Sentences with phrase «seats for labour»

On a uniform swing it would produce 31 seats for Labour (down 10), 14 seats for the SNP (up 8), 10 for the Lib Dems (down 1) and 4 for the Conservatives.»

The final result was 47 seats for the Labour Party and 1 seat for the Green Party of England and Wales.

This does not necessarily mean they would be the most winnable seats for the Labour in practice, or that they are the seats the Labour party will actually be targetting at the next general election.

Two questions in particular define the choice on whether to say yes, no or stay at home: which system will deliver the most seats for Labour at the next election?

Despite initial optimism and the professional campaign run by Neil Kinnock, the election brought only twenty additional seats for Labour from the 1983 Conservative landslide.

John Curtice's projection in the Scotsman has these shares of the vote translating into 57 seats for Labour, 48 for the SNP, 13 for the Conservatives, 6 for the Greens and 5 for the Liberal Democrats.

290 seats for Labour would almost certainly mean the Tories were the largest party with the Lib Dems in the high 20s to low 30s.

Roger Scully's commentary is over on the Elections in Wales blog here and has an Assembly seat projection of 29 seats for Labour, 12 for the Tories, 10 Plaid, 8 UKIP and one for the Lib Dems.

«I'm working flat out to win seats for Labour and everyone in the party should be really ambitious for these elections.

The campaign group Saving Labour has claimed that the polling translates into a loss of 44 seats for Labour, while angry Labour MPs have seized on the figures as further evidence that Corbyn can not lead the party to electoral success.

It claimed that the polling translated into a loss of 44 seats for Labour.

As a result of these adjustments the forecast number of seats for both Labour and the Lib Dems has gone up a little and the Tories have correspondingly come down.

Clive Lewis won this seat for Labour two years ago with a 15.8 % majority over the Tories, with the Greens in third and the Lib Dems plummeting from first to fourth.

These are challenging times but, despite recent setbacks, I am confident Glenrothes remains a winnable seat for Labour.

Gordon - Walker regained the seat for Labour at 1966 general election.

Labour saw a 6 % drop in its vote nationally in 2005, [19] and despite a 4.2 % swing to the Conservatives in Dewsbury, Malik comfortably retained the seat for Labour with a majority of 4,615 ahead of Baroness Warsi.

He first won his seat for Labour in the 1997 general election, having contested the predecessor Littleborough and Saddleworth seat at a by - election in 1995, [7] which was marked by Labour's particularly vicious and personal campaign, attacking the Liberal Democrat candidate, Chris Davies, as «high on tax and soft on drugs».

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.

Martin had held the seat for Labour and then as Speaker for 30 years and won 71.4 % of the vote in 1997.

There is no by - election immediately in the offing, but the man who retained the seat for Labour at the general election, Denis MacShane, has been without his party's whip since last October after the parliamentary Standards watchdog referred him to the police over his use of parliamentary alowances.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

Labour holds two - thirds of Scotland's seats in the British Parliament, and their removal would make it harder for Labour to become the governing party again.

We had brought the baby car seat up into the L&D room — why we thought we had to have it right there I don't know, along with our playlists for labour, nursing pillow, cute outfit and multiple cameras — and we carried it out empty and put it in the trunk, where it sat for 5 months, despite repeated trips.

The 1993 Labour Party Conference introduced the rule for «women - only shortlists» in 50 % of all target seats.

In 2005, 35 per cent of the vote got Labour 55 per cent of the seats, while only three per cent less in the vote for the Tories got them just 30 per cent.

«Clearly I would have preferred to have got more votes than we did, but this was always going to be a tough fight for Labour - it's a seat that we've never won,» he said.

Two Labour MPs who will definitely not be around for much longer are Jamie Reed and Tristram Hunt, both of whom are quitting their seats to take jobs outside parliament.

The only way a split could be made to work would be for Corbyn's Labour and the progressive alliance to form a «non-compete» pact, allowing each a clean shot against the Conservatives in pre-determined seats.

First out of the blocks to put themselves forward for the seat was Sakina Sheikh, a Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Lewisham local who was only elected as a Labour councillor just a few days ago.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

The closed shop was as important for that as it was for giving the Tory forty - five per cent of the industrial working - class a moderating influence in the selection of Labour candidates for the safe Labour seats in which they lived.

A New Statesman interview with Harriet Harman yesterday revealed the interim labour leader was angling for a seat on the shadow Cabinet once a new head was chosen.

What's more, the next election will also be fought on new boundaries and 50 fewer seats — unless Theresa May takes advantage of the turmoil in the Labour party and goes for a snap election in the autumn, as many are now expecting.

«Under First Past the Post this would likely be disastrous for them, splitting the Labour vote and allowing the Conservatives or UKIP, or whoever, to gain more seats from them.

The Labour party faces a challenging three - way fight for a marginal northern seat after the shock...

It essentially became pointless with the introduction of FPTP for all seats, before that many seats used Block Voting and there were alliance slates in places (in some, Liberals, Nat Libs and Cons all put up one candidate each to LAbour's two; evidence was a lot of Lib voters supported Labour with second vote, but Tory and Nat Lib voters split all over the place).

He is married to Scottish Minister for Public Health, Shona Robison MSP with a young daughter, Morag Louise, and lives in the constituency where he was elected as MP for Dundee East on 5 May 2005, taking the seat from Labour.

It was a complex race in a marginal seat, which ended with a surprising Labour hold for Debbie Abrahams.

The move will make it harder for Labour to take key seats from the Conservatives in the 2015 general election campaign.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

The Tories will implement boundary reform as one of their first actions, making it at least 20 seats harder for Labour to beat them.

But unlike May, Heath was booted out of Number 10 to make way for Harold Wilson, whose Labour party won a mere four seats more than the Tories.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.

To get an idea of how disastrous this election has been for the Conservatives, look at what has happened in the Labour held seats that the Tories were targeting yesterday but didn't win:

Ukip are replacing the Conservatives as the natural challengers to Labour in marginal seats across the country according to new polling conducted for the party.

His defeat would not just have been a personal loss for him and a numerical blow to Labour: for the last 10 years, Wilson has represented Sedgefield, the seat previously held by none other than Tony Blair.

A new poll of his Sheffield constituency found the Lib Dem leader is set to lose his seat to Labour, in what would be a historic moment for the party.

I think it's time for new labour to walk away and form it's own party, a party they can set up and make it's own, they can have parachutes to dump people all over the place offering people seats for money shit they tried that.