Sentences with phrase «large rural seat»

Profile: A large rural seat covering the south - eastern part of Wiltshire, it includes part of the West Wiltshire Downs AONB and the New Forest in the south, then the southern part of Salisbury plain, including Stonehenge.

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The community I call Corinth, 1 the town in which I spent my sabbatical year, has changed during the last thirty years from a rural, rather backward county seat town into a satellite community for a large metropolitan area.

This reflects the rural and Southern domination of the Conservative party in general, and the great success of the election in particular; winning 100 new seats and coming out as the country's largest party both by popular vote and the number of seats.

Politics.co.uk initially focused on battleground seats between the two main parties, constituencies in large cities, and a handful of more suburban and rural safe seats that were picked up along the way.

The large majority of the seats were held by independent candidates, similar to other predominantly rural Scottish councils.

In many cases, larger constituency units have come about as a result of a loss of seats — whether it be the loss of a European Parliament seat by the Republic of Ireland or the loss of County Council seats by some (of the more rural) counties — added to the overall increase in seat numbers for City and County Council elections.

In broad terms the large northern cities, and London, have lost seats to the rural south of England, as its population grows.