Sentences with phrase «into marginal seats»

A tight - knit party with most of its talent in ministerial jobs — and the Lib Dems» traditional tendency of spending huge energy cementing themselves into marginal seats — means there's been little in the way of organised factions among their backbenchers.

[9][10] He was one of 130 candidates who received help from 20,000 countryside campaigners from the Countryside Party who «poured into marginal seats all over Britain» in an attempt to unseat anti-hunting Labour MPs.

But in 2014, as a failed parliamentary candidate desperate to get back into the party's good graces, he launched a grassroots volunteer scheme that sent party members into marginal seats to distribute leaflets, knock on doors, and work the voters.

If that wasn't enough, the last election was influenced by an individual who poured # 50,000 into marginal seats to influence the vote.

Boundary changes in 2010 transformed it into a marginal seat that was won by Charlotte Leslie for the Conservatives.

Not exact matches

«Ukip is getting itself now into a position in some of the marginals where it is in a serious position to win a seat in parliament and not just to split the vote.»

«The UKIP threat is draining Tory support in key marginal seats so much that the party could let Ed Miliband into Downing Street, according to a poll released today by Lord Ashcroft, former deputy chairman of the Conservative party.

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.»

Fighting any marginal seat is difficult but Jim's elevation to the Cabinet provides a new set of challenges, not least of which is the amount of money the Labour Party are pumping into his campaign for re-election.

In 1997 and 2001 the seat was a very close Conservative / Labour marginal, but in 2005 the Conservatives managed to turn it into a relatively safe seat.

The Labour parliamentary candidate for a key marginal seat was arrested after crashing into a roundabout on Monday.

The Tories may do well in the south of England, where they're fighting marginal seats against the Liberal Democrats — fleeing Lib Dem voters will go to Labour, which should translate into safer Tory seats — but it's in the north of England and the East Midlands where there are many Conservative MPs hanging onto their seats against Labour challengers.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

The two main parties are in the low 30s in the polls now in large part because of UKIP, but uniform change still seems to provide a reasonable guide as to how those overall vote shares translate into seats among key Con - Lab and Lab - Con marginals in England and Wales.

With such a massive fundraising edge, the DCCC is smartly moving to expand their target list into a series of Republican - leaning open seats and GOP incumbents representing marginal districts.

Labor's most marginal seats going into the 2013 election are inner - city Hindmarsh (ALP 6.1 %) and Adelaide (ALP 7.5 %).

Under the first past the post electoral system, many Labour votes were «wasted» as part of large majorities for MPs in safe seats rather than into holding onto marginal seats.

Lord Ashcroft has become a powerful figure at Conservative HQ, where he is credited with devising the party's marginal seat strategy, pouring resources into constituencies where Labour MPs are defending small majority.

The now powerful party figure is credited with devising its marginal seat strategy, pouring resources into constituencies where Labour MPs are defending small majorities.

The Liberal Party appeared to shift campaign resources into defending its safer seats, Labor achieving substantial swings to win the marginal seats of Kingston, Makin and Wakefield, but failing to dislodge the Liberal Party in Boothby and Sturt.

ConservativeHome has been highlighting the role of the public sector unions as they pour money into Labour's marginal seats campaign and as they also build up a war chest to «unleash hell» on any incoming Tory government.

Seats are divided into six types: Hopeless — lost by more than 20 points; Little Chance — those lost by 10 - 20 points; Marginal Lost — lost by 0 - 10 points; Marginal Won — won by 0 - 10 points; Safe — won by 10 - 20 points; and Very Safe — won by more than 20 points.

Prosecutors have to decide whether to charge the MPs or their agents, after a 10 - month investigation into whether party spending on an election battlebus that brought activists to marginal seats was wrongly recorded as national spending.

It has led to claims that the party effectively bought seats by bussing activists into areas with marginal seats and then putting them up in hotels.

The SNP surge has indeed turned some of the safest seats in the country into competitive marginals.

Conservative backbenchers were expressing fears on Saturday that Ukip — which leapfrogged the Conservatives into second place in Thursday's Eastleigh byelection — represents a serious threat to their support not just in the south of England but also in the north, where the Tories face a struggle to defend a number of key marginal seats at the 2015 general election.

In recent years Tory financier Lord Ashcroft has poured money into local parties to help win marginal seats, he said.

Frank Field: If this is «start of UKIP's... assault into Labour's neglected core vote, all bets are off for safer, let alone marginal seats»

Given the amount of pork flowing into Tory marginal seats, I'm surprised the government haven't done anything about the Lincoln rail crossing, which splits the High Street in half and causes traffic chaos day and night.

The poll groups marginal seats into different regional battlegrounds.

I read an article somewhere on Islington council bwing a «nursery council» where the labour councillors are often parachuted across the country into marginal / safe seats.

At least in modern times (the post WW2 era), most cabinet ministers have always had safeish seats, the main reason being that you generally need to have sat for a couple of parliamentary terms to get into the cabinet and if you have a marginal seat you tend to lose it before you get to cabinet level.

Though they quarrel and compete with the Lib Dems, Blair and Brown need their votes not to collapse into the arms of David Cameron - «Come home to the Tories,» as he didn't say - if they are to save some of their own marginal seats next time.