Sentences with phrase «conservative target seats»

There is a new poll by CrosbyTextor in the Sunday Telegraph, conducted in the top thirty Conservative target seats.

David Cameron's A-list of preferred candidates got a boost this weekend when two women were selected in Conservative target seats for the next general election.

A separate poll by Populus for the Times newspaper focusing on Conservative target seats from numbers 50 to 149 placed the two parties neck and neck, on 38 % apiece.

Moving on there were some interesting bits of data about tactical voting, particularly in the first Populus poll, back in November 2004, which was conducted in 160 Conservative target seats and included some questions on tactical voting behaviour.

These are (presumably) aimed at a number of Conservative target seats around the country.

Not exact matches

«My strategy in West Worcestershire was always to fight it as if it was a target seat for the Conservatives,» she says.

It was difficult for both parties to fight against the «fear factor» whipped up by the press and the huge amount of direct mail which the Conservatives poured into target seats, but there were also significant self - inflicted wounds.

Taking all these factors together - regional variations, over-statement of the Labour vote and more vigorous campaigning in target seats - and we would expect a modest Conservative majority of 30 to 50.

To get an idea of how disastrous this election has been for the Conservatives, look at what has happened in the Labour held seats that the Tories were targeting yesterday but didn't win:

The Conservatives succeeded tactically and mostly at the expense of their coalition partner, the Lib Dems, by gaining 26 of their seats and 10 of Labour's, destroying Labour's ambitions to target 80 Conservative - held seats.

For the Conservatives, a majority will remain out of reach if they fail to win target seats in places like Bolton West and Wirral South.

From December 2005 to September 2010, Lord Ashcroft was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for the target seats campaign and opinion research.

In 2010, though the Conservatives did not achieve the national vote share they wanted, the party's targeting strategy meant it won 23 more Labour seats and 9 more Liberal Democrat seats than it would have done on a uniform swing.

In his interesting analysis of the Scottish political scene (TP September), Robert Waller mistakenly states that «the Conservatives were actually third in some of the highest seats on their target list... such as Edinburgh... South West».

The 1990s electoral tactic of announcing drastic future expenditure targets and forcing Labour to accept or reject them is designed for an electoral battleground for the swing voters in the marginal seats in contention between Labour and the Conservatives, almost all of which are in England.

The party is asking the following rather pertinent question: «If the Conservatives can't beat us in the 11th top target seat under these circumstances, when can they beat us?»

Many commentators have already condemned the list, which will be used to pick candidates in target seats, as too politically - correct, although Conservative officials insist that local party associations will have the ultimate choice about who stands.

Drawing on his unique perspective as the man responsible for the party's target seats and polling, the 133 - page book gives Lord Ashcroft's view of the Conservatives» progress since their third defeat in 2005, the reasons for the party's failure to win an overall majority in 2010, and David Cameron's decision to form a coalition with -LSB-...]

At the 2005 election the seat was Liberal Democrat target number 18, and Conservative target number 50; it had been frequently described in the media as a «three - way marginal», and all parties fought hard for the constituency.

Drawing on his unique perspective as the man responsible for the party's target seats and polling, the 133 - page book gives Lord Ashcroft's view of the Conservatives» progress since their third defeat in 2005, the reasons for the party's failure to win an overall majority in 2010, and David Cameron's decision to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Between December 2005 and September 2010, I was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, with special responsibility for the target seats campaign and opinion research.

The polls of Conservative - held Ukip targets found the party failing to make breakthroughs even in seats where they won their best results in last year's European elections.

Funding targeting key marginal seats is being provided by one of the Conservatives» shadiest sources of cash, as the debate about party funding continues.

Again, if the Conservatives were only a little way short (and the recent surge to the Lib Dems may so decimate Labour that the Tories do better in target seats than expected), they could try to mimic the final years of John Major's government, when the Conservative PM was forced to rely on the votes of Ulster Unionists.

The night began well for Cameron with a victory at Kingswood, 135th on the Conservative target list and regarded by many as a benchmark seat.

His team of election strategists, led by Stephen Gilbert (see No 26), have funneled money into the 150 or so target seats and now reside in Conservative Campaign Headquarters itself.

The DUP, which is targeting 10 seats this time, is pragmatic about its partnerships and famous for driving hard bargains: it propped John Major up against Conservative rebels in the 1990s but also saved Labour from defeat over anti-terrorism legislation two years ago.

(On Monday we listed the 27 who are no longer seeking a Westminster seat, on Tueday we listed the 18 who have been selected to stand in Conservative held seats and yesterday we detailed the 27 who will be standing in target seats.)

It is difficult to prove that the battlebus campaign was the factor that swung the last election in the Conservatives» favour, although it was specifically targeting marginal and swing seats, and clearly the Tories saw it as a key campaigning tool.

Today, Cllr Leah Fraser, the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Wallasey, calls for a distinction between immediate target seats and more medium term targets.

Scotland on Sunday reports that the Scottish Conservative Party is targeting eleven seats in the General Election, including that of the Chancellor, Alistair Darling:

[10][11] He was also a target of the strategy led by Lord Ashcroft to concentrate resources on key marginal seats which saw # 50,000 donated to the Conservative campaign to unseat him.

In Lib Dem target seats Labour voters were far more likely to vote tactically against the Conservatives than against the Liberals by a margin of about 4 - 1.

A representative survey for CND, seen by the NS, shows that Labour's parliamentary candidates - from traditionally safe seats to unwinnable Conservative strongholds through to some of the most vulnerable of Labour's target seats - are overwhelmingly against maintaining the nuclear deterrent when it comes up for renewal.

I managed to speak to almost half of the 80 candidates standing in those Conservative seats we were targeting... I have also spoken to many parliamentary colleagues and other stakeholders in the Labour party.

In Scotland, Labour gained one seat from the SNP — Edinburgh Southern — but failed to take other targets and was beaten into third place by the Conservatives — a result that would have been unthinkable in the past.

Over the next hour I'm particularly looking out for Nuneaton, a Conservative seat which Labour was targeting - and the first Scottish seat, the Western Isles.

Labour targets Corby, Croydon Central, Plymouth Moor View, Morley and Outwood, Derby North, Gower, Thurrock and Telford all have smaller Conservative majorities than the additional number of voters since 2015 - although in these seats, with much smaller student populations and in some cases many elderly voters, other factors are likely to play a far bigger role in determining the outcome.

In the Conservative held target seats that Labour needed to gain there was a swing towards the Conservatives (presumably because most of these seats were being contested by first time Conservative incumbents).

The first results of the night had produced Labour wins in Sunderland but outside of its strongholds in the north, it failed to take vital seats such as the number one target of Warwickshire North, where the Conservatives increased their share of the vote.

As a Conservative, I find a «crumb of comfort» in knowing that the former leader of the LibDems has started funding our target seats campaigns.

You can see that marginals do behave a little differently sometimes — the Conservatives managed a better swing in their target Labour marginals in 2010, Labour did better in those seats where they had fresh incumbency in 2001 — but the differences aren't huge.

The Enfield Southgate seat was low down on the list of Tory targets (number 114) but David took the seat - once held by Michael Portillo - with the biggest swing of any victorious Conservative candidate.

When Democrat Michael P. Kearns stumped the experts back in 2012 by winning the 142nd Assembly seat on the Republican and Conservative lines, he planted a big target on one of Albany's top leaders — then - Speaker Sheldon Silver.

With 585 constituencies, the party can run 10 open primaries a week from January 2014, each one in a different part of the country, starting with seats notionally held by the Conservatives pre-2010, then those notionally won in 2010, then the target seats for 2015, then the rest.

It is twentieth on the Conservative target list and is a seat we must win if we are to win the election nationally.

Below is a well crafted video presented by the Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie which introduces us to the party's candidates in the eleven seats north of the border where the Conservatives are targeting resources at the general election.

But already set to take their place are 10 women amongst the candidates in notionally Conservative - held seats and 31 in the top 116 target seats which, on paper, would deliver a Conservative Commons majority.

The local council recently went Conservative so this seat - number 100 on our target list - is winnable.

Of those original 100 A-Listers, 17 are among the candidates selected for a notionally Conservative seat, with a further 25 standing in target seats.