Sentences with phrase «key election battlegrounds»

With education and healthcare often acting as key election battlegrounds, the justice debate often gets left stuck behind the side - lines.

Labour suffered a major blow in a key election battleground when it failed to make in - roads against the Tories in Swindon — and both parties lost votes to Ukip.

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With the oil industry reeling from low prices and Southwestern Ontario a key battleground in the next election, it should come as no surprise to find an emphasis on manufacturing in the budget.

5) Edmonton - Glenora Represented by both PC and Liberal MLAs over the past twenty years, this constituency could be a key battleground for five opposition parties in the next election.

It clearly shows that in these marginal seats, the key battleground seats where the general election will be won and lost, voters are very concerned about threats to religious liberty and free speech.

The starting gun for the 2015 election has been well and truly fired, with the cost of living the key battleground.

In every previous general election I've covered, Scotland has hardly been a key battleground, consistently returning about 40 Labour MPs to Westminster.

Senate races will still be overshadowed by their presidential counterpart in the general election, especially when so many Senate battlegrounds — like those in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida — double as key contests in the presidential race.

How can it be right that the electoral battleground is fought in 100 key marginal seats which swing at each election and decide the colour of the government?

But at least three of them cover key battleground issues for the next election.

Here is your guide to the election battlegrounds, the key contests and what the results will mean for the party leaders.

The DCCC, the campaign arm of House Democrats, views New York as one of the key battleground states in its effort to flip enough Republican seats to gain control of the House in the November election.

UFT, New York State United Teachers and American Federation of Teachers members also have been converging on Nevada, Ohio, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania — key battleground states that could decide the election.

We've been reporting on candidate selections over the last few months, and now 40 are in place there is an opportunity to give an overview of the PPCs who will be fighting in some of the key battlegrounds of the general election campaign.

The endorsement from Gillibrand comes the same day as Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to stump for Democrats running in key Senate races on Long Island — a major battleground that could sway control of the narrowly divided chamber this election cycle.

Six months out from the likely date of the general election on May 6th, here's a pick of some of the key battlegrounds which could dominate the coming campaign.

Lord Ashcroft has repeated the same sort of large marginals poll that PoliticsHome did in 2008 and 2009, looking at the clusters of key marginal seats that will provide the battleground for the next general election.

The new Siena College poll comes as the presidential race has tightened nationally and in some key battleground states less than 60 days before the Nov. 8 election.

Obama is visiting the state tomorrow as part of a four - state tour of key battlegrounds this week — but will one visit a month before Election Day be enough to fire up state Democrats?

Alex Salmond will make Scottish devolution a key battleground in the general election after Labour resisted pressure to bring forward legislation to strengthen Holyrood's powers.

The district north of the New York City metro region is a key battleground in the November midterm elections.

Working in the key battleground state of Ohio, Ashley Bryant was an integral player in President Obama's internet - based mobilization effort in the 2012 election.

Amin was the first ethnic minority candidate to be chosen to fight May's election for the Tories, in the key battleground of Dudley North, which has a Labour majority of 649.

The 24th District race is expected to be a key battleground for both parties in next year's election.

Cuomo faces Republican Rob Astorino in this fall's election, with Long Island expected to be a key battleground.

A new ITV News poll shows Labour have a big lead in the battleground marginal seats that are key to next year's general election.

Despite its own underwhelming performance at the local elections, Labour was buoyed as a new poll by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft showed that Ed Miliband's party was 12 % ahead of the Tories in 26 key marginal battlegrounds.

The state will also be a key battleground in the general election contest.

President Bush's signature education program entered the spotlight last week in Iowa, a state that is playing a central role in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and will be a key battleground in the 2004 general election.