Sentences with phrase «ukip target seats»

Lord Ashcroft also released four new constituency polls, this time covering four UKIP target seats (or at least, four where he had previously found them doing well, I'm not sure whether Cannock Chase was ever a seat they were targetting — certainly Ashcroft's poll found respondents reporting a lower level of UKIP activity there).

ComRes have a new battleground poll out, results here, this time looking at 10 Conservative held UKIP target seats.

Not exact matches

The party slipped to third place in Eastleigh, one of its top ten target seats for the general election, behind Ukip and the Liberal Democrats.

Ukip will attempt to secure the balance of power in British national politics in the 2015 general election by targeting around 30 seats, Nigel Farage has said.

Even if Ukip wins very few seats, it could split the Tory vote and prevent the party securing its own target seats.

Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

In our target regions of Eastern and North - West, especially, we think that UKIP are highly - vulnerable to losing a seat to us.

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.

Currently, Ukip is likely to win another four seats; but this figure could well change, depending on whether local voters in their key target seats can be persuaded that Ukip has a real chance of victory locally.

«Anyone who's a parliamentary candidate for UKIP, particularly in a target and winnable seat like South Basildon and Thurrock, has to watch how they express themselves,» Mr O'Flynn said.

Simmonds is the latest Tory MP to announce stepping down in a seat targeted by Ukip.

However it looks like it's missed out on target seats and will score fewer Welsh votes than UKIP.

Hailing a «breakthrough» in Scotland and a strong showing in Wales, he said UKIP would target its first Westminster seat in next week's Newark by - election.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage targets seven or eight Welsh seats at the general election and plans a «massive assault» on the assembly elections.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage is targeting seven or eight Welsh seats at the general election and plans a «massive assault» on the assembly elections.

The news comes after a chaotic few days for Ukip, which saw Kerry Smith quit as a candidate in a top target seat after being forced to apologise for a series of offensive comments.

The poll covered some seats that UKIP announced as targets last year but taking out some that no longer seem realistic, like Aylesbury, and adding some obvious ommissions like Castle Point.

For all the focus of young voter turnout, the behaviour of 2015 Ukip voters is absolutely crucial in numerous target seats.

At the moment you're probably right that even if Con picked up every UKIP voter, it wouldn't affect the result in those most marginal seats... but it would make a difference in target seats further down the list, and consequently to Labour's majority / largest party prospects.

A UKIP candidate for one of the party's target seats has resigned, after making offensive remarks in a phone call.

As was the case last year, UKIP are doing fantastically well at coming second in many places and that doesn't build the council base they need to build support in target seats for the general election.

With Labour back up to 2005 strength, and UKIP the pseudo-incumbent and strong challenger, this will return the seat to a target marginal.

Nigel Farage's Ukip is to target at least 20 parliamentary seats at the next general election, using his party's success in Thursday's council elections as the launch pad for an all - out assault on the House of Commons, party officials have revealed.

Of course by - elections are wholly different from general elections, but the result for UKIP in Rochester, 271st in their list of target seats, hardly suggests that the Farage phenomenon, based largely on sentiment rather than policy, has lost momentum.

Mr Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

Ukip leader says Englishness is «something our political classes look down upon» as he hosts party in target seat of South Thanet