Sentences with phrase «seats over all other parties»
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Because Labour could, potentially, win if the previously Labour but now non-voters can be persuaded to start turning out and voting Labour again, but only if the non-voting support base is fairly large, and without that sort of analysis over larger areas it's hard to judge — it's definitely partially true in my ward, Labour had disappeared electorally years ago, but won the seat in 2012, despite most other parties getting similar votes to normal (and our support mostly going to an Independent we were tacitly backing).
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The German Green Party has never won over 11 percent of the national vote, yet for three decades has consistently won seats and promoted women's leadership by having a 50 - 50 rule for female / male candidates, prodding other major parties to nominate more women.
In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the «erosion of civil liberties» by the then Labour government, and was re-elected on a civil liberties platform (although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties).
By comparison, when Margaret Thatcher formed her first government in 1979 her party gained 62 seats from other parties, but she was able to choose widely, from over 250 re-elected MPs from the previous parliament, the 100 or so cabinet and junior ministers.»
But the seat has repeatedly flipped from one party to the other over more than a decade.
This is the first of six constituencies in the party's North East London City Seats Initiative to select; the others, which will be choosing their candidates over the coming weeks, are: Hackney South and Shoreditch, Islington North, Islington South and Finsbury, Leyton and Wanstead, and Walthamstow.
Interviewed Sunday in Woodstock, where the six Democrats seeking their party's nomination in the 19th District had gathered for a debate, Neal noted she has advantage over others seeking the House seat because she already has gotten the better of Donald Trump.