Labour was still more than ten percentage points behind the Conservatives, who retained a three-figure majority in the House of Commons.

The Conservatives retained control at the 2010 local elections, after which the political composition of the council was:

The Residents ' Association in St Andrews Ward and the Conservatives in Squirrels Health Ward each retained one seat, the Residents ' Association lost South Hornchurch to an independent candidate.

In the local elections of 2007 the Conservatives retained the seat but with a lesser majority than previous elections.

He won 14, 302 votes and retained his deposit but Selwyn Lloyd held on to the seat for the Conservatives.

He was retained as the NDP's External Affairs Critic after the Progressive Conservatives won a second consecutive majority government in the 1988 federal election, and was also chosen as his party's spokesman for federal-provincial relations and the Constitution.

Notwithstanding all of this, Peterson's Liberal Party still retained a comfortable lead over the Progressive Conservatives and NDP in mid-1990 public opinion polls.

His seat was retained by Conservative Sydney Chapman in the general election on 3 May 1979, in which the Conservatives returned to government.

The Conservatives lost almost half of their popular vote and retained only 10 of the 66 seats in the Legislature.

Hodge retained her seat at the May 2010 general election, doubling her majority to over 16, 000, following a hugely unsuccessful campaign by the BNP which saw Nick Griffin come third behind the Conservatives, and his party lose all 12 of its seats on Barking and Dagenham Council.

Lady Hermon retained her seat successfully against the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists in the 2010 Westminster election.

Macdonald led a conservative campaign emphasizing stability, and retained the Conservatives ' majority in the House of Commons.

By-elections were held throughout the fall in which the Liberals retained the seats they had been disbarred from, losing just two, while picking up two from the Conservatives in return.

When the Conservatives returned to power in 1895 under Lord Salisbury, Onslow was made Under-Secretary of State for India, a post he retained until 1900, and was then once again Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1900 and 1903 ( from 1902 to 1903 under the premiership of Arthur Balfour ).

Greenway's Liberals were defeated by the Conservatives under Hugh John Macdonald in 1899, although McMillan retained his seat over Conservative A. J.

However in 2001, Ken Livingstone decided not to offer the role to the Conservatives, claiming it would be disruptive, so Nicky Gavron retained the post.

Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives and Liberal-Conservatives retained power, defeating the Liberal Party of Edward Blake.

In 2005 its then chairman Tom Phelps Penry narrowly won the Walton division ( North, Ambleside and half of Central ward ) on Surrey County Council from the Conservatives, and retained the seat in 2009.

He retained his Middlesbrough seat in the 1895 general election but narrowly lost to Samuel Alexander Sadler, a Conservative, in the 1900 election — an election characterised by a considerable swing towards the Conservatives.

She retained the seat in the 2001 election, but was deselected by her Constituency Labour Party before the 2005 election, when the seat was regained for the Conservatives by Rob Wilson.

However, at the general election in the same year he forsook Westminster and was elected member for North Wiltshire, which seat he retained, acting in general with the Conservatives, until his death.

He retained this position until the 1958 provincial election, in which Campbell's Liberal-Progressive lost power to Dufferin Roblin's Progressive Conservatives.

Unlike other constituencies nearby, such as Broxtowe and Gedling, which were previously held by the Conservatives, they retained Rushcliffe in the Labour landslide at the 1997 general election.

In the event the swing to the Conservatives was 0. 3 %, and the Liberal Democrats retained the seat, with Roger Williams remaining the MP.

Conservatives were alarmed by the continuous increase of the socialists ’ support during 1899-1916, which had climaxed in 1917 with their dominance in the Parliament and Senate, without the offsetting control of the emperor and Russian administration.

His " National Liberal " coalition won a massive landslide, winning 525 of the 707 contests ; however, the Conservatives had control within the Coalition of more than two-thirds of its seats.

The Conservatives regained control in May 1977, winning 64 seats under their new Thatcherite leader Horace Cutler against a Labour total of just 28.

In 1968 the Conservatives formed a majority for the first and last time to date until they lost control to Labour in 1971.

Labour won control of the Council with 35 seats while the Conservatives now have 25.

The Conservatives regained control in 1987.

At the same election Labour took control of Ealing Council from the Conservatives with a major swing against the Tories, which conflicted with the nationwide swing in the General Election.

The Conservatives gained control at the 2002 election and held it until Labour took control back at the 2010 election.

Following a number of by-elections and a defection, the Conservatives regained control on 5 July 2001.

After the 2011 parish council elections, the Conservatives remained in overall control, with 28 seats being divided between the Conservatives ( 26 ), Labour, ( 1 ), Liberal Democrat ( 1 ).

The council was controlled by the Labour Party from 1973, when the shadow council was elected in preparation for the 1974 merger, until the 2008 local elections, when the Conservatives gained control, ending 35 years of Labour rule.

In March 2008 a further by-election put Conservatives in control but in the council election of May 2011 the lack of Conservative and other parties ' candidates let in a Labour majority before the election was even held.

They further suggested that Conservative concern for control of lands was due to their desire to make favourable land concessions to the unpopular Canadian Pacific Railway, which had historically been friendly with the Conservatives, and for whom Bennett had acted as solicitor.

The Conservatives won control of this council in shadow elections in May 2008, winning a majority of seats in the Ellesmere Port area for the first time.

In the 2010 General Election, the Conservatives gained the largest share of the region by popular vote and took control of the number of seats, with 40 % of the region's electorate voting Conservative, 31 % Labour and 21 % Liberal Democrat ( very similar to the East Midlands ).

When the Conservatives won the election, Joseph was made Secretary of State for Social Services, which put him in charge of the largest bureaucracy of any government department but kept him out of control of economics.

These, and further reforms in 1977, saw the Scottish Conservatives transformed into a regional unit, with its personnel, finance, and political offices under the control of the leadership in London.

A posting from a person claiming to be David Higginbottom, Prentice's campaign manager in the last election, said, " It is unfortunate that at a time when Conservatives need to be working together to prevent what is a desperate power play by the opposition to seize control of our democratically elected government, that a site like this would be created.

Her third husband, Leon Bogdan, was a local leader of the Conservatives in Neamţ County ( according to the memoirist Constantin Argetoianu, Lucia was the one exercising real control over the organization's branch ).

Daisley became Leader of the Council in April 1996, when the death of a Conservative councillor placed the Conservatives in a minority ; he negotiated a deal with the Liberal Democrat group which allowed Labour to gain control with the casting vote of the Mayor.

Between them, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats control 363 seats in the House of Commons, with a majority of 76 seats.