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safe seat
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n. (context chiefly British English) A seat in a legislature that is traditionally held by one political party because of the make-up of the local electorate
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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, ...
Usage examples of safe seat.
He would have made the perfect conservative MP somewhere in the shires, a nominal position, a nice safe seat.
They say he's bribing some lord to put him in a safe seat, so at the next election he should become a Member of Parliament.
Now he had a safe seat in the Home Counties, representing a mainly rural area between Swindon and High Wycombe.
Colonial stock, yes: but colonial stock included plenty of 'good' families, younger sons and daughters who had sought adventure rather than a safe seat in the family corporation.
But you've got to convince your potential ally that you're a pretty safe bet before you can persuade him to give up his nice, safe seat on the fence and jump down on your side.
Rodriguez, people's deputy for a safe seat in Sao Paulo, had a wide sallow face and just enough epicanthic fold to bring in the expatriate vote.
Hrama seemed content to stand still, providing a safe seat for Anele.
It will do until we can find a safe seat in the lower house for you.
It's a seat that has always been ours, a good safe seat, in the hands of a respected backbencher of great loyalty and little intellect.
She had just read in the Daily Mail that her husband had joined the Tory party and was expecting to be given a safe seat at any minute.
Otherwise Ruddygore will have nowhere to hole up, no safe seat of magic.
Soon after getting his safe seat he had been able to move into rooms in Albany which suited him perfectly.
His planet wasn't even a safe seat, swinging between Secularist and Loyal representatives for the last three centuries.
What if I said there was going to be a safe seat vacant before the next election?