Sentences with phrase «many target seats»

The party slipped to third place in Eastleigh, one of its top ten target seats for the general election, behind Ukip and the Liberal Democrats.

The 1993 Labour Party Conference introduced the rule for «women - only shortlists» in 50 % of all target seats.

«In the target seats we did a couple of things.

Its 12 London target seats are Battersea, Bermondsey & Old Southwark, Brent Central, Brentford & Isleworth, Croydon Central, Ealing Central & Acton, Enfield North, Finchley & Golders Green, Harrow East, Hendon, Hornsey & Wood Green and Ilford North.

«I moved to the area right away and started campaigning as if it were a target seat.

But he remains shadow London minister and it is in this capacity that Khan is taking a central role in campaigning across Labour's 12 target seats in the city.

«My strategy in West Worcestershire was always to fight it as if it was a target seat for the Conservatives,» she says.

A dozen of the Tory target seats were in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset.

It was difficult for both parties to fight against the «fear factor» whipped up by the press and the huge amount of direct mail which the Conservatives poured into target seats, but there were also significant self - inflicted wounds.

«We will pick over the course of this summer our target seats and we'll throw the kitchen sink at them,» he said.

Even if Ukip wins very few seats, it could split the Tory vote and prevent the party securing its own target seats.

In an op / ed submitted to Capital Tonight's State of Politics, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan insisted Republicans will hold control of the chamber and even grow its narrow majority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic Conference.

Boris was a great Mayor but during last year's general election there was no obvious plan to try and hold or win target seats in the Capital.

Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

Taking all these factors together - regional variations, over-statement of the Labour vote and more vigorous campaigning in target seats - and we would expect a modest Conservative majority of 30 to 50.

6) Candidate selections - the next three months are key to putting in place Labour candidates for the top 75 target seats at the next general election.

It's why his leader Jeremy Corbyn is going to be out and about all summer visiting target seats.

The Labour party has already selected candidates in dozens of target seats in preparation for a possible early election.

The book also gives an account of my involvement in the party's target seats campaign, and my view of David Cameron's decision to form a coalition government.

The two main parties look to be in a strong position to defend what they won in 2010 but seem less well placed to launch attacks on their target seats — hence the likelihood of a stalemate.

For the Conservatives, a majority will remain out of reach if they fail to win target seats in places like Bolton West and Wirral South.

From December 2005 to September 2010, Lord Ashcroft was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for the target seats campaign and opinion research.

Labour figures like Straw, Muir and Douglas Alexander — and Gisela Stuart, who held the Tory's target seat Birmingham Edgbaston for Labour — all believe that without them Cameron would have had an absolute majority.

Indeed, it takes a stretch of the imagination to visualise Corbyn winning some of Labour's target seats but this has caused surprisingly few problems so far.

Tony Blair's donation of # 106,000 to Labour this week — divided between candidates in the party's 106 designated target seats — doesn't make him the party largest individual donor (there were seven individuals who gave more in 2014) but he is certainly the most controversial.

The respondents hail from across the winnability spectrum; from safe Labour seats to Tory strongholds, via vulnerable target seats.

The party's keen, rightly, to highlight that its fortunes are faring better in our target seats than in the country as a whole, as the successful defence in the Eastleigh by - election demonstrated.

Had it been only the local elections which disappointed, the party might have shrugged it off as the usual mixed bag: painful losses offset by successful defences in held and target seats.

The party is asking the following rather pertinent question: «If the Conservatives can't beat us in the 11th top target seat under these circumstances, when can they beat us?»

Many commentators have already condemned the list, which will be used to pick candidates in target seats, as too politically - correct, although Conservative officials insist that local party associations will have the ultimate choice about who stands.

The main loser of the evening was David Cameron, whose authority with his already rebellious backbenchers will be further dented by a poor performance in one of his party's key target seats.

Drawing on his unique perspective as the man responsible for the party's target seats and polling, the 133 - page book gives Lord Ashcroft's view of the Conservatives» progress since their third defeat in 2005, the reasons for the party's failure to win an overall majority in 2010, and David Cameron's decision to form a coalition with -LSB-...]

Yet if it is to convert these silver medals into seats, it has to work out why its target seat campaigns this year were a total failure.

Taking their lead from some of the best US campaigns, parties have been making extensive use of polling, local intelligence from voters, and additional useful information like consumer data, to produce microtargeted campaigns to raise turnout amongst specific groups in target seats.

Labour candidate Michael McMahon is the incumbent in the Uddingston and Bellshill constituency, although he had only a slim majority of 2.8 % in 2011, making this a key target seat for the SNP.

These are (presumably) aimed at a number of Conservative target seats around the country.

Drawing on his unique perspective as the man responsible for the party's target seats and polling, the 133 - page book gives Lord Ashcroft's view of the Conservatives» progress since their third defeat in 2005, the reasons for the party's failure to win an overall majority in 2010, and David Cameron's decision to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

The parties have been developing sophisticated target seats campaigns to allocate resources accordingly.

President Donald Trump won these newly targeted seats by anywhere from 6 to 49 points.

We still have resources concentrated in too many safe seats while target seats struggle.

Between December 2005 and September 2010, I was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, with special responsibility for the target seats campaign and opinion research.

In Western New York, Republicans have previously targeted the seat held by Democrat Marc Panepinto, who prevailed in a four - way race in 2014 to win the seat.

Another top target seat is Enfield Southgate, where Tory MP David Burrowes has a 4,700 majority.

And you can take it as read that Labour is falling well, well behind in the Tory - held target seats it will one day need to win to form a government.

The leadership's strategy is to register and canvas more voters in target seats, banking on increased turnout to flip new marginals that were long thought to be beyond Corbyn's reach.

Thanks to the tracker surveys — daily in many target seats, Crosby had a sophisticated picture that was denied to other parties or even major pollsters.

Far from there being the long - predicted «swing back» to the Tories as the election nears, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggest that Labour have actually cemented their position in many of the target seats they need to win.

But it was not regarded as a target seat for resources by CCHQ, and he only received help a few months before the election.

Again, if the Conservatives were only a little way short (and the recent surge to the Lib Dems may so decimate Labour that the Tories do better in target seats than expected), they could try to mimic the final years of John Major's government, when the Conservative PM was forced to rely on the votes of Ulster Unionists.

Party leader Paul Nuttall came third in his target seat of Boston and Skegness, and several candidates lost their deposits.