Sentences with phrase «marginal seats over»

Huge sums of money will be spent by proponents to change marginal seats over.

Not exact matches

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

The second issue was the decision of John Howard to take over the Mersey Hospital in Latrobe, then located at the eastern end of the marginal seat of Braddon.

The sneak attack could especially blindside Republicans senators in marginal seats — who risk angering either anti-gun constituents or the pro-gun state Conservative Party, whose endorsement often helps those GOP candidates scrape over the line.

jsfl, In order to calculate the swing from 2005 in these marginal seats, we need to have the party shares that occurred in these constituencies — not the national shares.Given that Anthony is quoting a 29 % Con lead over Labour and a swing of approximately 11 % from Lab to Con since 2005, the implication is that in 2005 the Tories enjoyed a 7 % lead over Labour in these paricular seats!

There is also a buzz locally because the parliamentary seat of Hastings and Rye is now a tight marginal, which the current home secretary and potential future Tory leader Amber Rudd retained in June by just 346 votes over Labour.

[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.

The question - mark over his participation leaves many pundits pondering whether, without him, the seat might return to that three - way marginal status.

The first is the next cohort of Lib Dem - v - Conservative marginals, this group are those seats with a Lib Dem majority of between 9 % and 15 % over the Conservatives, so we are no longer looking at ultra-marginals.

Marginal polls used to only come along occasionally, varied a lot, polled different groups of seats, and didn't often happen right before elections so weren't tested against reality, meaning methods weren't finessed and improved over time in the same way national polls are.

Curiously they did not express the same view in their press release highlighting my survey of marginal seats in March, which showed a number of potential SNP gains from the Lib Dems, or when they welcomed my «super poll» at the end of last year which gave the SNP a 6 - point lead over Labour.

As in other marginal seats, a small majority of voters said they were optimistic about the economy over the next year, though slightly more so for themselves than for the country as a whole.

Looking back over other Ashcroft and ComRes polls in Con - Lab marginal seats we've had some showing the Conservatives doing slightly better in the marginals, some showing them exactly the same, some showing Labour doing slightly better.

Labour has established a «convincing» 11 - point lead over Conservatives in the key marginal seats Ed Miliband would need to win to secure victory in next year's general election, according to a new poll by ComRes for ITV News.

Over the course of the last month, the voluntary party's tour of marginal seats has clocked up campaign visits to no fewer than 72 constituencies across England, from St Ives in the South West to Tynemouth in the North East.

This would have broken the stranglehold of floating voters in Middle England marginals over the political centre of gravity, and would have rewarded Labour for mobilising support in its working - class heartland seats.

Back then, it was pretty clear that Gordon Brown, then so popular that he was an asset to Blair on walkabouts in southern marginal seats, would take over at some stage.

A third of voters in 40 marginal seats would consider voting for Ukip at the next general election but over half said they would next cast their ballot for the eurosceptic party, a new ComRes poll for ITV News suggests.

One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.

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.

The only two items that I'm not thrilled with are the front seat comfort, which is marginal in the base car that I'm leasing (the front seats are thin and not well padded) and the synthetic cloth materials used on the center console cover and armrests, which would appear easier to stain over time as opposed to vinyl.