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• Safe_seat abstract "A safe seat is a seat (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. In such seats, there is very little chance of a seat changing hands because of the political leanings of the electorate in the constituency concerned and/or the popularity of the incumbent member. The opposite (i.e. more competitive) type of seat is a marginal seat.In countries with parliamentary government, parties often try to ensure that their most talented or influential politicians are selected to contest these seats — in part to ensure that these politicians can stay in parliament, regardless of the specific election result, and that they can concentrate on ministerial roles without needing to spend too much effort on managing electorate-specific issues.Unsurprisingly, candidate selection for a party's safe seats is usually keenly contested, although many parties restrict or forbid challenges to the nomination of sitting members. Other parties will often be compelled to nominate much less well-known individuals (such as backroom workers or youth activists in the party), who will sometimes do little more than serve as paper candidates who do little or no campaigning, or will use the contest to gain experience so that they become more likely to be selected for a more winnable seat.Safe seats can become marginal seats (and vice versa) gradually as voter allegiances shift over time. However, this shift can happen more rapidly for a variety of reasons. The retirement or death of a popular sitting member may make a seat more competitive, as the accrued personal vote of a long-serving parliamentarian will sometimes have resisted countervailing demographic trends. An independent or third party candidate with an ideology close to that of the incumbent party may also be able to make a more credible challenge than more established parties. Also, traditionally safe seats can be more vulnerable in by-elections, especially for governing parties.Voters in safe seats usually have little chance to affect election outcomes - and thus parties can theoretically decide to ignore those voters' concerns, as they have no effect on the election result. This is often regarded as undemocratic, and is a major argument in favour of various multi-member proportional representation election methods. Safe seats may receive far less political funding than marginal seats, as the parties will attempt to \"buy\" marginal seats with funding (a process known in America and Australia as \"Pork Barrelling\") while ignoring safe seats which can reliably fall to the same party every time; this is especially true in cases where the safe seat is held by the minority party.In countries that do not apply the first past the post rule, the seats of some candidates can still be safe due to lists being representative of national subdivisions. If a party is strong enough nationwide to gather representations in all subdivisions, the top candidate(s) on each list tend to be very safely elected to parliament. This is seen in the extremely proportional election systems of the Nordic countries for example.".
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• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink 1997_Constitution_of_Fiji.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink 2006_Fijian_coup_dxc3xa9tat.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Agriculture_and_Fisheries_(constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Alabamas_6th_congressional_district.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Alberta.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Antony_Green.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Area_codes_416,_647,_and_437.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Arundel_and_South_Downs_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Auckland.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Electoral_Commission.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Labor_Party.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Australian_federal_election,_2007.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Beaconsfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Beauséjour_(electoral_district).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Birmingham,_Alabama.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Blake_Richards.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Bognor_Regis_and_Littlehampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Bootle_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Brian_Mulroney.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Buckinghamshire.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink By-election.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Californias_12th_congressional_district.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_federal_election,_1935.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_federal_election,_1993.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_federal_election,_1997.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_federal_election,_2004.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_federal_election,_2006.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_federal_election,_2008.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_federal_election,_2011.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_federal_election,_2015.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Category:Elections.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Category:Political_terminology.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Central_Nova.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Chelsea_and_Fulham_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink City_of_Sunderland.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Civic_Party.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Congressional_district.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Conservative_Alliance-Matanitu_Vanua.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Conservative_Party_(UK).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Conservative_Party_of_Canada.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Crowfoot_(electoral_district).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Democratic_Alliance_for_the_Betterment_and_Progress_of_Hong_Kong.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Democratic_Party_(Hong_Kong).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Democratic_Party_(United_States).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Division_of_Batman.
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• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Division_of_Murray.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Douglas_Alexander.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink East_Devon_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink East_Worthing_and_Shoreham_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Education_(constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Electoral_Reform_Society.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Electoral_district.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Elmer_MacKay.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Fiji_Labour_Party.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Fijian_general_election,_1999.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Fijian_general_election,_2001.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Fijian_general_election,_2006.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink First-past-the-post_voting.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Flintshire.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Functional_constituency_(Hong_Kong).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Fylde_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink George_Galloway.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Gerrymandering.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Gordon_Brown.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Haltemprice_and_Howden_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink History_of_the_United_States_Democratic_Party.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Home_counties.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Hong_Kong_Professional_Teachers_Union.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink House_of_Representatives_of_Fiji.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Incumbent.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Indians_in_Fiji.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Inner_London.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Ip_Kin-yuen.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Irwin_Cotler.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Issues_affecting_the_single_transferable_vote.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Jean_Chrétien.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Jim_Murphy.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Kevin_Sorenson.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Kirkcaldy_and_Cowdenbeath_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Labour_Party_(UK).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Legal_(constituency).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Legislature.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Liberal_Democrats.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Liberal_Party_(UK).
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Liberal_Party_of_Australia.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Liberal_Party_of_Canada.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Canadian_federal_electoral_districts.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink List_of_United_Kingdom_Parliament_constituencies.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink List_of_United_States_congressional_districts.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink List_of_political_parties_in_Northern_Ireland.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink Liverpool.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink London.
• Safe_seat wikiPageWikiLink London_Borough_of_Hackney.

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