A safe seat is an electoral district which is regarded as fully secure, for either a certain political party, or the incumbent representative personally...

they may be known as target ridings. The opposite is a safe seat. The term ultra-marginal seat refers to a constituency with a majority of single digits...

relatively small number of swing seats usually determines the outcome of the entire election. Parties aspire to hold as many safe seats as possible, and high-level...

as well as socialist activist Lee Siew Choh. Since 1991, the party's safe seat has been the constituency of Hougang, which was represented by Low Thia...

legislator can also be described as a "seat", as, for example, in the phrases "safe seat" and "marginal seat". After election, the members may be protected...

seats can be considered as safe. It has been claimed that members involved in the 2009 expenses scandal were significantly more likely to hold a safe...

these as "marginal seats" due to the extent of Labor's landslide in 2021, as normally a margin of over 15% would be considered a safe seat.) Elections are...

Garrett was preselected as the Australian Labor Party's candidate for the safe seat of Kingsford Smith at the federal election that year due to the intervention...

independents and lead to more, not less, stability.[original research?] A safe seat is one in which a plurality or majority of voters, depending on the electoral...

by-election was held following the death of John Forrest. The seat was traditionally a safe seat for the Nationalist Party against the Labor Party, but the...

2016 to 2019. Prior to the 2024 general election, it was considered a safe seat for the Conservative Party. Housing is, in the Wokingham district part...

jurisdictions that require party registration) belong to a single party (a "safe seat"), there is likely to be less fear of opposing parties gaining sufficient...

since their voting patterns cannot be predicted as easily as voters in 'safe seat' voters. While the swing voter is ostensibly the target of most political...

that gets them into their safe seat, and they need backroom political skills in the state legislature to keep their safe seats every 10 years." Gelman also...

Albert, fellow Liberal William MacDiarmid, who was re-elected in the safe seat of Glengarry, resigned so that a by-election could be held, which was...

for the Pontefract and Castleford constituency. Dromey again sought a safe seat in 2007, when there were plans for a general election to be called. Peter...

child safety seat, sometimes called an infant safety seat, child restraint system, child seat, baby seat, car seat, or a booster seat, is a seat designed...

traditionally been a marginal seat. However, in 2022 the trend was broken, with Braddon becoming a "fairly safe" seat for the first time in twelve years...

the House of Commons at the 2005 general election for the Conservative safe seat of Mid Bedfordshire. As a backbencher, Dorries introduced several unsuccessful...

peninsula, Flinders is still counted as a rural seat. As of 2022, Flinders is the Liberal Party's only safe seat in Melbourne. Since 1984, federal electoral...

eliminated in 1989. The riding was located in north-end Winnipeg, and was a safe seat for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and New Democratic Party for...

votes cast; the seat is now regarded as a safe seat for the Liberal Democrats. The constituency was created in 1997, when the number of seats covering the...

protest voters, especially in constituencies where the party holding a safe seat is unlikely to lose it. Starting in 1963, David Sutch, head of the rock...

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eastern India. It was one of the safe seat of Indian National Congress as Khagapati Pradhani represented this seat for a record 9 times from 1967 to...

geographic size reflecting the growth of its main settlement, Eastbourne. The seat has been represented since 2024 by Josh Babarinde, a Liberal Democrat. The...

the town of Busselton and is named for the Vasse River. It has been a safe seat for the Liberal Party at all times since its creation, including as its...

Preston, Reservoir and Thornbury. It was a fairly safe seat for the Australian Labor Party. The seat was abolished in 1969, and largely replaced by the...

Woodward decided not to contest his Witney seat as a Labour candidate and instead found a safe Labour seat in St Helens South. Chris Mullin wrote with...

and by Liberal Marco Mendicino since the 2015 federal election. It is a safe seat for the Liberal Party, having returned only Liberal MPs at every election...