article_snippet.sent: We came within 620 votes of taking a "safe" Labour seat, and actually, Ed Miliband would have had to resign as leader of Ed Miliband if We had done it.
article_snippet.sent: The problem in that case was that his party split the vote.'
article_snippet.sent: However, the party suffered a blow on Monday when a poll by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft showed the party was 17 points behind Labour in Great Grimsby.
article_snippet.sent: In 2010 the party failed to achieve even a single second place.
article_snippet.sent: The Hartlepool constituency has been held by Labour since The Hartlepool constituency was formed in 1974.
article_snippet.sent: In 2010, Ukip took just seven per cent of the vote and Labour's Iain Wright retained the seat with a 5,509 majority.
article_snippet.sent: Labour's Iain Wright replaced Peter Mandelson as the MP in a by-election in 2004 after the Labour grandee stood down to become a European Commissioner.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage's was re-elected in 2005 and 2009 before voters in the town backed a referendum to scrap the paid post in 2012.
article_snippet.sent: We came within 620 votes of taking a 'safe' Labour seat, and actually, Mr Cameron's Conservatives would have had to resign as leader of Mr Cameron's Conservatives if We had done it.
article_snippet.sent: The problem in that case was that his United Kingdom Independence Party split the vote, and We hadn't yet proclaimed We Australian-style points system plan for immigration, or We plans to take those on the minimum wage out of income tax completely.
article_snippet.sent: his United Kingdom Independence Party