Sentences with phrase «vacancy in a safe seat»
An MP for over thirty years, his elevation to the peerage was intended to create a vacancy in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, who had been defeated in a shock result in the 1964 general election in his Smethwick constituency.
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After holding Washington's 7th District seat for 14 terms, McDermott is retiring at the end of this Congress, leaving a vacancy in a safe Democratic seat.