Electoral district in a legislative body seen as secure for a political party or incumbent
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A safe seat is an electoral district (constituency) in a legislative body (e.g. congress, parliament, city council) which is regarded as fully secure, for either a certain political party, or the incumbent representative personally or a combination of both. With such seats, there is very little chance of a seat changing hands because of the political leanings of the electorate in the constituency concerned or the popularity of the incumbent member. The opposite (i.e. more competitive) type of seat is a marginal seat. The phrase "tantamount to election" is often used to describe winning the dominant party's nomination for a safe seat.
A safeseat is an electoral district (constituency) in a legislative body (e.g. congress, parliament, city council) which is regarded as fully secure...
victories. A safeseat is one that is very unlikely to be won by a rival politician due to the makeup of its constituency. Conversely, a swing seat is one that...
they may be known as target ridings. The opposite is a safeseat. The term ultra-marginal seat refers to a constituency with a majority of single or double...
legislator can also be described as a "seat", as, for example, in the phrases "safeseat" and "marginal seat". After election, the members may be protected...
jurisdictions that require party registration) belong to a single party (a "safeseat"), there is likely to be less fear of opposing parties gaining sufficient...
Wales, safe standing in practice originated in continental Europe, primarily Germany. This occurred because although UEFA and FIFA required all-seater stadiums...
the House of Commons at the 2005 general election for the Conservative safeseat of Mid Bedfordshire. As a backbencher, Dorries introduced several unsuccessful...
party's safeseats". New Statesman. Retrieved 8 June 2017. Little, Mandy (28 April 2017). "Ellie Reeves to fight for Lewisham West and Penge seat for Labour"...
for the Pontefract and Castleford constituency. Dromey again sought a safeseat in 2007, when there were plans for a general election to be called. Peter...
protest voters, especially in constituencies where the party holding a safeseat is unlikely to lose it. Starting in 1963, David Sutch, head of the rock...
seat-byelections-on-saturday/news-story/8144929170f800e537beb0fcfd86fff1 Messenger, Andrew (2024-03-16). "Queensland's Labor government may lose safe...
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...
stood as the Labour Party parliamentary candidate in the Conservative safeseat of Bromley and Chislehurst at the 2005 general election, finishing second...
Called 'Gem of AP'". 6 April 2019. "There is no point in searching for a safeseat: Nara Lokesh". The Times of India. 8 April 2019. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved...
Tory women: Farcical scenes after 'invalid' vote to select candidate for safeseat". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. "Election...