Sentences with phrase «in a safe seat»

Clark may be challenged by the embarrassment of being defeated by the upstart human rights lawyer and having to lead her party from the visitor's gallery until some Liberal stalwart steps down to create a byelection opportunity for her in a safe seat.

After a while (probably a long while) my parents put me in the basement in a safe seat on the table in the laundry room.

Hoffman recommends keeping your child in the safest seat option for as long as possible and moving to the next step only when you absolutely have to.

This cushion is easy to clean and provides a soft booster, while the three - point harness secures your baby in a safe seated position.

In reality, the real battle to choose the next MP in the safe seats happened years, months and weeks ago.

In other words, the next MP in a safe seat is chosen by probably a couple of hundred people (at most)- and those people are the most hardcore activists.

If you live in a safe seat, then chances are that your vote in the general election won't matter.

It is also not surprising that many current MPs are opposed to electoral reform, given that they are the ones with most to lose from it, particularly those in safe seats.

The matter was resolved by persuading a Progressive Conservative member in a safe seat to resign, allowing Getty to run in the resulting by - election and win a place in the provincial assembly.

Besides the fact that AV doesn't do much to stop this (in the safest seats, MPs tend to get big percentages of the vote anyway), it's another continuation of the idea that we can get reforms passed on the back of public anger towards MPs over the expenses scandal.

The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.

But the current thinking in both No10 and the mayor's office is that Boris will stand in a safe seat in May next year.

Michael Cocks, then Chief Whip and clearly more ruthless and self - interested than Tony, had stitched up his own selection in the safer seat of the two into which Tony's Bristol seat had been divided in boundary changes.

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.

Why should an MP in a safe seat have a job for life?

Voters in marginal constituencies like Glenda Jackson's Hampstead and Kilburn know more about parties» policy positions than those in safe seats like Gordon Brown's Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath, according to research carried out by the University of Nottingham's Caitlin Milazzo.

These disproportionalities aside, the unfairness of the system can be seen in the 25.7 million people who we, at the Electoral Reform Society, estimated lived in safe seats earlier this year It can also be seen in the approximately three million people who felt they had to vote tactically, or the almost three quarters of votes which were wasted in this election — i.e. they didn't contribute to electing an MP.

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

«If you think you are in a safe seat, watch out,» he warns.

Or the impact that defeating Labour in a safe seat in a northern stronghold had on the Labour Party and Gordon Brown's floundering administration.

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.

Obviously this site could have the opposite effect in safe seats such as Knowsley where there voting power is roughly 100x weaker than the average UK voter and hence could lead people not to vote.

Meanwhile, if you live in a safe seat, like Tottenham, the communication is so sparse you could be forgiven for not even knowing there is an election on at all.

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

Dr Middleton's research is about low - key campaigns in safe seats.

The constituency system combined with first - past - the - post voting brings other problems and grievances in its train, especially the issue of «wasted votes» in safe seats.

Reformers say too many votes are effectively wasted in safe seats where either Labour or Conservatives have large, in - built majorities, and this depresses turnout.

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

For such a long time British politics has felt predictable to voters in safe seats and voting at all has felt pointless, but now we are seeing big political figures losing their seats as Scotland turns from red to yellow.

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.

These sorts of distortion can be caused by several factors, including tactical voting (as perhaps in Birmingham), electoral pacts (as perhaps in North East Lincolnshire), one party piling up votes in safe seats but losing out in marginals (as in Leeds), or turnout being particularly low in one party's safe seats (as in Sefton).

The party announced this week that it was taking control of the selection process in the safe seat of Falkirk after allegations of foul play by Unite.

If he'd has his eye on a cabinet seat I'd guess he'd have made considerable attempts to secure nomination in a safe seat in time for the next general election.

The Winterton's «only following the rules, guv» approach is typical of the arrogance of privilege that seems all too common among MPs that sit in safe seats they have held for decades.

An MP for over thirty years, his elevation to the peerage was intended to create a vacancy in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, who had been defeated in a shock result in the 1964 general election in his Smethwick constituency.

The suppression of membership stats is undoubtedly down to the significant falls even in safe seats: I have lived in two safe Kent Conservative seats in the last 3 years and membership has fallen appreciably in both.

Received wisdom - also left in tatters by this election - holds that Labour's vote is piled up in its safe seats.

Differential turnout, with Labour voters less likely to turnout both in safe seats and in unwinnable seats.

If that meant finding another seat for the excellent James Brokenshire I am sure someone in a safe seat would have been willing to take a Peerage and make way for him at the next General Election.

Under the first past the post electoral system, many Labour votes were «wasted» as part of large majorities for MPs in safe seats rather than into holding onto marginal seats.

Now 42, Dutton contested his first election as a 19 year - old, running against state Labor Deputy Leader Tom Burns in his safe seat of Lytton at the 1989 election that brought the Goss government to office.

None of these are «the answer» to the great disconnect, but while Westminster fails to do all it can, we know its MPs sit too complacently in their safe seats.

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

By piling up votes in safe seats, it is harder for the party to win a majority nationally.

As it happens the Conservative - Labour swing in marginals was much the same as it was in safe seats in 2005, but the changes in the parties votes was different — both the Conservatives and Labour did better in their key marginals than elsewhere, it's just their mutual improved performances cancelled each other out!

The blood of some Tory MPs is up, especially in safer seats.

As for voters, a common refrain from users of the Dashboard when they see that they live in a safe seat of a party they don't support is «well, what's the point in turning up then?».

It is worrying that discovering one is in a safe seat may put some people off voting, but ultimately it is important for people to be informed that their vote isn't being valued as it should be.

After all, I can't remember anyone at the height of the expenses scandal saying «If only we had AV...» Proponents of AV also claim that a new system would get supposedly lazy MPs in safe seats to work harder.

He is absolutely not in a safe seat but he stuck his neck out for the Yeas...