Sentences with phrase «seats changed hands»

But while in one sense not very much happened in the local election - not very many councils and seats changed hands and neither of the main parties have (with a couple of hours to go) made dramatic strides - something important did happen.

Five seats changed hands.

No seats changed hands.

111 seats changed hands compared to the result in 2010 plus three by - election gains reverted to the party that won the seat at the last general election in 2010.

No other seats changed hands in the Guildford area in the 2017 Surrey County Council elections.

During World War II, despite the wartime truce between Labour, the Liberals and Conservatives (who were in coalition together), several seats changed hands when minor parties or independents made gains, including the first - ever SNP victory.

[4] In total, a mere 29 parliamentary seats changed hands at the 2001 Election.

The reason I analyse the swing is that it is this that determines whether or not a seat changes hand.

If all 10 of these seats change hands, the Democrats gain 9, bringing their caucus to... 60.

In a brilliant 1982 article in the British Journal of Political Science Curtice and Steed showed how by the mid-1970s, instead of a net 18 seats changing hands for every one per cent swing, as the Cube Law would suggest, only 12 seats, or even fewer, switched.

Of the past 10 gubernatorial elections in Maine, five have resulted in the seat changing hands.

The results saw only one seat change hands with the Liberal Democrats gaining a seat in Abbey ward from Labour.

A Liberal Democrat resurgence could be more dangerous to the Conservatives elsewhere, but the potential for many seats changing hands is small.

While Mr. Hughes secured his victory, the lead in the even closer race between two Republicans for an open Town Trustee seat changed hands after the absentee ballots were tallied up.

Some accused city leaders of using the moratorium as temporary «political cover» ahead of an election that could see potentially four council seats change hands, rather than put their names behind an outright ban.

Not exact matches

No ruthlessness, no tactical approach, no change if things when things aren't going our way, only folding hands on his seat and attacking the officials.

You need to use only one hand to change the seat position of the stroller.

should i change the position right away??? let her cry in it that she coughs n chokes??? N we bought a second hand seat which had been used for less than 3 months.

With the help one hand push from a strap system you can change the seat position according to your child's comfort.

Maneuvering is made easy here as well — you will easily be able to change up the seating and the comfort of your child with a few movements of your hands.

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Imagine preparing for a newborn and doing so with several car seats, changing tables, carriers and years» worth of clothes, toys and «large entertainers» on your hands — along with the abundant responsibility you now place on them to be proportionately appreciative.

I was apparently the only person on earth who could read to my son, sing to him, change his diaper, give him a bath, make his dinner, hand him his water, and strap him into his car seat.

It includes a tip for changing your hand position to make it easier to reach while making the seat.

Another suggested just 30 or 40 seats in the Commons would actually change hands, thanks to MPs doing a better job at incumbency this time round.

All told, eight of the state's nine Republican seats in the House are considered possible pickups by the Democrats, with Peter King, the well - known Long Island congressman, holding the sole seat that they apparently feel is unlikely to change hands.

We begin our tour in London, in three seats that illustrate the complicated dynamics of this election: Bermondsey & Old Southwark, which the Liberal Democrats are aiming to take back from Labour; Twickenham, now a Tory seat which is under threat from the Lib Dems; and Brentford & Isleworth which, if Labour lose it to the Conservatives, will have changed hands three elections running.

A relatively well - off and low unemployment seat, Dumfriesshire (and its predecessor constituency, Dumfries) has not changed hands since the first Scottish parliament election in 1999.

Many, though, will remain in the same old safe seats which have not changed hands for years.

Just one seat changed party hands in the past decade.

The seat has changed hands three times since that year.

I realize that the GA or VA seats are unlikely to change party hands but the incumbant members have made various gaffes and I do not have a handle on local sentiment or primary challengers.

Just think about all the posts that could change hands at the town level if, say, one of the North Fork town supervisors pursued Mr. Romaine's seat.

Few House seats will change hands.

The district has changed hands between the GOP and the Democrats over the last several election cycles, and its current representative, Democrat Dan Maffei, lost his seat once before to a conservative Republican who accused him to being too liberal for this centrist region.

Since Rep. James Walsh, R - Onondaga, retired from a 20 - year career representing the Syracuse area in 2008, the local House seat has changed hands three times.

Marginal seat polls matter because they are the seats that might change hands, and therefore the seats that will decide the election.

What that means is if these figures were repeated at the general election none of these Con / Lab seats would change hands at all — the Tories would hold theirs, Labour would hold theirs.

Only one seat changed party hands in 2016.

In state houses, 42 seats, or 16.5 % of termed - out seats, changed party hands.

Lerner says Common Cause has analyzed the details of the bill authorizing the constitutional change, and has found a number of technical loopholes that she says keeps the power to manipulate the lines well within the hands of the legislature, including the ability to continue to add additional Senate seats for political purposes.

And I don't think anyone is saying all ten of these seats are going to change hands.

In state senates, 19 seats, or 15.7 % of termed - out seats, changed party hands.

We don't yet know for sure the impact of the reduction in the number of constituencies — the Conservatives should be the net beneficiaries, but the parties will fight over every boundary line; until the new map is drawn we won't know how many seats will change hands for a given swing.

Firstly, it was a week that laid bare the potentially seismic shifts taking place electorally in Scotland, with Lord Ashcroft's seat - by - seat polling of 16 Scottish constituencies showing the scale of change that may be at hand.

In the previous ten gubernatorial elections in Minnesota, six have resulted in the seat changing party hands.

In fact, so - called safe seats can change hands when local voters decide they want change.

Hobson, you can probably count the number of times a safe seat has changed hands in the past fifty years on the fingers of one hand.

Mr. Nyce did residents a favor by not seeking a third term and guaranteeing that at least one seat will change hands this year.

The full Coalition Agreement last May said: «We will fund 200 all - postal primaries over this Parliament, targetted at seats which have not changed hands for many years.»