Sentences with phrase «seats someone were defending»

The Conservatives held the three seats it was defending with a reduced vote share.

In fact, in seats we are defending against Labour, only just over a quarter of Conservative Defectors now say they will vote UKIP.

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Tory Defectors in seats we are defending against the Lib Dems have doubts about the party's competence, clarity and values — whereas UKIP voters really are for «none of the above», disliking all three parties, and being interested only in immigration, Europe and defence — though as I found in my previous research, most of those who are attracted to UKIP are not motivated by policy issues at all.

The Liberal Democrats lost the only seat they were defending.

Labour lost one seat of their 2012 election total but held all of the other seats they were defending, albeit many with reduced majorities.

the demographics are more pro-labour than would be the case in some of those midlands seats they are defending.

There was a landslide shift towards the SNP, which took 56 of the 59 Scottish seats at Westminster, while Labour lost 40 of the 41 Westminster seats it was defending.

Their faith was misplaced — Lib Dem vote share fell only slightly less in seats they were defending, nowhere near enough to save most Lib Dems from a 15 percentage point national decline.

Rob Hayward: The Liberal Democrats lost 40 % of the council seats they were defending but did much better in places where they had an incumbent MP

Intriguingly, the distribution of the 2015 Labour share of the vote across the seats they are defending now is very similar to the distribution of their 2010 share of the vote in the Scottish seats that they were defending in 2015.

The Cumbrian semi-rural seat of Copeland was seized by the Conservatives — the first time the main opposition party has lost a seat it was defending in a byelection since 1982.

[49] None was elected, and the party suffered the loss of the two seats it was defending, one that it had gained from a former BNP member who had defected to the party and another from an ex-Tory.

The LDs lost 40 % of all the seats they were defending on May 5th and are now down to roughly 3,000 councillors across the UK.

Some of these Independent candidates are former representatives of existing political parties: for example, the ex-Labour MP Tony Clarke is standing in his old seat of Northampton South (which should helpfully split the Left wing vote in the seat being defended by Conservative MP Brian Binley), whilst John Stevens, who is challenging John Bercow in Buckingham, is an ultra-europhile former Tory MEP who set up the Pro-Euro Conservative Party before joining the Liberal Democrats.

As things stand, Conservatives are losing about one in three of the seats they're defending and the Lib Dems are losing roughly one in two.

It's now an extinction level set of results for the fascist party, which is set to lose all the seats they're defending.

One consequence of this pattern is that the Conservatives are doing worse where they started strongest and particularly in seats they are defending.

The Liberal Democrats, who were in coalition with the Conservatives at the time; lost ten of their eleven seats they were defending and won just 6.6 % of the vote share nationally and won just 4 council areas.

If they are indeed losing most heavily in the seats they are defending they are set to lose several more seats than national polls with uniform swing would predict.

But the latter made one gain and held the seats they were defending, making this a relative bright spot.

But NYSUT declined to issue endorsements in other Long Island Senate races, including the seats being defended by Republicans Kemp Hannon and Education Committee Chairman Carl Marcellino.

The Liberal Democrats lost four of the five seats it was defending, all of which were gained by Labour.

Prof Ralling's calculations are that this would lead to the Conservatives losing 1000 council seats (about a fifth of those they are defending), and the Liberal Democrats will lose 700 (well over a third of the 1850 seats they are defending).

We find that Conservative support is holding up better in its key marginal seats than the rest of the country, and also that the Liberal Democrats are recovering strongly, albeit from a low base, in the seats they are defending.

In Dudley, UKIP lost six of the seats it was defending, including the Sedgley ward of MEP Bill Etheridge.

UKIP have lost almost all of the seats they were defending.

But it is UKIP which has seen the biggest slump - failing to retain any of the seats they were defending in the Anglia region.

That fall in the LD vote gives them hope in seats they are defending... They need all the other seats to be at or below 8 %...