Sentences with phrase «one's old constituency»

John Howell, MP for Johnson's old constituency of Henley - on - Thames, also put the boot in with some force.
The civil - rights revolution, the fading of the bosses, and the Goldwaterite takeover of the Republican party moved many of them into the Democratic camp, where, over time, they were bound to push some of the party's old constituencies out.
This began to change during the rule of the Hindu nationalists, who proved themselves as adept in working with big businessmen as in holding on to its older constituency of small merchants and readers.
The United Church of Christ and the Church of Christ, Scientist, have the oldest constituencies, with mean ages of more than 50.
Several eminently sensible Tory MPs near my old constituency rebelled just to curry favour with their anti-European activists and selectorate — people described by one senior Tory as «swivel - eyed loons».
Despite Greater London being created in 1965 the old constituency boundaries remained in place until 1974.
This inherited the bulk of his old constituency, with the exception of the town which had given it its name.
[25] In June 2013 he announced plans to return to politics standing in his old constituency but this time for the Welsh Assembly.
The affluent seat previously held by George Osborne and Neil Hamilton is some 46 miles from her old constituency.
Analysts say that UKIP might have identified 270 seats that are more winnable than Rochester and Strood, but there are unlikely to be 270 candidates at the next general election who are former Conservative MPs fighting their old constituencies under the UKIP label.
These changes are being imposed with Maoist speed and will break up many natural communities in the interest of arithmetic, slicing across estuaries, adding islands to blobs of the mainland, and destroying the identity of old constituencies.
Boundary changes: the link between the boroughs of Ealing and Hammersmith & Fulham comes to and end, meaning that the new seat loses the parts of the old constituency that fell under the Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham — primarily Shepherd «s Bush and White City.
Campaigners had sparked frenzied speculation yesterday by calling for supporters to go to his old constituency of Morley & Outwood for a surprise rally.
Votes in the old constituencies are allocated between the new constituencies using local election results as a guide.
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