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safe seat
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safe seat
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a Parliamentary seat that at an election is sure to be held by the same party as held it before
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safe seat n (Pol) → seggio sicuro
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But that doesn't hold in safe seats like in Birkenhead or Bournemouth where the Labour and the Conservative candidate respectively are invariably returned to Parliament.
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If every vote really counted at elections it would break the selfsatisfaction of MPs in safe seats.
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Their safe seats must have bred a sense of complacency.
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