Sentences with phrase «result in safe seats»

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The matter was resolved by persuading a Progressive Conservative member in a safe seat to resign, allowing Getty to run in the resulting by - election and win a place in the provincial assembly.

Based on past election results, enrollment figures, and fundraising totals, it's safe to assume that, barring any unexpected retirements, arrests or other major surprises, 23 seats currently controlled by Democrats, 21 seats controlled by Republicans and each of the five districts held by the IDC will return members of the same party that voters selected in 2014:

A little - reported result of the 2015 general election was a substantial reduction in the number of marginal seats, and a consequent increase in the number of very safe ones for both the Conservatives and Labour.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said the results aren't an indication of things to come — even though the 18th Congressional District seat had been a safe one for Republicans for more than a decade and Trump carried the district by 20 percentage points in 2016.

As usual the first result was in the safe Labour seat of Houghton and Sunderland South.

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

An MP for over thirty years, his elevation to the peerage was intended to create a vacancy in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, who had been defeated in a shock result in the 1964 general election in his Smethwick constituency.

The Conservatives successfully challenged the result in court and the election was re-run, but the perception of being a sore loser saw a huge swing against Malone at the subsequent by - election, making Winchester one of the safest Liberal Democrat seat in the country.

The first MP for that constituency, Eric Forth, moved to the equally safe seat of Bromley and Chislehurst in south east London as a result of major boundary changes in Worcestershire for the 1997 general election, and held that seat until his death in 2006.

His win, in what should have been a safe seat for Labour, was partly the result of Labour and the Conservatives pursuing «biraderi», or clan - based loyalty, Baston suggested.

Britain's first - past - the - post (FPTP) electoral system (in) famously results in marginal and safe seats where many votes are considered «wasted» — but the 2017 General Election has shown just what random results that can throw up.

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?

People driving sports cars are more likely to display the unsafe driving habits that can result in claims: speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, failing to keep safe following distances, failing to wear a seat belt... and the list goes on and on.