If Raab loses his seat, it could be the big "Portillo moment" of the 2019 election.
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Any of these could provide the sort of historic "Portillo moment" that is worth staying up for.
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IN THE general election of 1997 the Conservatives in Enfield Southgate, a north London seat, suffered what became known as the Portillo moment.
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Any of these could provide the kind of "Portillo moment" that will be remembered for years to come by those who stay up to watch the results.
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The result has been billed as a "Portillo moment," a reference to the dramatic result in Enfield Southgate in 1997dramatic declaration of the result for the Enfield Southgate constituency in the 1997 UK general election, which saw Conservative cabinet minister Michael Portillo lose his seat to Labour.
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The Guardian newspaper described it as "Ireland's Portillo moment". Coughlan received a lump sum of €237,000, and an annual pension of €140,000.
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As Defence Secretary, he pressed for a course of "clear blue water"; purist policies separating the Conservatives from the Labour Party. Portillo unexpectedly lost the hitherto safe Conservative Enfield Southgate seat at the 1997 general election. This led to the coining of the expression "Portillo moment". Returning to the Commons in the 1999 by-election in Kensington and Chelsea, Portillo rejoined the frontbench as Shadow Chancellor.
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FG looks to form Govt as final results emerge. RTÉ This was easily the worst election result in the party's history; previously, the party had never won fewer than 60 seats in an election. The most high-profile casualty was Tánaiste Mary Coughlan, who lost the seat she had held in Donegal South-West since 1987. Britain's Guardian newspaper described it as "Ireland's Portillo moment".
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From 1950 to the 1983 general election, this constituency was known as Southgate. The prefix of the seat's London Borough was added in 1974. The seat gained national attention in the 1997 general election when Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Defence was unexpectedly defeated on a massive swing - the 'Portillo moment'. Portillo had been widely expected to contest the Conservative leadership and his defeat the media took to epitomise the Labour landslide victory.
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Larry Elliott of The Guardian described this as the Portillo moment of the election. Following his electoral defeat, he became a senior fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and a visiting professor to the Policy Institute at King's College London. He was appointed as the chairman of Norwich City F.C. in December 2015. Balls was a contestant on series 14 of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, surviving until week 10.
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Outgoing Finance Minister Brian Lenihan Jnr barely retained his Dublin West seat on the fifth count, and was, until his death on 10 June 2011, the lone Fianna Fáil TD from the capital. Notably, the party was completely shut out in Dublin Central, which former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern had represented for 34 years. The most high-profile casualty was Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills Mary Coughlan, who lost the seat she had held in Donegal South-West since 1987. The Guardian newspaper described it as "Ireland's Portillo moment".
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At the 2010 general election, Morley and Outwood was won by Ed Balls of the Labour Party, who had been MP for Normanton since 2005, and served as Labour's Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to 2015. Balls narrowly lost the seat at the 2015 general election to the Conservative Party candidate Andrea Jenkyns which was described by Larry Elliott of The Guardian as a "Portillo moment". The 2015 general election result gave the Conservatives that year their sixth-most marginal majority of their 331 seats won, by percentage of majority.List of Conservative MPs elected in 2015 by % majority UK Political.info.
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The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, partially replacing the earlier and ancient Warwick constituency which until that year had sent two MPs to Westminster.2010 post- revision map non-metropolitan areas and unitary authorities of England ;Political history Represented by Conservatives from 1910–1997, the seat was for much of this time a safe seat, seeing frequent majorities of more than 10,000 votes, and the seat was uncontested in both 1918 and 1922. The seat had not been expected to change hands in the 1997 general election: as such James Plaskitt's defeat of Dudley Smith was a Portillo moment, without the decapitation of a government frontbencher. Plaskitt increased his majority in the 2001 election, but on a lower turnout. In the 2005 election, Warwick and Leamington was 85th on the Conservative list of target seats, meaning that to gain it they would have required a somewhat greater swing than was seen nationally.
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