Sentences with phrase «majority safe seats»

By length of tenure and in great majorities a safe seat status emerged for Labour (on the basis of these standard criteria) in the 1950s and 1960s.

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But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

Let's have safe standing areas in stadiums and relocate the old and young into still the majority of blocks that will be strictly seated only areas and understand that those areas will be stewarded accordingly.

Its also a redistricting year and the Republicans can make a few districts districts safer and combine old marginal districts in the Bronx, Westchester and Queens to keep the majority intact and probably expand it by 2 - 3 seats.

He has served the second - safest seat in the country since 1987, and has a majority of 18,636.

Crosby 1983In the 1981 by - election, Shirley Williams won the Conservative safe seat of Crosby turning a Conservative majority of 19,272 into a Social Democratic Party majority of 5,289.

Ealing Central and Acton has gone from a 274 vote majority to nearly 14,000 - a 25 % majority in what has overnight become a rock solid Labour safe seat.

McMahon also secured a 10,835 majority over UKIP's John Bickley, who was tipped as Labour's strongest contender for the so - called Labour «safe seat» which Labour has held for the last 45 years.

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.

On the other hand, looking at the 2010 data, half of MPs were elected with a majority of 20 % or more, so it's not like there aren't a lot of safe seats out there.

If, on the other hand, the Lib Dems succeed in dismantling Goldsmith's majority in a perceived safe seat, the Lib Dems could undermine the government on Brexit and force Theresa May into concessions.

This is a very safe seat for the SNP, holding a 15.5 % majority against the second placed Liberal Democrats.

This used to be a very safe Labour seat, with, in 2003, a 26.2 % majority.

Stephen Doughty won the Cardiff South poll with a comfortable majority in the notionally safe Labour seat with an impressive eight per cent swing away from the Conservatives.

The old SDP almost won this seat in 1987, but Ronnie Campbell has held it with safe majorities ever since.

His first attempt for Westminster came when he fought the safe Conservative seat of South Kensington in 1959, before being selected for neighbouring Barons Court and winning the 1964 election with a small majority.

Mr Murphy's once - safe majority in East Renfrewshire - a seat he had held for nearly 20 years - was eliminated by the SNP's Kirsten Oswald.

This humiliation was repeated at the subsequent Newark by - election, although the majority of coverage has focused on congratulating the Tories on winning a safe seat and not enough on the fact that the Lib Dem candidate lost his deposit.

In fact, the notional Conservative majority of 16,913 will make it - in percentage terms - the safest Tory seat in the country, according to the projection of Professors Rallings and Thrasher of the University of Plymouth.

Maybe Mrs Balls will relinquish her seat (Pontefract & Castleford - 15,000 odd majority - 18th safest seat) in favour of her husband, interesting idea about Hull East.

In fact, it should only apply to a significant political figure (Portillo was defence secretary) losing a safe seat (he had a majority of 15,563).

In fact, she will bequeath a notional Conservative majority of 16,913, which - in percentage terms - would makes it currently the safest Tory seat in the country, according to the projection of Professors Rallings and Thrasher of the University of Plymouth.

He became the biggest casualty of the night when his once safe majority in East Renfrewshire - a seat he had held for nearly 20 years - was eliminated as the SNP's Kirsten Oswald swept to victory with 23,564 votes to Labour's 19,295.

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.

An increasing majority of parliamentary constituencies are safe seats where, barring some freak event, the result is not in doubt.

This can be considered a safe Plaid Cymru seat, currently having a 20.8 % majority of the Welsh Labour Party.

You can't have a minority safe seat when you need a majority to win.

Note also a couple of wild cards: the safe (ish) Tory seat of the Forest of Dean, where the local press claim that Ukip has seen «a surge in popularity», and Aylesbury, where the Tory Europe minister, David Lidington, has an 11,000 majority, but the unpopularity of the looming HS2 rail line is a big local factor.

Majorities since World War II have been substantial suggesting a safe seat on historic voting preferences.

In 1992 Jonathan Aitken enjoyed an apparently safe 23 % majority here, but in 1997 he lost his seat to Labour «s Stephen Ladyman and subsequently his liberty after being found guilty and jailed for perjury.

The constituency has undergone several boundary changes since its creation in 1918 but has remained a safe Labour seat since the Second World War, with the exception of a by - election in 1969 when Wallace Lawler won the seat for the Liberal Party and immediately surrounding period when its majority was marginal.

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.

His seat remained safe until the 1964 election when Labour cut his majority to around 2,000.

Well, with all seats bar Kensington declared (yes, Labour are in with a chance of winning Tory safe seat Kensington, which has gone to several recounts), Labour sit on 261, up 32 seats from the start of the election, with the Tories denied an outright majority on 317 — having lost a net 13 seats.

[8] Hewitt's constituency of Leicester West is a safe Labour seat, with a majority of 9,070 votes in the 2005 General Election.

Klein damaged the ability of Senate Democrats to win a majority during the primaries this year when he bankrolled the candidacy of Marisol Alcantara, thereby winning her loyalty to the IDC and taking away what had been a safe Democratic seat.

If there are 24 safe or likely seats for the Democrats, then they need to win 8 of the 9 toss - up seats to have an outright majority and control the Senate without the IDC.

Insiders feared the party's 14,738 majority in one of its safest seats could be slashed to under 1,000 in a head - to - head battle with UKIP.

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

Historically, this was very safe Labour seat, held with majorities of more than 30 % by the late Mo Mowlam and Vera Baird, now Police Commissioner for Northumbria.

To the governing party, and slight polls being biased towards labour, unless the Toeies get their core vote too actually turn out, they're panicking about a overall majority, I'm surprised they gave t dug up loony left stories Len Mklusky and Tom Watson trying to buy safe seats, Karen buck, the Toeirs don't want the poor to breed, Andy Newman, Stalin and Chairman Mao, did a great job, there's hundreds of comments out there if the Toeies got desperate,

Dartford is now an ultra-marginal that could fall to the Conservatives even if Labour retain a majority, while Chorley is an increasingly safe Labour seat, so either could well lose their record next time round.

Expectations are so low that holding a safe seat with a reduced majority is now seen as a major success.

The new seat of Witham comprises elements of four former seats and is a notional safe seat with a Conservative majority of approx 7000.

The vast majority of these target seats were held by the Conservatives in 1992, and many of them were reckoned to be very safe, prior to the 1997 defeat.

Does anyone think that in many safe Tory seats at the next general election (Many of which have the Lib Dems in second place) that the Conservatives will be down by less than the Lib Dems, and so there will perhaps be increased majorities in these seats as a direct result, a la 1992?

Politics: Generally a very safe Labour seat, in various guises Salford has consistently returned Labour MPs since 1945, although Hazel Blears «majority fell sharply in 2010 after she became embroiled in the expenses scandal and was targetted by a hostile «Hazel Must Go» campaign.

Great Grimsby was long a very safe Labour seat but Mitchell's majority fell to just 714 at the last election.

Bain is defending a majority of more than 10,000 in the normally safe Labour seat, with the main challenge coming from the Scottish National Party.

The media is also reporting that, in the meantime, Harper plans to fill five vacant senate seats, which will give the Conservatives the majority they need to ensure safe passage of their legislation.