Sentence examples for a safe constituency from inspiring English sources

Adam Bandt, the party's new deputy leader, won his seat last year in what used to be a safe constituency for Labor, in Melbourne.

These of course are all theoretical examples - if the polls are right, the election will look like a first-past-the-post contest in a safe constituency seat.

Against the defeat at Hottentots-Holland, thought to be a safe constituency for the Government, should be set a victory in the Zululand constituency of Natal where, in spite of the discontent over the Government's Indian policy, the United party candidate defeated a strong Nationalist candidate.

Hammond was elected to Parliament in 1997 as MP for Runnymede and Weybridge, a safe Conservative constituency to the southwest of London.

In any "normal" election, Boston and Skegness would be seen as a safe Tory constituency.

It would end the "jobs for life" culture in safe constituency seats (campaigners point to MPs in safe seats who were embroiled in the expenses scandal that hit the previous parliament).

In 1985, following boundary changes, Atkinson was deselected as the future candidate for his safe constituency of Tottenham, north London, and so was unable to fight the 1987 general election, even though his overall majority had regularly been more than 9,000 since he was first elected in 1964.

I moved house four months ago, to what turned out to be a safe-seat constituency.

Politicians control the drawing of district boundaries and frequently use that power to map out safe constituencies for themselves.

It may be a safe seat, a constituency where the Conservative nomination alone practically secures a job for life, but the turnover of its elected representatives is strikingly at odds with the air of stability that pervades its southern wards.

Speaking in the Clydeback and Milngavie constituency, a safe Labour seat now under threat from the SNP, Miliband added: "It's a combination of bluster and bluff; I gather he has got a book to sell".