Sentences with phrase «seat majority constituencies»

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Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

Labour have continued to win seats in their core constituencies because the majority of their old supporters refuse to vote for other parties but those are slowly dying off.

Then in 2011, Lothian's constituencies were engulfed in the SNP tidal wave, except Edinburgh North and Leith which the popular Malcolm Chisholm held for Labour with a slim majority over Shirley - Anne Somerville (who lost her seat on the list because of that wave of success but looks set to return as the representative for Dunfermline).

Field held the seat with a majority of 5,909 and has remained the constituency's MP since then.

Labour candidate Michael McMahon is the incumbent in the Uddingston and Bellshill constituency, although he had only a slim majority of 2.8 % in 2011, making this a key target seat for the SNP.

Sitting pretty Stephen Timms, MP for East Ham, needn't worry about his seat too much, as he had a record - breaking majority of 27,826 — it's larger than the UK's smallest constituency electorate in its entirety.

She returns to contest the seat again, defending a 14.1 majority from Labour's new candidate in the constituency, Claudia Beamish.

Crosby's realisation that Lib Dem seats could be taken and that voters in those constituencies were persuadable, especially when the polls indicated a Labour majority supported by the SNP, to vote Conservative.

If this were repeated in every constituency, Labour would gain enough seats to come close to an outright majority, even if it loses badly in Scotland.

Allen was elected as the Labour MP for the Nottingham North constituency at the 1987 general election, gaining the seat from the Conservative's Richard Ottaway with a majority of 1,665 votes.

Outcome (Based on polling tracker, assuming national swing reproduced in every constituency) Conservatives: 239 seats Labour: 265 seats Liberal Democrat: 115 seats Other: 31 seats Labour short of an overall majority by 61.

And of the target seats which would deliver a Tory majority of the Commons of around 40, all but three of the thirteen constituencies in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region are in West Yorkshire:

Mark Williams, then - Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, was defeated at the 2017 general election in his Ceredigion constituency by Ben Lake of Plaid Cymru, whose majority of 104 made the seat one of the most marginal in the country.

These seats - Labour - held constituencies the Tories need to take if they want a workable majority - need a swing of at least three to seven per cent for them to go blue.

Their majority was secured when Geoffrey Clifton - Brown held The Cotswolds to clinch the 326 seats needed to win with a handful of constituencies left to declare

In spite of these controversies, Abbott was re-elected in her seat of Hackney North and Stoke Newington, receiving 75 % of the constituency's votes with an increased majority of over 35,000.

Labour holds 27 out of 27 council seats in Creasy's constituency, while Creasy herself has a majority of 23,195 votes.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

In the election, the Conservatives won 297 of the 533 English constituencies, a majority of 61, and in England and Wales, they won 305 out of 573 seats, a majority of 37.

Roderick Campbell doubled the SNP vote and leapt from third to first place in this traditionally Liberal Democrat constituency to take the seat with a majority of 2,592 over Iain Smith in 2011.

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

Outcome (Based on polling tracker, assuming national swing reproduced in every constituency) Conservatives: 283 seats Labour: 283 seats Liberal Democrat: 53 seats Other: 31 seats Conservatives and Labour short of an overall majority by 43.

Incidentally, it has not gone unnoticed around Westminster that apart from a few infamous Labour examples, such as Labour's Ann Keen in Brentford and Isleworth, the vast majority of MPs in Outer London and the constituencies in the South East - who will lose out as a result of making those with seats «within travelling distance» of Westminster ineligible for the daily allowance - are Conservatives.

Sunderland Central takes in the majority of the former Sunderland North seat, save for Castle and Redhill wards which move to Washington and Sunderland West, and the most Easterly part of the old Sunderland South constituency, the rest of which joins the new Houghton and Sunderland South.

Outcome (Based on polling tracker, assuming national swing reproduced in every constituency) Conservatives: 319 seats Labour: 247 seats Liberal Democrat: 54 seats Other: 30 seats Conservatives short of an overall majority by seven

The constituency has undergone several boundary changes since its creation in 1918 but has remained a safe Labour seat since the Second World War, with the exception of a by - election in 1969 when Wallace Lawler won the seat for the Liberal Party and immediately surrounding period when its majority was marginal.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

Lord Ashcroft has become a powerful figure at Conservative HQ, where he is credited with devising the party's marginal seat strategy, pouring resources into constituencies where Labour MPs are defending small majority.

Rules state the Lewisham East MP will be forced to give up the seat before taking up the new job - prompting a summer by - election in a constituency where Labour enjoys a 21,000 majority.

The now powerful party figure is credited with devising its marginal seat strategy, pouring resources into constituencies where Labour MPs are defending small majorities.

[8] Hewitt's constituency of Leicester West is a safe Labour seat, with a majority of 9,070 votes in the 2005 General Election.

«The Liberal Democrats are likely to lose out more than the other main parties because their seats are yellow islands in a sea of red or blue; changing the boundaries is more likely to bring in hostile territories, their majorities tend to be smaller than Labour or Conservative MPs and their Lib Dems trade a lot on incumbency and constituency service.

There are seats with 5,000 + Labour majorities that we are likely to win at the general election, but a constituency like Norwich North that has such a high proportion of council estates is not automatically in that category.

However, it will be won or lost in the 117 marginal seats we need to win in order to gain an overall majority; and it will be won or lost on the decisions of swing voters in those constituencies.

If so, Labour would need — with the current constituency boundaries — to win around 90 additional seats in England and Wales to achieve an outright majority.

Mr Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

While in many ways it may be satisfying for campaigners to achieve gigantic majorities in their home areas, once a party has achieved first place in a constituency under FPTP those extra votes do nothing to help secure more seats in the House of Commons.

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.

The Conservatives have won 331 seats, securing a parliamentary majority of 12 after all 650 constituencies declared.

George Galloway of the Respect Party won the seat in the Bradford West by - election, 2012 with 55.9 % of the votes cast; his 30.9 % majority was at the time the largest majority in the history of the modern constituency, but he lost the seat in 2015 to the new Labour candidate Naz Shah by a substantial (28.3 %) margin.

Here is the lead by constituency on the local votes from the 10 most marginal Conservative held seats in 2015 and Reading East / West (seats with ward boundary changes, no local elections in 2015 or either Con or Lab not running in more than one ward have been omitted), the actual majority is in brackets:

For the election to produce a majority government, the biggest party theoretically must win at least 326 seats of the 650 regional constituencies.

In the 2011 district council elections his constituency lost a single Conservative seat to the Liberal Democrats resulting in a majority of 30 seats.

Well Hutton is not in the Redcar constituency it is Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland which is number 21 on the Tories target seat list (Labour majority 4.9 %).

Kendall, a former Labour leadership candidate who is well regarded by the party's right wing, has a majority of just over 7,000 in her Leicester West constituency, but local Tories say they are hopeful of taking the seat.

Polltroll — they're in a rather awkward position at the nomen between Scottish Labour surging up back to where they were in 2011, the Conservatives certainly back in play in the vast majority of seats they took in 1979, and the Lib Dems ahead in some key heartland constituencies.

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.

All over, bar the shouting: Shawn Graham's Liberal party will form a majority government in New Brunswick after taking 29 out of 55 constituencies and leaving the Tories with 26 seats.