Sentences with phrase «for marginal seats»

Since the election, it has been reported that Ashcroft would be writing a damning assessment of the general election campaign, in which he co-funded and managed a campaign for marginal seats.

The function of MPs is to fight for marginal seats.

A councillor in Islington, Davies had been properly selected by members for the marginal seat that, in due course, was to fall to Labour.

Not exact matches

The Liberal MP for the Victorian seat of Murray, Sharman Stone, said the Cadbury grant was all about trying to win a marginal Tasmanian seat yet the loss of SPC Ardmona from her region would present a «real manufacturing emergency».

Draft federal electoral boundaries for Queensland will be released on Friday, and several marginal seat holders will be waiting to learn their fate.

Councillors that won marginal seats on a tide of national popularity for their party are most likely to lose them when the tide ebbs.

He managed to squeeze in three separate visits, stopping for Welsh cakes and tea at the Dyffryn Gardens in the marginal seat of Vale of Glamorgan, then moving on to Brains Brewery in Cardiff, before finally taking a detour to Barry Island (and a quick vanilla ice cream and selfies with holidaying families).

He did not stumble in politics though as his charisma led him to victory in the highly marginal seat of Lewisham North for the Conservatives in 1958.

Today's Times quotes two Tories in marginal seats, who criticise Cameron for a series of «unforced errors» during the campaign and a failure to «deliver the lift in the national polls that we need».

Loss of his marginal seat in 1945, followed a few months later by his re-election for the safe seat of Bromley, was the base for his successful ministerial career after 1951 - housing, the Foreign Office and the Treasury.

The Labour party faces a challenging three - way fight for a marginal northern seat after the shock...

Persuading my editor to let me hire a vintage VW camper for a week to tour some of the most marginal (and beautiful) seats in the West Country seemed like quite a coup at the time.

First, while marginal seat polling has been too inconsistent to enable firm conclusions to be drawn, the regional variations bode well for the Conservatives.

It was a complex race in a marginal seat, which ended with a surprising Labour hold for Debbie Abrahams.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Ukip are replacing the Conservatives as the natural challengers to Labour in marginal seats across the country according to new polling conducted for the party.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

I decided to commission my own research to establish the real state of public opinion: the true level of support for the parties, the underlying attributes associated with each, whether the picture in marginal seats really was different to that in Britain as a whole, whether the Conservatives» 164 - seat battleground made sense, and why the candidates I was helping to fund were finding it so hard to build support.

Dobell is more at risk for Labor than its 5.1 % margin suggests, while Robertson remains a key marginal seat by any measure.

«For the exit poll seat projections to be right, Labour had to be wiped out in Scotland, the Liberal Democrats would have to be wiped out in their Tory marginals and we would have to done really badly in the English marginals,» the campaign aide recalled.

Well done, Sunder, for not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...

For more marginal seats, it is hard to see how Labor's state woes won't infect the federal campaign.

The Liberal candidate for the new WA seat of Burt is «very, very hopeful» of winning, despite marginal seat polling showing it is the most likely electorate in the state to go to Labor.

«CCHQ approves strong immigration message for campaigning in marginal seats Main The pre-election «ground war» is being won by the Conservatives»

The amigos reprised their act to prevent a plan to toll the East River bridges and create a new stream of money for the MTA, agreeing instead to a payroll tax that cost several marginal suburban Democrats their seats.

My puzzlement increased when the party said that, according to its private research, it was heading for victory in 103 of the 130 most marginal seats.

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.

My research has looked in detail attitudes to public policy issues, the prospects for each party, perceptions of political leaders, and the state of play in the marginal seats that determine the outcome of elections.

State Sen. Mimi Walters, who is facing marginal opposition in the open - seat race for California's 45th District.

It is a marginal seat between Plaid and the Labour Party, and until the 2016 Assembly election, had never been held by the same party for more than one consecutive term.

19th July 2017, Labour List: We mustn't hang about: party to pick 75 candidates for key marginal seats this year

Indeed, had it not been for our stronger performance in the marginal seats, Labour would have been the largest party and would have been able to continue in government.

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.

Research in marginal seats by Politics Home in August 2008 and September 2009, for example, found a significant boost for the Lib Dems in the follow - up question «And thinking specifically about your own constituency and the candidates who are likely to stand there which party's candidate do you think you will vote for in your own constituency at the next general election?»

Somewhat easier for a London MP close to Parliament — think of the logistics for a candidate fighting a marginal seat in Devon or Lancashire?

How to Win a Marginal Seat could have been a book for political anoraks full of do's and don'ts and blinding glimpses of the obvious that can be found in management leadership books.

She won a 22.6 % swing, but the seat will be marginal next time it comes up for election in 2015.

«Richard Harrington selected for Watford Main 119 of 120 Tory candidates in marginal seats support repeal of hunting ban»

But my fervent belief is that London's best hope for a better future is a Labour Government, so all of my campaigning energy is directed towards helping our Labour candidates in marginal seats win in 2015.

This applies to virtually all the Tory seats that Labour hopes to gain, for Conservative marginal are precisely the seats where Labour was turfed out last time.

@ChrisBryantMP: As for the rumours that Boris would go for the very marginal seat of corby - an inverted pyramid of piffle!

Facing an unnecessary by - election in a highly marginal seat at a difficult time for the Coalition government.

They are about how we do our politics — particularly the way that we willingly turn our backs of whole swathes of the nation in a quest for short - term advantage in a few marginal seats.

A little - reported result of the 2015 general election was a substantial reduction in the number of marginal seats, and a consequent increase in the number of very safe ones for both the Conservatives and Labour.

For the 2015 election, the party would focus single - mindedly on holding 40 marginal seats and winning another 40.

I don't have a table for how they break down in terms of marginal seats.

He has then created an urbanity index by overlaying 2001 Census data on population density — a proxy measure for urbanity — onto these marginal seats.

This seems to be on the back of opinion polls which may not have changed if you allow for their inbuilt margin of error and which certainly ignore the fact that Northern marginal seats are running ahead of the national figures.

Recent Labour selections for marginal Tory - held seats seem to confirm this thesis: most candidates who stood in the last election have been reselected.

Senior Labour backbencher and former minister Frank Field said: «If last night's vote heralds the start of Ukip's serious assault into Labour's neglected core vote, all bets are off for safer, let alone marginal seats at the next election.»