Sentences with phrase «seats behind labour»

In 1974, the Conservatives came out of the election 4 seats behind Labour (though with a higher share of the vote).

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And the latest poll won't have helped: an Ipsos Mori poll for STV, the latest to come out, puts Labour behind by 28 points, suggesting the SNP could take 55 of Scotland's 59 seats.

When Lord Ashcroft polled the seat in November last year, he found the Lib Dem leader three points ahead behind Labour.

The Survation poll commissioned by Unite union found the Lib Dems are on just 23 % behind Labour on 33 % in the seat, when voters were asked about their constituency vote.

At the start of April, Lord Ashcroft gave the Liberal Democrats a serious scare with his latest poll of the seat, which put Clegg on 34 % — two points behind Labour.

I recall the same paper and company produced a similarly misleading poll in 1997, finding the Conservatives just 5 % behind Labour 10 days before John Major led the Tories to their worst defeat since Waterloo, Tony Blair securing a 179 - seat majority.

The party had polled consistently in the first four elections to the National Assembly, returning six representatives in the first three elections and five in the 2011 Election, thereby establishing itself as the fourth party in Wales behind Labour, the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru, but fell to just one seat in 2016.

The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.

That those viewers then swung in large numbers behind the Labour leader suggests the programme may have had an impact on the final result - particularly when just a few hundred votes in swing seats shifted June's outcome.

Gordon Lindhurst is an advocate who stood for the seat of Edinburgh South West (which includes Edinburgh Pentlands) in the Westminster election last year when he came third behind Labour's Ricky Henderson (succeeding Alistair Darling) and the SNP's Joanna Cherry who won almost as many votes as the Labour and Conservative candidates added together.

That said, Alison Dickie will probably take the seat, although that won't stop her challengers taking their place in the Parliament Chamber as Sarah Boyack, Ruth Davidson and Alison Johnstone are all also standing on the regional list (Ruth and Alison will definitely be returned as the lead list candidate for their parties, Sarah faces a less certain evening / early morning of May 6th as she is sitting behind Kezia Dugdale and Neil Findlay on the Labour list).

[48] The party also came second place by 633 votes in the Bromley and Chislehurst by - election, threatening the safe Conservative seat and pushing Labour into fourth place behind the UK Independence Party.

Joe Cullinane, the Labour candidate for the seat, is also sixth on the Labour regional list, behind more established names and current office holders.

[4] In the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that election.

He moved from second place behind Labour's Rhona Brankin who had held the seat since 1999 until she retired in 2011.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

The Lib Dem collapse in Wales reached the point where they finished behind the British National party (BNP) in a number of constituencies, but their five seats could leave them as prospective coalition partners for Labour.

And you can take it as read that Labour is falling well, well behind in the Tory - held target seats it will one day need to win to form a government.

They start from miles behind at the general election, but on this evidence they have a platform for pulling off a shock result if they really throw effort and resources into this seat, especially if Leave voters ditch Labour for the Tories.

The «left - behinds» tend to be concentrated in safe Labour seats — often struggling former mining and manufacturing towns in the North of England.

The seat is unchanged for the next election, meaning that Richard requires a swing of 7 % to oust the Secretary of State for Scotland (in the equivalent seat at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, the Conservatives were only 891 votes behind Labour).

Their strongest performance though came in a seat that was part of the normal sample of ultra marginals — Thurrock, where Ashcroft found them at 29 % and in second place behind Labour.

At the general election - with a very small local party membership and without target seat status and all its associated benefits - Kashif was less than 2,500 votes behind the victorious Labour MP.

In the 1983 general election the SDP received 25.4 % of the vote, just behind Labour with 27.6 %, but won only 23 seats in the Commons compared to Labour's 209 seats.

Following the negative reaction to his visit to British troops in Iraq during the 2007 Conservative Party Conference, [111] an unrehearsed conference speech made by David Cameron and an opinion poll showing Labour 6 % behind the Conservative Party in key marginal seats, Brown announced that there would be no election in the near future.

UKIP won 27.5 % of the vote and had 24 MEPs elected; Labour, on 25.4 % or 20 seats, narrowly beat the Tories into third place while the Lib Dems lost all but one of their seats and came sixth behind the Greens.

At the most recent general election in 2017, Labour won 7 seats in Scotland — improving on its performance two years previously — with 27.1 % of the vote, and was the third - largest party behind the SNP and the Conservatives.

On a uniform swing this would leave the Conservatives just short of a majority with 313 seats, but with Labour quite close behind on 299 and the Liberal Democrats reduced to just 12.

If the parties were neck and neck in support, Labour would be almost 50 seats behind the Tories, he added.

Indeed so: when he stood against Labour MP Bob Marshall - Andrews (now retired) in Medway (the old name for this slightly redrawn seat), he was 213 votes behind the successful Labour candidate, while UKIP trailed in fourth with 1,488 votes.

He was proud when he was chosen as his party's candidate for the safe Labour seat in the 1979 election in preference to two academic aspirants with, as he put it, more letters behind their names than the eight letters in his own.

Based on the 2010 result, Labour can claim it was a safe right - wing seat if they lose, even if they come behind UKIP.

The last time any government won a by - election was in 1983, and with Labour considerably behind in the nationwide polls and Corbyn's popularity low, a gain in either seat would be a remarkable victory for the Conservatives and further evidence that they are dominating the post-Brexit political landscape (though, as Matt Singh points out on NumberCruncherPolitics, it would be even more remarkable than this).

One backbencher said: «When Len's back in the driving seat, he will not want to see Labour wiped out; he will want to see a candidate they can get behind.»

Labour is lagging way behind in the opinion polls, suggesting it could lose dozens of seats.

Labour, on 25.4 %, has narrowly beaten the Tories into third place while the Lib Dems lost all but one of their seats and came sixth behind the Greens.

But even after the changes the other two main parties trail way behind Labour in this region, as the notional results put Labour on 27 seats.

Speaking alongside the new MP Liz McInnes, the Labour leader said this disillusionment had led long - time Labour voters to side with Ukip - who came second in the seat, just 600 votes behind Labour.