Sentences with phrase «urban seats»

In what has been widely heralded as a successful election (despite not winning it) for Corbyn's Labour, 84 % of the gains made were in urban seats, while 40 % of the losses were rural.

On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban seat since its previous two were lost in the May general election, Rachel at least got a partial reading of the zeitgeist of...

In poorer northern England urban seats such as Redcar and Hull, disaffected working - class voters deserted the Lib Dems as the local opposition to Labour, opting instead for Ukip.

If so, he would have to be prepared to spend as much time out of London as in it, and it would rely on him not only doing a good job in the capital, but also being able to explain how that job can be replicated in rural and urban seats around the country.

In 2005 Mark Williams won the Ceredigion seat (formerly held by Geraint Howells); and Jenny Willott won the Cardiff Central seat, which was the first Liberal urban seat victory in Wales since 1935 and the first female Liberal MP in Wales since 1951.

Carlisle is a traditionally Labour Northern, industrial and largely urban seat.

In 15 years, in fact: they were fighting seats won in their 2008 high - water mark, in broadly urban seats, after two years of being in government at a time of tough spending cuts.

The Independent carried an almost identical story - «Ministers may be told to focus on minorities in key seats» and repeated the figure of thirty urban seats where the BME vote might be crucial to determining whether the Conservative Party wins its overall target of gaining fifty extra seats.

Standard geographical maps tend to emphasise sparsely populated rural areas over urban seats, although all constituencies are of the same political value.

On the plus side for the Conservatives, the boundary commission had attempted to reduce the electoral representation of some urban seats now no longer heavily populated.

This was largely due to the rules surrounding redrawing constituencies, which then allowed rural seats (where the Conservatives tended to win) to have somewhat smaller electorates than urban seats.

If you look back through history, a plausible case can be made that empires unravel not for political reasons, but because of disruptions in the food supply chains that feed their urban seats of power.