Sentences with phrase «in the seat where»

To this day, if I see your child in the back (the basket as I call it) of the cart and you have NOTHING in the seat where the seat belt is, I'm going to stop you and tell you my daughter's story.

It occurs that I should probably source that - Observer, 23 Dec 2007, column by Denis MacShane entitled «An open letter to Nick Clegg»: «Before the 2001 election, I urged Labour voters in seats where Lib - Dem candidates were best placed to beat off Conservatives to vote tactically.

Scotland's Big Voice aims to persuade people they need to vote for a party other than the one they support in seats where doing so could blunt the nationalist threat.

The group has around 2,000 supporters on Facebook and says it is planning to begin door - knocking in seats where it thinks tactical voting could make a difference.

Many of them will be concentrated in seats where the Conservatives, in particular, are vulnerable.

Significant numbers of Labour supporters may be willing to vote tactically for the Lib Dems in seats where the Conservatives are the second largest party, the poll found.

The Ukip vote there was up 13.4 %, providing 7,951 votes in a seat where just 422 decided it.

@Watchman and others — targetting the Tories will do very well in seats where either the Lib Dems are defending against them or in three - way seats where Labour has little to no chance.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

In seats where Ukip are already well - established thanks to local election and byelection success, there will be a large pool of voters they can appeal to in their attempts to build a winning Westminster coalition in 2015.»

The Conservatives» remarkable success in converting coalition into majority government is down to two factors: this was the first governing party to increase its vote share after a full term in office for more than a century and it succeeded in concentrating that vote increase in the seats where it counted.

In seats where Labour is defending a majority of more than 25 points the swing in the poll from Labour to the SNP since 2010 is 24 points, rather higher than the 19.5 point swing for Scotland as a whole.

In the general election, UKIP dropout is likely to help the Conservatives a little in those seats where UKIP did well last time, but in most places the dropout effect may well be negligible.

The last round of battleground polling I published found one clear Conservative lead and three very close races in seats where the Tory majority over Labour was between 8.8 % and 10.6 %.

This was first explained in my North Norfolk prediction and my current version assumes that residual UKIP voters will split 2:1 between the Conservatives & Labour in seats where UKIP have stood down.

Some voters may also hear a patronising message to the effect that they are too dim to understand the consequences of their vote — and many live in seats where UKIP present the only prospect of removing a sitting Labour MP.

Some are voting tactically in seats where it is a two horse race, others are looking for a new electoral home after the betrayal of Nick Clegg in entering a coalition with the Tories.

The polls of Conservative - held Ukip targets found the party failing to make breakthroughs even in seats where they won their best results in last year's European elections.

A Liberal Democrat defeat, in a seat where they trailed Labour by only 103 votes last May, would inevitably increase the pressure on Mr Clegg from the doubters in his party, which is used to winning by - elections rather than losing them.

I imagine that any extra donations to association funds would be especially welcome right now in a seat where Gareth is seeking to oust a first - term Lib Dem MP who is defending a three - figure majority.

But in those seats where it came second in the by - election (as UKIP has done in Eastleigh), it went on to lose almost half its vote share at the next general election.

But if they're wise enough to vote Liberal Democrat at the next local elections in Hull, or for the Conservatives in any seat where we are well - placed to defeat Labour, then they will have a council that is fulfilling its statutory duty.

Women can only be elected in new gains or in seats where they replace retiring incumbents.

It does not do Oakeshott, or his ideas of a progressive alliance, much good if Liberal Democrat supporters do not vote Labour in the seats where he has donated money to Labour, or vice-versa.

The intervention, which reflects the thinking of English Lib Dem MPs in seats where they face Eurosceptic pressure, has deeply annoyed Nick Clegg who does not want to reveal his hand before possible coalition negotiations.

He's recognised that the opportunities now are against Labour, in seats where the Cons are third place and the voters just as fed up with Brown as anywhere else, and looking for someone else to vote for.

Elsewhere, both Labour and the Tories had consolidated their positions in seats where they had previously led.

In a seat where national issues exactly reflected the concerns of those on the doorstep, Foster breathed a weary sigh as the door closed.

Both men look to have a good chance in seats where Labour are defending slim majorities, with the national polls looking ominous for Jeremy Corbyn's party.

It's a clear theme emerging across the country in seats where Labour MPs facing tough fights live side - by - side with Conservative councils.

You can see that marginals do behave a little differently sometimes — the Conservatives managed a better swing in their target Labour marginals in 2010, Labour did better in those seats where they had fresh incumbency in 2001 — but the differences aren't huge.

Lord Ashcroft's polling of Lib Dem seats shows them doing far worse in LD - v - Lab seats than in seats where they are up against the Tories.

In practice of course we can't actually be that confident that voters in a tight LD - Lab marginal will behave the same way as in a seat where the Lib Dems have a 20 % majority, so it's a bit of a shame Ashcroft didn't include some more challenging LD - Lab fights like Cambridge, Hornsey & Wood Green or Bermondsey.

In seats where they are up against Labour the swing is bigger, the tactical / incumbency boost is smaller, and the Lib Dems face wipeout.

In the south London seat of Tooting, Sadiq Khan only increased his lead by 300 votes in a seat where a much stronger result was expected.

Channel 4 News spoke to former MPs who lost their marginal seats in May and to candidates who lost, despite standing in seats where there had been a sitting Labour MP.They all aspire to win back the seats Labour will need to secure if the party is to return to government.

Normally this has a huge effect in seats where the Liberal Democrats are in contention, and very little effect in seats where they aren't.

According to Labour's selection timetable, Prospective Parliamentary Candidates in seats where the MP has stood down, are being chosen by the NEC between Sunday 23rd April and Friday 28th April and in seats without Labour MPs, between Sunday April 30th and Tuesday May 2nd.

She requires a swing of 6.5 % to overturn the notional Labour majority of 5,358 in a seat where the popular Labour incumbent, Andrew Mackinlay, is standing down.

Don't vote Labour in seats where the Lib Dems best challenge Cameron.

But at the same point, in a seat where, again, 2,500 more Republicans voted, Good doesn't win by winning a sizable number of Republicans.

They very roughly are for the Conservatives and UKIP, but the Liberal Democrats are clearly loosing most in the seats where they started strongest and losing least where they started weakest.

In seats where Leave was a majority last June the formula can work — in both the recent by - elections the Leave vote seen as Tory plus UKIP was greater than Labour and Lib Dem combined, and it is clear why Labour is worried.

Channel 4 News spoke to former MPs who lost their marginal seats in May and to candidates who lost, despite standing in seats where there had been a sitting Labour MP.

Now, a new survey by ConservativeHome, has found that 55 per cent of Tory members are open to a «non-aggression pact» between the coalition partners in seats where they are first and second - placed, with 11 per cent describing such an agreement as «ideal».

The reason for the difference is most likely tactical considerations — people answer Labour to a normal voting intention question because that's the party they really support, but know that they happen to live in a seat where Labour could never win, so actually vote Liberal Democrat.

He said the shift involved a Tory tendency to win in marginal seats and a greater distribution of Labour voters in seats where it was pipped by third parties, adding: «It is these last two things which has turned a system that once looked as if it was to the advantage of Labour to the Tories» advantage, and there is a boundary review to come.

Theresa Villiers has done a fine job with her pro-green transport policy that should reap great benefits in seats where we face Lib Dem competition.

This is something that was first used in the big PoliticsHome polls of marginal seats back before the last election — it makes hardly any difference when you ask people in most seats, but makes the world of difference when you ask people living in seats where the Lib Dems are in contention, presumably picking up tactical voting considerations.

Mr Bell - who ousted Neil Hamilton in Tatton in 1997 and sat as an MP for one term - has not said that he would necessarily stand himself, but discloses that he and Mr Waite are setting up «an unprecedented network of independent parliamentary candidates» to stand in seats where the sitting MP has a «dodgy record» on expenses.