Sentences with phrase «number of constituency labour»

But Unite and others now boast of «their» MPs, and have reportedly tried to seize ever more influence within a number of Constituency Labour Parties.

David Miliband currently enjoys the support of the largest number of MPs (101, after the Cruddas endorsement) and the highest number of Constituency Labour Parties (165).

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However, we could adopt a closed primary system where registered Labour supporters (of which there are a considerable number in each constituency - 1000 or more in many cases) could take part.

As the final numbers came in, the current leader was said to have secured the backing of 285 Constituency Labour Parties.

The warped statistics will also mean the boundary changes review coming next year will redraw Britain's electoral map in favour of the Conservatives, enlarging rural constituencies and shrinking the total number of the urban ones with mobile populations that usually favour Labour.

The Blairist targeting of Middle England saw a healthy number of swing constituencies fall into Labour's hands.

In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.

Backbenchers will request a meeting with Mandelson, hoping to persuade him of the political arguments against a third runway, and remind him of the number of Labour MPs in marginal constituencies in its vicinity who would suffer at the ballot box.

In the Commons yesterday, Labour's Jack Straw quizzed Nick Clegg's Tory deputy, Mark Harper, on whether the reduction is seat numbers would respect historic boundaries and whether the Isle of Wight would be broken up as a constituency with a second seat covering people on the island and the English mainland.

The Lib Dem collapse in Wales reached the point where they finished behind the British National party (BNP) in a number of constituencies, but their five seats could leave them as prospective coalition partners for Labour.

The reason the boundary changes helped the Tories was that they sharply reduced the number of constituencies in Labour's heartlands.

Despite this, further small swings to the party in a number of Dail constituencies could see further seat gains being made by Labour, as the map above suggests.

On these national support figures and assuming they would be contesting at least thirty constituencies, the Labour Party would need a lot of luck to win more than one or two seats in terms of their total number of seats at a general election contest.

However, the fractured political landscape (in particular relating to the likely level of Fine Gael and Labour seat losses) and the favourable impact of the boundary changes associated with the 2012 Constituency Commission report means that Fianna Fail would achieve more success in translating these support levels into Dail seat numbers than they had at the 2011 contest.

In all, a small swing to Labour (of 2 %, or less) from other parties could see further seat gains fall into the party's hands in a number constituencies (highlighted by the yellow shaded constituencies on the map), with a particular cluster of these target constituencies being located in the Munster region.

But on these constituency - estimate figures outlined in these analyses Labour Party candidates would find themselves polling below candidates from Sinn Fein, the Socialist Party, the Workers and Unemployed Action Group or the People Before Profit Alliance, or left - leaning independents, in a number of constituencies.

It could be a routine hold for Labour in a constituency they have dominated forever, proving that rumours of the party's demise have been greatly exaggerated; it could be the route to Westminster for Paul Nuttall (for whom this is the fifth attempt to get into the Commons — still short of Nigel Farage's number), heralding the beginning of a big Ukip surge into working - class Labour heartlands; it could end up with a very close three -(or even four -, depending on Liberal Democrat performance) way race that shows the new divides in the electorate in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

Of course Plaid is in serious competition with Labour in Mid and West Wales and in a number of constituencies elsewhere, leading it to differentiate itself from LabouOf course Plaid is in serious competition with Labour in Mid and West Wales and in a number of constituencies elsewhere, leading it to differentiate itself from Labouof constituencies elsewhere, leading it to differentiate itself from Labour.

Her constituency, and the surrounding borough of Waltham Forest, as well as the neighbouring borough of Leyton and Wanstead, has a large number both of new members, inspired either to join or return to Labour by Jeremy Corbyn, plus a strong existing network of leftwing groupings and minor parties.

In our analysis of the constituency results, John Curtice, Robert Ford and I noted,» Constituencies containing a relatively large number of people working in the public sector proved to be relatively loyal to Labour.

Labour appears to have been thrown into turmoil by the announcement, which mixed policies they campaigned on at the election with a more radical attempt to reduce the number of MPs in the Commons, equalise constituency sizes, get rules on «no confidence» motions on the statute book and introduce an ability for parliament to dissolve parliament.

At Labour's conference in Manchester next week, delegates will be debating and voting on a number of key changes to the party's rule book, tabled both by the national executive and by constituency parties.

So we face three problems: the decline in the number of people willing to join a political party; the particular impact this has had in safe Labour seats and some marginals because we organise on a constituency - by - constituency basis; and the way in which our organisation focuses on the next Election to the exclusion of all else.

The cut in the number of parliamentary seats will fall disproportionately on urban constituencies in England and Wales — Labour's heartland — while Individual Electoral Registration will aggravate the social bias of the electoral registers.

It will be surprising if her party's lead over Labour is not increased by at least 30 seats, which will probably ensure a Commons majority of about 90 — a solid foundation for the 2022 election, which will probably be fought in new constituencies likely to boost the Tory lead over Labour by at least another 20 seats despite the reduction by 50 in the number of MPs.

A huge number of votes for the Scottish Nationalists over Labour has led to some historic voting swings in formerly solid Labour constituencies.

The Labour leader's north London constituency would be split in two under the sweeping changes, and the number of MPs cut from 650 to 600.

A number of MPs campaigned differently from the way their constituency voted, for example the Labour MP for Vauxhall, Kate Hoey, who backed Brexit, while only 22 % of her constituents voted to leave.

Initial proposals put forward today by the Boundary Commission would see approximately 25 Labour - held seats, including Mr Corbyn's Islington North constituency, abolished, with radical changes to a number of others.

The Conservatives lost six seats in the capital, losing Battersea, Croydon Central, Enfield Southgate and Kensington to Labour, who saw its majorities increase in a number of constituencies.