Sentences with phrase «highly marginal seat»

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

He soon realised that Croydon Central was in effect a highly marginal seat as the demography was moving against the Conservatives.

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.

Prior to setting up his own communications business, he was on the Conservative Party's professional staff working for Ministers and high - profile back bench MPs, where he masterminded and devised a number of community campaigns which saw the Conservative Party holding to a number of highly marginal seats.

Not exact matches

Boundaries have changed in many seats since 2005, and the strength of the Lib Dems means some two - way marginals now look more like three - way marginals: add in the rise of smaller parties such as the Greens, plus highly volatile national polls, and even hardened tactical voters may struggle to work out which horse to back locally this time.

Both outcomes are highly possible as are many other scenarios in between, resulting in many different possible results in marginal seats like this.

Welsh Conservatives did well in the Assembly elections in gaining a numner of first past the post seats and causing a number of others to become highly marginal.