Sentences with phrase «marginal seats who»

One told me of fellow candidates standing in marginal seats who had five to ten meetings a day during conference season.

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Today's Times quotes two Tories in marginal seats, who criticise Cameron for a series of «unforced errors» during the campaign and a failure to «deliver the lift in the national polls that we need».

If that wasn't enough, the last election was influenced by an individual who poured # 50,000 into marginal seats to influence the vote.

And a handful of MPs, including ministers like Norman Lamb and Jo Swinson (if she retains her marginal seat), who could emerge through the middle as the compromise candidate.

The intelligence from Populus was brought to them by the same team who run operations in the party's marginal seats.

State Sen. Mimi Walters, who is facing marginal opposition in the open - seat race for California's 45th District.

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.

Research in marginal seats by Politics Home in August 2008 and September 2009, for example, found a significant boost for the Lib Dems in the follow - up question «And thinking specifically about your own constituency and the candidates who are likely to stand there which party's candidate do you think you will vote for in your own constituency at the next general election?»

Virtually all the Conservative - held marginals are being defended by MPs who gained their seats (mainly from Labour) in 2010.

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.

Recent Labour selections for marginal Tory - held seats seem to confirm this thesis: most candidates who stood in the last election have been reselected.

Ashcroft — who gave the Conservatives # 8m while the party was in opposition and led a drive to win marginal seats — has said he decided to write the book when Cameron declined to reward him with a sufficiently senior job in government when he came to power in 2010.

[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.

In short, the Lib Dems could pick up the odd seat here and there - but to make a meaningful dent on the Conservatives, who themselves will be eyeing up dozens of marginal Labour seats, would probably require a campaign based on far more than just opposing Brexit.

If you're lucky enough to live in a marginal seat like Taunton Deane, you will be bombarded with messages from candidates, because your vote makes an enormous difference both to who becomes your MP, and the overall balance of party seats at Westminster.

With several more Labour MPs in marginal seats having announced their intention to retire at the election in recent days, below is a list of the 46 Labour and Lib Dem MPs (so far) in the most winnable seats for the Conservatives who have opted not to defend their seats at the general election.

Democrats who represent marginal districts, like David Valesky, Bill Stachowski, Brian Foley, Darrel Aubertine, and Joseph Addabbo Jr. (the primary beneficiaries of gay - rights fund - raising), have tried to put off the vote out of fear it would jeopardize their 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.They all aspire to win back the seats Labour will need to secure if the party is to return to government.

As a Labour analysis shows a fall in membership in Tory associations in the most marginal parliamentary seats, De Piero is to launch a campaign to sign up supporters who are normally disengaged from politics.

It is a three - way fight in a marginal seat caused by the ousting of the former Labour MP Phil Woolas, who was found guilty by an election court of lying about his Liberal Democrat opponent in campaign literature.

The ConservativeHome blog speculates that the Tories could win an outright majority with just 37 % of the vote because the party is expected to do better in marginal seats and its supporters tend to be older people who are more likely to vote than the younger generation «who have flocked to Nick Clegg».

Meanwhile, Ukip will be plotting to detonate more Clacton - like explosions in the marginal seats that will decide who walks up Downing Street next May.

I will also show some new analysis of my recent polling in marginal seats, which should help us understand the voters who supported us in 2010 but are currently reluctant to do so next time.

But at the same time, Faso took a more direct shot Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, two of the state's most prominent Democrats who have vocally opposed the measure and pushed Republicans in marginal House seats like Faso's to vote against it.

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.

People who live in Essex and on the Kent coast, in suburbs and small towns, in marginal seats.

Cameron is trying to appeal to floating Lib Dems in marginal seats, who do not share these traditional conservative values.

Much of the money, according to David Hencke who unearthed the figures, was spent on polling in marginal seats - undertaken by Opinion Leader Research.

In that case, it is possible that the Lib Dems will have held on to most of the Lib Dem / Tory marginals that have sitting Lib Dem MPs who are doing a good job, and will have taken many seats off of Labour in areas of relative Tory weakness.