Sentences with phrase «won by the labour»

In seats won by Labour the average turnout was only 61 %.

The Labour - led alliance would have held Workington - won by Labour at every general election for nearly a century - by five votes.

For instance, Labour's overall share of the vote increased in 2015, relative to the 2010 General Election, by 1.5 %, but the extent of the party's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted votes.

The number of seats won by Labour fell from 132 in 2009 (14.9 % of the total number of City / Council seats at that election) to 51 in 2014 (5.4 % of the seats).

Jarvis is the overwhelming favourite to win the contest as all of the 14 South Yorkshire constituencies which will take part in the election were won by Labour at the last general election.

Hackney South and Shoreditch has been won by Labour at every election since its creation as a seat in 1974.

It won't win by a Labour equivalent of warm beer and old maids bicycling.»

The contest was won by Labour's Phil Woolas - re-appointed a frontbencher by Ed Miliband just a few weeks ago - who beat his nearest rival, a Liberal Democrat, by 103 votes.

The biggest majority in Bradford was won by Labour's Imran Hussain in the Toller ward, who lost to Galloway in the Bradford West byelection.

But it can only be won by Labour if we put the choice between us and the Tories up in lights.»

Only one seat in Coventry, Earlsdon ward, changed hands and was won by Labour from the Conservatives.

Not exact matches

The rebels won the British parliamentary vote by 307 to 294 votes, a majority of 13, after they received support from the Labour Party, a generally pro-European group accused by Cameron of «rank opportunism».

In The Wages of Wins, a book co-authored by three American economics professors, its writers debunk sports myths, including the notion that spectators desert leagues after labour disputes.

A poll of polls says Labour will win the most seats at the election, but the analysis by Sky claims it won't be enough to gain a majority.

I will place on my paten, O God, the harvest to be won by this renewal of labour.

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

Arsenal followed up their late win over Crystal Palace last weekend by labouring to a goalless draw in Istanbul in their Champions League qualifier first leg and now face a tough trip to Goodison Park on Saturday evening.

That solitary win, a laboured 1 - 0 FA Cup victory against League Two side Plymouth, has been surrounded by draws and defeats, with the run reaching a nadir on Saturday as Jürgen Klopp's side went down to a shock 3 - 2 defeat to relegation - threatened Swansea...

If it were up to me it would all go away, because it makes the AV vote harder to win by pissing off the Labour party.»

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.

Labour are out the picture and the Tories have been given «zero chance» of winning the seat back by political commentator Iain Dale.

«Our children deserve real jobs with real pay and Labour win any election by pledging to be a lighter shade of blue.»

Robert Courts won the Witney by - election by 5,702 votes as the Liberal Democrats surged past Labour into second.

With Labour backing the Lib Dems, the Tories could only hope to win the close vote by buying the support of the nationalist and Northern Ireland parties.

Does anyone think we would be reforming electoral system an outcome desired by no - one, if New labour had won.

Even on the day of Labour's mayoral announcement, most commentators assumed that Labour's Tessa Jowell would scoop the nomination, yet Khan ended up winning by a landslide.

The home secretary won the vote by 305 to 239, despite opposition from Labour and some Liberal Democrat and Tory MPs.

Several of the party's outer London targets failed to go Labour's way, while some of those that did were only won by tiny margins.

He attempts to get a US congressman to table a «favourable» motion (about independence) to «snooker» the Foreign Office, tries but fails to persuade the former (Labour) first minister Henry McLeish to back independence (he «is clearly torn between loyalty to party and country»), and tries but fails to win the Scottish Sun's backing (on September 7th Murdoch is still prevaricating; by September 16th he has opted for «benign neutrality»).

This was the part of the country where, in 2010, the words «points - based - system» went down so badly on the doorstep that Labour failed to win seats like Colne Valley, now held by the Conservative incumbent Jason McCartney.

Corbyn's performance was applauded by lobby journalists, with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg calling it «his most effective for ages» and many others calling it a rare win for the Labour leader.

The comments, which came as an aside during a case won by the government, triggered outrage among eurosceptics on the Tory backbenches, who said the UK had been tricked into believing it had an opt - out from the convention when Labour signed up during the Lisbon negotiations.

The near certainty of a predicted Labour victory above a certain threshold is largely driven by five Labour candidates who spent over # 28,000, all of whom were victorious (by contrast 11 Conservative candidates spent more than # 28,000 but only 5 of those won).

Labour have held Wrexham, which the Tories were forecast by the win in the exit poll.

Labour did well in London, winning Hammersmith and Fulham, David Cameron's favourite council, and overturning a Conservative hold on Croydon despite a strong track record by the party in the area.

The seat she stood in wouldn't be represented by a woman until I won it for Labour, 92 years later.

Ashdown, who won 46 seats for the Lib Dems in 1997, claimed politics is being «disfigured» by Labour and Conservatives vacating the centre ground.

Many have blamed Jeremy Corbyn for Labour's low poll ratings and one Labour peer recently suggested that his party would would win the next election «by a mile» with Balls as leader.

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

Camp followers of the Milibrothers whisper that Ed and David share a common plan to punish Ed Balls, whichever sibling wins the Labour leadership, by appointing Yvette Cooper as shadow chancellor.

On this path, Scottish Labour might even become an outrider for an SDP - style split at UK level, initiated by the likes of Jim Murphy, John McTernan and David Miliband, that some are forecasting if Corbyn wins.

Our analysis of voting patterns in the June 2017 General Election shows that Labour has a strong chance of winning across the city region, leading by over 27 per cent over the Conservatives.

As the night wore on it became increasingly clear Labour were not winning the seats it needed to capture to form the largest party, and by the morning the impossible had happened: David Cameron had pulled the irons of an overall majority from the election fire.

Labour's candidate for the Oldham West and Royton seat won the by - election — and party leader Jeremy Corbyn is hailing it as a victory.

This reminds me just before the last general election a Labour spy was in a private meeting held by a Tory MP talking about the party having to put up taxes if the Tories won the election which went against the party line.

John Biggs won the tower hamlets labour mayoral selection, well just about by 8 votes after the second preference votes were redistributed.

I watched us beating the Tories by 3 or 4 points on local and European election nights, and poured scorn on the psephologists who said the gains weren't really enough for Labour to hope to win.

Should the former win the day for him, it would be surprising if some Labour activists didn't begin to question the vastly disproportionate power wielded by MPs under the present arrangements.

Blair's warning that Labour can only win by occupying the centre is, therefore, a case of right message, wrong messenger.

Away from the local elections, here's Liam Young boasting that Corbyn's Labour has won every parliamentary by - election.