Sentences with phrase «marginal seats such»

Jack Straw is expected to win again in Blackburn, but marginal seats such as Chorley and Wirral South may fall.

Interestingly, the poster was deployed in Conservative - Liberal Democrat English marginal seats such as Colchester in the 2015 election.

Thus anyone wavering will think, «It's worth voting for UKIP, they can win this time» whereas with FTTP as used for Westminster they will be lucky to hold Castle Point and in a marginal seat such as Reading West if I want to unseat Labour MP Martin Salter I will have to vote Tory as the UKIP candidate will be very lucky to make 4 figures.

Not exact matches

How can the Conservatives ever secure London marginals that have become Labour safe seats overnight, such as Tooting and Ealing Central and Acton?

Boundaries have changed in many seats since 2005, and the strength of the Lib Dems means some two - way marginals now look more like three - way marginals: add in the rise of smaller parties such as the Greens, plus highly volatile national polls, and even hardened tactical voters may struggle to work out which horse to back locally this time.

Though the Conservative Party tried its best to take some of the more marginal seats between it and Labour, such as Bridgend and Newport West, Labour successfully defended all of its 25 seats and took a further three (Gower, Cardiff North, and Vale of Clwyd) from the Conservatives.

Such a result in these Labour / Conservative marginals would leave the Tories short of winning the 117 seats they need to take from the governing party in order to have an overall majority.

David Cameron said the party's second place in Scotland and its showing in England, where it took control of Peterborough Council and won council seats in key Westminster marginals such as Dudley and Nuneaton, represented a good result for a party in government for six years.

Isn't such a seat likely to stop being a marginal and actually become a safe seat?

With such a massive fundraising edge, the DCCC is smartly moving to expand their target list into a series of Republican - leaning open seats and GOP incumbents representing marginal districts.

It's certainly true, as I observed earlier, that BME voters are concentrated in such seats but there are significant — and increasing — BME communities in many marginal seats (including one very important south London marginal!)

Both forerunner seats were last represented by Labour MPs, with Ince having been served by only four such members since 1906, however with Ormskirk having a mixed and longer history as a more marginal seat.

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

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.

The Institute doesn't test seats with head restraints that are rated marginal or poor for geometry because such seats can not be positioned to protect many taller people.