Sentences with phrase «key marginals»

Both the main parties could count on winning hundreds of safe seats each and the electoral battle would be won or lost in a smaller number of key marginal seats.

How many they lose will depend on how their existing MPs hold on to votes in key marginal constituencies.

And which ones are the most key marginal seats?

Tonight a new poll in those same 60 key marginal seats reveals a dramatically different outlook.

The party needs to win over floating voters in a number of key marginal seats in towns and cities in the North and the Midlands.

It is not possible to form a Labour government by winning key marginal seats where aspirational voters predominate unless core voters turn out,» he writes.

Gordon Brown's «bailout bounce» is still unlikely to translate into victory in the next general election, according to an exclusive Channel 4 News / YouGov poll of key marginal constituencies released today.

[10][11] He was also a target of the strategy led by Lord Ashcroft to concentrate resources on key marginal seats which saw # 50,000 donated to the Conservative campaign to unseat him.

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

Perfectly logical then that Conservatives should target key marginal seats in Birmingham, birthplace of Nick Timothy, one of the two brains that make up Team May.

During the 2015 campaign, our Hot seats series saw Conversation authors report from key marginal seats around the UK.

«We held our own or advanced in key marginal councils with Tory MPs, including: Worcester, Redditch, Derby, Ipswich, Norwich, Harlow, Crawley, Southampton and Hastings.

The new battleground seats include some unfamiliar names, such as Kensington in London, as key marginals.

This idea had some merit: Labour had failed to win key marginals across England and Wales, came under serious electoral pressure from UKIP in the north of England, and was all but wiped out in Scotland.

The Tories adopted a policy of defending key marginal seats against Labour and UKIP and attacking in Liberal Democrat seats.

Practically speaking, I would encourage people residing in safe Democratic districts to consider adopting a couple of key marginal Democratic districts to help organize within.

They include key marginals like Hendon, where the Conservative MP Matthew Offord has a majority of just 106.

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 M1 runs through the middle of the region, linking several key marginal seats.

The Conservatives strengthened their dominance in the South East while holding UKIP at bay in key marginals in the region.

Our research was based on the 60 key marginal constituencies the Tories have to win to form the next government.

The concentration on key marginal seats over the last decade has polarised the Victorian political landscape.

It is not possible to form a Labour government by winning key marginal seats where aspirational voters predominate unless core voters turn out.

Funding targeting key marginal seats is being provided by one of the Conservatives» shadiest sources of cash, as the debate about party funding continues.

e held our own or advanced in key marginal councils with Tory MPs, including: Worcester, Redditch, Derby, Ipswich, Norwich, Harlow, Crawley, Southampton and Hastings.

Recent polling of key marginal seats by Lord Ashcroft found that Cameron's party can afford to lose no more than 21 seats to Labour in order to remain the largest party in parliament.

«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.

Labour ministers have been accused of using regional Cabinet meetings to help the party in key marginal seats.

Labour have high hopes for Tory scalp in this this key marginal.

In particular, it has helped the Conservatives to contain the salience of European policy in the 2015 general elections and to reduce the appeal of UKIP in key marginal seats.

They built apps, organised car pools and slept on sofas to ensure that key marginals were flooded with volunteers.

In the key marginal of Thanet South in Kent, the Conservative party are set to lose the seat to Labour with Ukip coming a close second, according to the first of eight new constituency polls.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

Although gaining 22 seats, Labour lost all but one of its MPs in Scotland and ended up with a net loss of 26 seats, failing to win a number of key marginal seats that it had expected to win comfortably.

Their most alarming discovery was that Labour were underperforming in key marginal seats.

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

After yesterday's Channel 4 News poll showing plummeting Conservative support in key marginal seats, leading Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle emails colleagues to describe his «despair» at his party's election campaign.

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After last night's Channel 4 News poll showing plummeting Tory support in key marginal seats, he sent out an email entitled «Musings of a Tory in despair».

The strategy has been to win support in key marginals, using tactics such as tailing opinion - formers such as the corporate press and relying heavily on focus groups and polls.

Initially, he concentrated his research in these key marginal seats but then, as his fascination with polling grew, he decided to conduct a vast poll of 10,000 voters (the usual size is 1,500 people) in order to produce the biggest ever poll in the UK on political attitudes.

Lord Ashcroft's mega poll of key marginals, released yesterday, has been interpreted as showing three things:

«At the last election, ordinary activists had tens of thousands of face to face conversations that undermined the power of the right wing press and convinced people in key marginal to vote Labour.

The rally is seen as the starting point of a campaign that will see Labour facing hostility in large sections of the national media and heavily outspent by the Conservatives, and so highly reliant on its superior organisation on the ground to bring out its vote in key marginals.

The Tory vote went up four points in the key marginals it was defending from Labour and in the marginals it was looking to win from the Liberal Democrats.

But the idea that UKIP is the reason the Tories are behind in these key marginals is just not true — or at best it's a quarter of the truth.

If Nigel Farage wins 2,000 to 3,000 unhappy Tories in each of the key marginals, he has written, the party could lose thirty seats and install Ed Miliband in Number 10 Downing Street.

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?

Take Thanet South, a key marginal where Nigel Farage has been tipped to stand.