Sentences with phrase «constituency campaigns»

A large body of evidence shows the major parties focus their greatest constituency campaign efforts on their most marginal contests, the constituencies where a few votes either way might change the result.

We employ data on constituency campaign spending to challenge this interpretation.

Extensive and active constituency campaigning does work, especially when it involves direct contact with voters.

The Regional and Constituency Campaign teams will be composed as directed by the National Campaign Coordinating Committee.

At issue was whether the costs of a Conservative campaign battlebus should have been accounted for by local campaigns where the legal spending limits are tighter at between about # 11,000 and # 16,000, depending on the size of the constituency

In October 2008, the Electoral Commission cleared the Conservative Party of breaking electoral law by using an MIC - funded company, Coleshill Campaigning Services (aka Constituency Campaigning Services), as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats.

Liberal Democrat MPs have tended to be particularly good at building personal bases in their constituencies, and the party has a reputation for highly effective constituency campaigning.

Indeed, academic work analysing the 2015 election suggests that national campaign spending is now a highly targeted effort which largely supported constituency campaigns.

However the Deputy constituency campaign coordinator for the NDC, Godwin Tsimese, who rushed to the meeting grounds of the youth to calm tempers down, said the party though is worried about the President's inability to visit the constituency, it is not enough justification for the youth to be worried.

Generally speaking, the party's vote is fairly dispersed; it does not yet have the local infrastructure, targeting experience and tactical nous to mount successful constituency campaigns.

And I am not pursuing here the significant challenges, offered by David Denver and others, to the Nuffield argument that constituency campaigning usually makes limited difference to the overall outcome.

But Labour stategists feel that the party will be severely weakened on the ground if they don't have an individual leading the party's constituency campaigning efforts.

The Agona West Constituency Campaign was also duly launched and the Constituency Campaign team led by Chairman Samuel Mpotah was inaugurated.

Speaking at the inauguration of the Constituency Campaign Task Force Team by the Regional Campaign Team in Tamale, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru indicated that he is no failure and his task as the campaign coordinator will not witness any failure.

All parties gain to some extent from their constituency campaigns, but the Liberal Democrats are a formidable force when it comes to doorstep electioneering.

The Liberal Democrats» constituency campaign is already in full election mode, and its staffers and activists are fully aware of the polls» dire predictions.

But the Conservatives insisted the Constituency Campaigning Services centre (CCS) based there was not part of the party, and should not be subject to normal party procedures.

Similar effects hold for the other parties» 2010 constituency campaigns.

Much recent analysis of British politics has assumed, explicitly or implicitly, that constituency campaigns have no impact upon an electorate that draws on an increasingly nationalized media for its information.

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Bole - Bamboi Constituency of the Northern Region has been hit hard following the sudden defection of the constituency campaign chairman, Braa Prex - doe.