Sentences with phrase «lost marginal seats»

Channel 4 News spoke to former MPs who lost their marginal seats in May and to candidates who lost, despite standing in seats where there had been a sitting Labour MP.

Channel 4 News spoke to former MPs who lost their marginal seats in May and to candidates who lost, despite standing in seats where there had been a sitting Labour MP.They all aspire to win back the seats Labour will need to secure if the party is to return to government.

In any analysis of the 2015 general election defeat it would follow logically that the best accounts could be given by those that fought and lost marginal seats.

Labour lost the marginal seat of Derby North last year to the Conservatives, after holding it since 1997.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

He is almost as old as I am, lost three councillors in Eastleigh the other day via defections, Eastleigh is a pretty marginal seat.

@Don: cut defence spending or Trident and lose a bunch of marginal seats — most of the $ on Trident goes to the US, so you could always announce conventional weapons programmes providing the same jobs in whichever docks would lose out.

cut defence spending or Trident and lose a bunch of marginal seats.

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...

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.

My study of the most marginal seats the Lib Dems were defending against Labour and the Conservatives, published in June, found the party on course to lose most of its most vulnerable seats, with a few notable exceptions.

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.

There will be marginal seats that Labour unexpectedly holds, and safe seats it unexpectedly loses.

But from those that were, we can see a picture that is both grim and variable - Labour losing its ultra-marginals, in with half a chance of clinging onto one or two slightly more solid marginals, in danger of losing some of its semi-marginals, and at risk of losing rock solid safe seats in long - standing Labour heartlands.

First, the background: the party of the president in office essentially always loses seats in the mid-term elections (2002 was a post-9 / 11 one - off), a tendency likely to be reinforced in 2010 by the fact that so many Democrats rode the Obama wave to win marginal districts in» 08.

The pamphlet, by the Labour - affiliated Fabian Society and Policy Network thinktank, admits Labour has lost ground among the DE bottom social group but says it will only restore its electoral fortunes if it performs better among white - collar and skilled workers, who are strongly represented in marginal seats in the South and Midlands.

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.

Every marginal seat is unique, and the reasons why one seat is won and another seat is lost will vary markedly.

But Labour lost control of Derby, where the Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Chris Williamson is an MP, and lost Nuneaton and Bedworth, classic Westminster marginal territory, for only the second time in 44 years after the Tories gained eight seats.

The term «Portillo moment» is too often used merely to describe a well - known MP losing his or her (often marginal) seat.

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.

«Internet campaigning will never replace personal interaction; knocking on doors and leafleting is still where the battles will be won and lost - particularly in marginal seats,» Smith says.

Recent polling of Liberal Democrat marginals found that while the party faces losing dozens of seats to Labour, they could hold on to a surprising number of seats against the Conservatives.

«In the very close marginal seats... you will effectively lose the election for the Labour sitting candidate and get the Tory elected,» he said.

Those guys could vote for Gay marriage without fear of losing in the future, as opposed to guys in more marginal seats like Ball or Grisanti.

I'll put up full notional results later on today, but looking at England and Wales as a whole, it looks as if the Conservatives would lose 10 seats, Labour would lose 28 seats, the Liberal Democrats would lose 4 and the Greens would lose one (by my calculations the new Brighton North would be a close three - way marginal, with the Conservatives narrowly ahead of Labour).

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.

These sorts of distortion can be caused by several factors, including tactical voting (as perhaps in Birmingham), electoral pacts (as perhaps in North East Lincolnshire), one party piling up votes in safe seats but losing out in marginals (as in Leeds), or turnout being particularly low in one party's safe seats (as in Sefton).

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

In most elections all we normally have to do is work out what is happening in the Tory - Labour marginals, adding in a glance at the handful of seats the Liberal Democrats might gain or lose.

Even northern marginal seats like Pendle, lost last year and surrounded by other marginal seats which were also lost last year like Burnley and Colne Valley, will not be allowed to select.

Despite losing the seat by just 103 votes at last year's general election and although the Tories are allegedly holding back their campaign at David Cameron's request, Nick Clegg's party trails by 17 points in two separate surveys of voters in the key marginal.

The Tories may lose fewer close marginal seats to Labour than might be expected given even a regional swing.

The analysis concludes that the party has piled up votes in parts of the country where it would make little difference in a general election, while losing support in key marginal seats.

However, it will be won or lost in the 117 marginal seats we need to win in order to gain an overall majority; and it will be won or lost on the decisions of swing voters in those constituencies.

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Policies, attention and money are focused mostly on a few marginal seats, because that's where elections are won and lost.

There were only ten marginal seats where they came second to the Conservatives in 2015, losing by less than 10 percentage points.

I agree that one Tory is likely to lose a seat in Cheshire but the inference of the study appears to be that the Tories will have a marginal seat in the Wirral (more likely a safe seat) whilst two Lib Dem seats in Stockport becomes one «Lib Dem marginal» of Stockport South.

Tory MP for Nuneaton, Marcus Jones, said Labour lost «crucial marginal seats» and that seats won at Labour's expense were a «great result.»

He lost the Dems seats in»08 when operatives from around the state had to leave marginal campaigns to help bail out his struggling campaign.

The tories should hold this, UKIP and the liberal democrats will lose out as in a marginal seat as such, people usually vote for the main competing seats.

It's the SNP / Lab gap that remains static and the swing from Conservative is now so significant that of their 13 seats they are now projected to lose 5 and by a substantial margin in the most marginal of Stirling.

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.

There are many MPs around that age in Labour inclined marginals if things get extremely bad for Labour (so starting to lose seats)

I don't expect major changes in national vote share in 2020 necessarily but we could see UKIP still around 10 - 15 %, losing votes to the Tories in marginal seats but profiting from a post referendum backlash at the Tories expense in Essex, Kent and Lincolnshire etc and old labour areas like Sunderland, county Durham, Rotherham, Oldham etc which the Tories have abandoned.

During that period of results of the early morning I even began to believe several more Labour MPs in marginal seats would even lose to the Conservatives.

In 1964, he contested the Torrington seat as the Labour candidate against the Conservative Party incumbent, losing in what was a traditional Conservative - Liberal marginal.