Sentences with phrase «in safe seats»

Chances are, you are one of the 20 million who live in a safe seat and so won't be hearing much from our parties next year.

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.

However, that's always a potential in a district by district election because parties bank votes in Safe Seats.

They don't want you to have any more say than is absolutely necessary to keep them nice and cosy in their safe seats.

Both major parties have ignored public schools in safe seats.

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

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

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.

Part of its attempt to break the traditional mould of politics would see all potential candidates asked to sign strict term limits, to stop the current practice that sees MPs in safe seats remain in post for decades.

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

I remember the Blair leadership parachuting their candidates in safe seats so you can not blame the unions when they try to fight back.

Targeting the swing voters in marginal constituencies makes sense for politicians running a campaign, but it leaves voters in safe seats out in the cold.

The stereotypically lazy incumbent in a safe seat lost his sinecure.

Particularly in safe seats they can wait until after June 2014 to announce their non-standing within causing upsets..

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.

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.

He is bidding to return as an MP in May in the safe seat of Uxbridge, but claimed Mr Cameron's intervention was «no big deal».

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.

Another consideration is that every single election will have to be recounted to make sure you have the exact numbers, because it will matter whether that incumbent in a safe seat got 79 % or 80 % of the vote.

Sen. Michael Nozzolio, a Republican in a safe seat, is retiring.

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.

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.

«If anything, these figures underestimated the number of votes that did not elect anyone in this election because they don't take into account the number of excess votes cast in safe seats,» deputy director of Unlock Democracy Alexandra Runswick said.

FPTP can result in safe seats.

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.

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.

At worst, by giving some of the most badly behaved MPs in safe seats renewed terms of office, a rushed election now could actually entrench the problem.

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

Kudos to Mr. Carter for taking on a well - known senator in a safe seat and giving up his own seat to do so.

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.

Democrats had a primary in a safe seat of their own Tuesday night.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the next general election a Corbyn led Labour Party will win back the seats from the traitors in safe seats.

It seems to be people in safe seats defecting, believing that it will be a cakewalk to get re-elected as UKIP because the Conservatives will not seriously contest those seats.

In a rare move for a senator running for re-election and a congressman in a safe seat, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Sean P. Duffy, released a joint ad Tuesday, an effort that could help both of their political fortunes.

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

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

Legislators with leadership aspirations in safe seats have always assisted their more vulnerable colleagues.