Sentences with phrase «one's safe seats»

However, that's always a potential in a district by district election because parties bank votes in Safe Seats.
Would recommend a seat protector that our previous seats came standard with, but I feel confident we have very safe seats for if the worst happens.
The party that controls the state legislature tries to put the opposite party's voters into safe seats, and maximize the number of seats that go to its own party.
Spending $ 3 or $ 4 extra to upgrade to a nicer and safer seat on the train or bus is worth it.
Very safe seat and I believe it rear - faces until 45 pounds.
More and more safety functions — such as the ability to assume safe seating positions whenever there is a risk of an accident — are also being integrated.
We love to travel but finding safe seats can be difficult if you need to call a taxi cab at your destination.
By creating safe seats where parties (whether incumbent in the seat or not) do not bother to campaign, the system creates voters who consequently do not bother to vote.
Conservative safe seats, including several represented by senior party members, will be the worst - off under the government's proposed new national schools funding formula.
An increasing majority of parliamentary constituencies are safe seats where, barring some freak event, the result is not in doubt.
We still have resources concentrated in too many safe seats while target seats struggle.
I thought she would be running for reelection that's a pretty safe seat.
Many, though, will remain in the same old safe seats which have not changed hands for years.
It also still remains at the top of the list for safest seat out there!
No matter how safe the seat can be it is only as safe when properly installed and used.
You can still have majority safe seats, but at least those are won fairly with a majority of votes.
In fact, so - called safe seats can change hands when local voters decide they want change.
You can't have a minority safe seat when you need a majority to win.
It's also because there may come a point where no other party can win and there are enough safe seats left on the list to make victory inevitable.
Or that they then went on to work as «special advisers», before being selected in equally safe seats.
Nevertheless, spending money on a really safe seat for your infant is money well spent.
They have developed one of the best technology named safe seat technology to check and improve the protection.
Most constituencies are occupied by safe seat politicians who see little need to engage with the voters other than at election time or to get a front seat position in their parties.
Only the absolute safest seats pass the ultra strict Swedish Plus Test where most seats end up in pieces on the floor.
This is the least safe seat for young children, and you should never use one with an infant.
Remember, there are no truly safe seats: no candidate in the last election got more than half of all the potential votes in their constituency.
They are both in reasonably safe seats and would have to be part of any future Labour / Lib Dem government.
Many Labour MPs, especially in northern safer seats, oppose the reform.
Increasing the number of safe seats reduces the accountability that comes with political competition and breeds corruption.
More manufacturers are paying attention to safer seat design.
By piling up votes in safe seats, it is harder for the party to win a majority nationally.
A system which gives MPs safe seats for life.
AV will be a good start and will end minority safe seats, tactical voting and split votes.
Speaking to conference this morning, the Scottish Lib Dem leader looked back on a «sensational year» for his party, which included winning the Labour safe seat of Dunfermline and West Fife by a swing of 15 per cent in February.
The expenses scandal did colossal damage, as did the parachuting of party apparatchiks into safe seats with which they had little connection.
Firstly, the lower rate of voter registration in Labour safe seats, as Harry has pointed out, and secondly the differential turnout between Labour and Conservative seats.
Is there any pattern in which party leaders in UK parliaments are typically from safer seats than average MPs?
Races that are dead ties (MO, KY) you've got as safe seats.
But if Labour emerges with 170 seats, the left would need Lewis and Maskell to pull through - plus one more, which is why Corbyn's insiders are so desperate to secure safe seats for allies like Katy Clark.
Relatively safe seats suddenly become open races.
Only then will we also know if the debates did really change the whole political map, turning what were once safe seats into marginals and marginals into safe.
I remember the Blair leadership parachuting their candidates in safe seats so you can not blame the unions when they try to fight back.
Let's look again into that greying, worn, troubled face in Jerusalem and, as in a cinema flashback, see the hair regain its colour and the features set once more into the smile that shattered a host of Tory safe seats.
Labour has failed to win back the formerly safe seat of Blaenau Gwent, as it again fell to independents.
In 2001, her constituency returned to safe seat status with a 19.8 % majority.
Beyond concerns of fairness, this division between safe seats and marginal seats has a corrosive effect on democracy.
Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman has been outlining the party's «new approach» to immigration, after it only just beat UKIP to the previously safe seat of Heywood and Middleton.
Some of them are hoping to bag safe seats, while others have been selected in places where current odds heavily favour them.
It suits too many of the 580 MPs in rock - solid safe seats not to bother much about the mass of non-voting young people and low earners.
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