have to win from the Conservatives in England, while the national polls could not be much narrower.

This would have broken the stranglehold of floating voters in Middle England marginals over the political centre of gravity, and would have rewarded Labour for mobilising support in its working - class heartland seats.

Not exact matches

Bazi has had a front row seat to the decade - long assault and persecution that has nearly eradicated Christianity from its ancient heartland.

Some may argue that Labour can afford to lose some support in its heartlands so long as it does well where it needs to win seats at the next general election.

Well, we came last in a metropolitan by - election; we came fourth (down from second) in heartland; and last night we lost a council seat in Sunderland to the Lib Dems.

Labour's success has seen them regain heartland territory in Blaenau Gwent and pick up symbolic seats from Plaid Cymru like Llanelli.

But from those that were, we can see a picture that is both grim and variable - Labour losing its ultra-marginals, in with half a chance of clinging onto one or two slightly more solid marginals, in danger of losing some of its semi-marginals, and at risk of losing rock solid safe seats in long - standing Labour heartlands.

Ronnie Campbell has been around for three decades and presumably has a personal vote he can call on - the idea of the Tories actually winning such a heartland Labour seat seems absurd.

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

There are heartland and liberal voters in every marginal seat: it will take a positive agenda to secure them.

Profile: The most Catholic seat in Northern Ireland, the heartland of Republicanism and the poorest and most depressed in Northern Ireland.

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,

There are «heartland» and liberal voters in every marginal seat.

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood celebrated a famous victory after she took the seat of Rhondda from Labour in its south Wales heartlands.

The Liberal Democrats face a squeeze from both main parties; Labour inching back in their urban heartlands and the Tories winning a few seats from them through active lovebombing.

In a further blow, Labour last night lost a council seat in a traditional heartland to the Conservatives.

Burnham, a well - known figure in the Labour party running in the party's heartlands, was always expected to win the seat.

«Copeland was not a good result, it is a heartland we have had control of for many years, but it is a marginal [seat] and has been since 1997.

However boundary changes, which have wrapped it closer around nationalist heartlands near Downpatrick and the Mournes have transformed South Down into a safe nationalist seat.

Speaking to the BBC after the result was announced, Paul Nuttall said he wanted to win «at least» ten seats at the next general election, and set out how he would target Labour heartlands.

With their south western heartland and rural seats so vulnerable can he divert scarce resources to expansionary campaigning?

Meanwhile, Labour lost a council seat in a traditional heartland last night following a massive swing to the pro-EU Liberal Democrats.

The reason no seats have been chosen in Labour heartlands in Scotland and Wales, London and the North is that, since the effect of future boundary changes may be considerable, the party wishes to offer protection to sitting MPs who may be displaced or find that their seats become less secure for Labour.

These are Labours heartlands where the Tories won seats when Thatcher was the last Tory leader.

Squeezed by the Tories in their south west London heartlands and by Labour in their inner city seats, the Lib Dems were left with just one London MP; punished, they believe, for their role in the coalition government.

Labour was squeezed in its north west heartland on Friday morning when Ukip came within 617 votes of capturing the safe seat of Heywood and Middleton.

The cut in the number of parliamentary seats will fall disproportionately on urban constituencies in England and Wales — Labour's heartland — while Individual Electoral Registration will aggravate the social bias of the electoral registers.

He led from the front in Crewe and at the local elections and managed a 17.6 % in a heartland Labour seat and beat Labour by 20 % nationally in the local elections.

Another MP defending a seat in the traditional Labour heartlands said Corbyn's leadership had come up repeatedly in encounters with voters in recent days — and far more strongly than during the 2015 campaign.

Polltroll — they're in a rather awkward position at the nomen between Scottish Labour surging up back to where they were in 2011, the Conservatives certainly back in play in the vast majority of seats they took in 1979, and the Lib Dems ahead in some key heartland constituencies.

Labour opposes the reduction, which would cut the number of seats in its urban heartlands and result in the party losing more seats than the Tories.

However, Nuttall's gamble of standing himself failed to come off as Labour's Gareth Snell won the seat with a majority of 2,620, raising questions as to whether Ukip could take seats from Labour in its traditional heartlands.

The music too, is initially sweet and welcome but as the film wears on the «heartland America» vibe starts to grate in its heavy - handedness — one particular musical motif becomes especially insistent as time goes on, and if we were feeling unkind we could liken its use to having someone in the seat next to you repeat the word «bittersweet» in your ear ad infinitum, in case you weren't too sure how you should be feeling.

Even from a cramped seat in the back of a tour bus, the heartland of Scotland is beautiful — but the John Muir Way is one of the best places for visitors to step out and really experience this amazing wilderness.