The town is part of the Havant constituency, which has for many years been a safe Conservative seat.

A safe seat is usually chosen ; while the Liberal and now defunct Progressive Conservative parties traditionally observed a convention of not running a candidate against another party's new leader in the by-election, the New Democrats and other smaller parties typically do not follow the same convention.

Three are also elected from Lancaster Gate, which is a safe Conservative ward, represented by leader of the Council Simon Milton.

Councillors unseated included the veteran Steve Mama ( Labour ), Kingston's longest serving Councillor ; the Conservative election campaign co-ordinator Nick Kilby from his previously safe Surbiton Hill ward ; and Paul Johnston, the former local Conservative Association chairman and trustee.

It is a safe Conservative seat because there is a solid core of Conservative voters in the suburban parts of the constituency and the opposition is somewhat divided between Labour and Lib Dem.

Bromley is known as a safe Conservative area, due to its prosperity but one of its wards Plaistow and Sundridge had a Communist Councillor in the 1940s and the previous Chislehurst seat had a Labour MP in 1966.

In the 2010 General Election, Greg Hands stood and was elected for the newly-formed safe Conservative Chelsea and Fulham ( UK Parliament constituency ).

Only 157 Conservatives were returned to the House of Commons, at least two-thirds of them followers of Chamberlain, who briefly chaired the Conservative MPs until Balfour won a safe seat in the City of London.

It is regarded as a safe seat for the Conservative Party, and Priti Patel holds a strong 15, 196 vote majority.

The Conservative majority of 11, 382 was still large enough to be regarded as a safe seat ; when the sitting MP John Peyton stood down at the 1983 general election to be made a life peer, however, Ashdown had gained momentum after his years of local campaigning.

In 1950 he left the army and at the general election in February 1950 he was elected for Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, a safe Conservative seat.

In the 1955 general election Kaufman had unsuccessfully contested the safe Conservative seat of Bromley, and in the 1959 general election, Gillingham.

The safe Conservative seat of Kinross and West Perthshire was vacant, and Douglas-Home was adopted as his party's candidate.

While the Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative movements openly advocate for the right to a safe and accessible abortion, the Orthodox movement is less unified on the issue.

It had previously been a Conservative safe seat, including as its MP, Anthony Eden a former British prime minister.

Her husband stood as Labour candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Tiverton in 1959, and came close to winning Plymouth Sutton in 1964, losing by just 410 votes ( David Owen would later hold for several years for Labour ).

The retirement of Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, MP for the safe Conservative seat of Dulwich, offered him a chance.

The Liberals called a general election in January 1910, and Law spent most of the preceding months campaigning up and down the country for other Conservative candidates and MPs, sure that his Dulwich seat was safe, and when the results came in he held an increased majority of 2, 418.

In 1911, with the Conservative Party unable to afford him being out of Parliament, Law was elected in a by-election for the safe Conservative seat of Bootle.

Chiarelli ran as a candidate of the Liberal Party of Ontario and was easily elected in Ottawa West, which had previously been regarded as a safe Progressive Conservative seat.

His selection for the very safe Labour seat of Rhondda in South Wales in 2000 surprised many people given Bryant's background – gay, a former Anglican vicar, and someone who had been a Conservative as a student.

At the 1987 general election Arbuthnot was chosen to contest the safe Conservative seat of Wanstead and Woodford as the sitting MP, Patrick Jenkin, was standing down.

Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.

There were long-running claims of corruption and administrative decay within Labour at local level ( the North-East of England was to become a cause célèbre ), and concerns that experienced and able Labour MPs could be deselected ( i. e., lose the Labour Party nomination ) by those wanting to put into a safe seat their friends, family or members of their own Labour faction.

In some areas, the Militant tendency were held to be systematically targeting weak local party branches in safe seat areas in order to have their own candidates selected, and thus become MPs.

At the 1934 federal election Holt unsuccessfully contested the safe Labor seat of Yarra for the UAP, running against former Prime Minister James Scullin.

In March 1935, he unsuccessfully contested the safe Victorian state Labor seat of Clifton Hill.

The seat was created as a safe Liberal seat, and Holt won it easily.

However, the situation in Western Australia and South Australia, where the party is more clearly differentiable from the Liberals, is quite different, with the Nationals narrowly missing out on winning a second seat in South Australia in 2006 and winning a safe Liberal seat in Western Australia in 2005.

He was soon elected as a National Liberal to the Reichstag for Bennigsen's old and supposedly safe Hamburg seat, but was embarrassed by being forced to a second ballot by a Social Democrat rival, and never actually took up his seat.

They next won a seat in 1967, when Winnie Ewing was the surprise winner of a by-election in the previously safe Labour seat of Hamilton.

In 1449 he was elected as MP for the Duke of Buckingham's safe seat of Great Bedwyn.

By extension, the term seat is often used in less formal contexts to refer to an electoral district itself, as for example in the phrases " safe seat " and " marginal seat ".

It was necessary that Douglas-Home resign his peerage to find a safe Parliamentary seat.

Public outrage over the proposed subdivision resulted in the responsible minister losing his safe seat in a by-election.

This was a sharp departure from usual practice, in which the incumbent in a safe seat resigns to allow a newly elected party leader a chance to get into Parliament.

Two months later, Mulroney entered Parliament as the MP for Central Nova in Nova Scotia, winning a by-election in what was then considered a safe Tory seat after Elmer MacKay stood down in his favour.

Formigoni also sparked controversies when agreeing to put in his majority-premium list, granting her safe election, Nicole Minetti, former showgirl and actual dental hygienist of Silvio Berlusconi, who asked for a political seat for her.

A “ Letter from an Officer of Marines at New South Wales, 16 November 1788 ”, published in the London newspaper, The World, 15 May 1789, reported the glowing description of the island and its prospects by Philip Gidley King, but also drew attention to the fatal defect of the lack of a safe port: “ The said Island lies near Port Jackson, and is nearly as large as the Isle of Wight.

* March 27 – British writer Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London shortly after returning from a visit to Paris, where he drank local water to prove it was safe.

Dream scenes may be indistinguishable from those set in the dreamer's real world, a narrative device that undermines the dreamer's and the audience's sense of security and allows horror film protagonists, such as those of Carrie ( 1976 ), Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) or An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 ) to be suddenly attacked by dark forces while resting in seemingly safe places.

Rising property prices in all London areas have helped to see a large increase in property redevelopment of its existing Edwardian and 1920s to 1940s housing stock, which in turn is attracting new residents looking for a clean, safe, and relatively green environment to live in, close to central London.

A local legend tells that the stop included a tunnel under New London from a safe house to a cave in the hollow of Honey Creek, near the location of the Friends Meetinghouse.

The last of Allectus's troops are besieged in London, and surrender on the condition they are granted safe passage out of Britain.

He wrote on July 11 from London " after a most easy and safe passage.

In the event, a new airspace authority, Thames Radar, was established to provide a radar control service and provide safe separations for London City arrivals and departures.

Campbell returned to England, preferring to stay with friends near Cheltenham, rather than return to London ( and his partner ) where he did not feel safe.

On 9 November 1678, Charles promised that he would sign any bill that would make them safe during the reign of his successor, so long as they did not impeach the right of his successor ; this speech was widely misreported as Charles ' having agreed to name the Duke of Monmouth as his successor, leading to celebratory bonfires throughout London, with crowds drinking the health of " the King, the Duke of Monmouth, and Earl of Shaftesbury, as the only three pillars of all safety.

During the Irish Civil War they were transferred to her daughter in Gormanston Castle for safe keeping, but were almost all destroyed later by German bombs in London during World War II.

The second story focuses on a young Japanese girl named Kumiko, daughter of a Yakuza boss sent to London to keep her safe while her father engages in a gang war with other top Yakuza leaders.

By the 1850s, Edmonstone & Allan was described by a credit-rating service as an " old, safe and respectable House ... one of the wealthiest concerns in the Province ", known for its responsible management and its links to trading houses in London, Liverpool, and Glasgow.

Although initially set in the Victorian era, in one episode Charlie was sent through time to modern day London by an inventor who had disguised his time machine as a safe.

Halcrow's expertise was also used in preparatory works at the Manod slate quarry in north Wales, used to keep treasures from the National Gallery, London safe from enemy air raids.

Like the Ravens of the Tower of London, there is a myth that states London Stone's safety is linked to that of the city itself ; " So long as the Stone of Brutus is safe, so long shall London flourish ".

During World War II the hall was a safe home for nuns from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, London, and it was used as a school for girls evacuated from Woldingham School near London.

Forth found a safe seat in the Outer London suburbs for Bromley and Chislehurst in the heart of the large London Borough of Bromley.

At the ensuing by-election, held on 22 October 1970, Baker was elected for the safe Conservative seat of St Marylebone in central London.