Sentences with phrase «perhaps in safe seats»

Open primaries are used extensively for candidate selection in the United States, but have no place here, except perhaps in safe seats.

Not exact matches

We have often had, I think, these relationships going only one way (only helping the marginal), where perhaps what we could do would be to have the marginal helping the safe seat in less crucial times and safe helping marginal in run - up to elections.

These sorts of distortion can be caused by several factors, including tactical voting (as perhaps in Birmingham), electoral pacts (as perhaps in North East Lincolnshire), one party piling up votes in safe seats but losing out in marginals (as in Leeds), or turnout being particularly low in one party's safe seats (as in Sefton).

Any one of the aspiring leaders, or indeed Harriet Harman as acting leader, could have pressed for the referendum to include a further, better, option, perhaps that of STV; but none of them was prepared to do so, not least because going to the Parliamentary Labour party offering a system that would really end safe seats would reduce MP support in the leadership election itself.

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?

I think it's safe to say that 2017 is looking like it's going to be a year of big changes and perhaps some uncertainty that will have even the top - selling indie authors shifting nervously in their seats.

In circumstances where many Middle Eastern counterparties require that the parties choose a regional seat for their arbitration clause, Dubai offers perhaps the safest and most practical seats for arbitration.