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Definition of safe seat in English: safe seatnoun British A parliamentary seat that is likely to be retained with a large majority in an election. 稳得席位，保险席位（选举中极有可能赢得的议会席位） Example sentencesExamples - Okay, we're not going to win, but let's see if we can cause a stir in a few safe seats, maybe win a few points and, above all, do ourselves proud.
- In any case, he'll be the only black man in the Senate; and he'll have a relatively safe seat, as senate seats go.
- She has denied suggestions that she will either leave politics or seek a safe seat at Westminster.
- Labour suffered a key by-election defeat and saw its majority slashed in a formerly safe seat in a bad night for the Government.
- These have subsequently become safe seats for the party.
- The House defeat wasn't as humiliating as the loss of control in the Senate but it was part of a dismal picture that saw the Democrats lose what should have been safe seats in the House, Senate and gubernatorial races.
- In fact Birmingham is looking a bit grim for Labour, with them expressing concern that they might lose Edgebaston, considered a relatively safe seat with a majority of 12.4%.
- McFadden last night insisted that the final decision on who defends Labour's 12,464 majority in the Midlands safe seat would be left with the members of the constituency party.
- The Labour MPs who sat in their safe seats like Norman barons entrenched in their castles felt the first whiff of gunpowder in 2005, but in the end they remained beyond the cannon's reach.
- North Wiltshire, where the Tories are defending a 3,878 majority, also failed to make the pressure group's list of safe seats.
- Many such constituencies are safe seats where the same party regularly wins with an unassailable majority.
- While the Democrats only have to face the Republicans and a motley assortment of independents and greens, the Tory safe seats are subject to a sustained assault from the Liberal Democrats.
- They also tend to waste more of their votes piling up majorities in safe seats instead of capturing marginal ones.
- Well he ended up losing his safe seat of Miranda in the 1999 state election, better known as the Chika-slide.
- It found that young people living in constituencies with safe seats, where parties see little incentive in engaging with the electorate, are a particularly worry.
- Despite the interests of many Tory hopefuls looking for one of the few remaining safe seats, he has no intention of standing down in Kensington and Chelsea before the next election.
- And no, I don't like gerrymandered safe seats for liberal Democrats any more than I do for conservative Republicans.
- In 1977 [Lange] entered Parliament after winning selection as the Labour candidate for the safe seat of Mangere.
- Right now, those in safe seats can feel their vote is futile: ‘Labour/the Tories always win here anyway.’
- With a first at Oxford in oriental studies he entered Parliament in 1923 for the safe seat of Warwick and Leamington.
Definition of safe seat in US English: safe seatnounˌseɪf ˈsitˌsāf ˈsēt British A legislative seat that is likely to be retained with a large majority in an election. 稳得席位，保险席位（选举中极有可能赢得的议会席位） Example sentencesExamples - North Wiltshire, where the Tories are defending a 3,878 majority, also failed to make the pressure group's list of safe seats.
- McFadden last night insisted that the final decision on who defends Labour's 12,464 majority in the Midlands safe seat would be left with the members of the constituency party.
- The Labour MPs who sat in their safe seats like Norman barons entrenched in their castles felt the first whiff of gunpowder in 2005, but in the end they remained beyond the cannon's reach.
- In any case, he'll be the only black man in the Senate; and he'll have a relatively safe seat, as senate seats go.
- Many such constituencies are safe seats where the same party regularly wins with an unassailable majority.
- It found that young people living in constituencies with safe seats, where parties see little incentive in engaging with the electorate, are a particularly worry.
- In 1977 [Lange] entered Parliament after winning selection as the Labour candidate for the safe seat of Mangere.
- They also tend to waste more of their votes piling up majorities in safe seats instead of capturing marginal ones.
- She has denied suggestions that she will either leave politics or seek a safe seat at Westminster.
- The House defeat wasn't as humiliating as the loss of control in the Senate but it was part of a dismal picture that saw the Democrats lose what should have been safe seats in the House, Senate and gubernatorial races.
- Despite the interests of many Tory hopefuls looking for one of the few remaining safe seats, he has no intention of standing down in Kensington and Chelsea before the next election.
- In fact Birmingham is looking a bit grim for Labour, with them expressing concern that they might lose Edgebaston, considered a relatively safe seat with a majority of 12.4%.
- Okay, we're not going to win, but let's see if we can cause a stir in a few safe seats, maybe win a few points and, above all, do ourselves proud.
- Right now, those in safe seats can feel their vote is futile: ‘Labour/the Tories always win here anyway.’
- And no, I don't like gerrymandered safe seats for liberal Democrats any more than I do for conservative Republicans.
- Well he ended up losing his safe seat of Miranda in the 1999 state election, better known as the Chika-slide.
- Labour suffered a key by-election defeat and saw its majority slashed in a formerly safe seat in a bad night for the Government.
- These have subsequently become safe seats for the party.
- With a first at Oxford in oriental studies he entered Parliament in 1923 for the safe seat of Warwick and Leamington.
- While the Democrats only have to face the Republicans and a motley assortment of independents and greens, the Tory safe seats are subject to a sustained assault from the Liberal Democrats.
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