Sentences with phrase «of target seats»

However, there is not yet a new list of target seats for the next general election.

This was fifth on the Conservative list of target seats.

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.

«The Independent's attack on Lord Ashcroft backfires, revealing that 81 % of target seat funding comes from local activists Main Another Labour MP ducks out of defending a top Tory target»

Half a century of hard - won gains — at both local and parliamentary level — have been wiped out in five years, and by 2020 the Liberal Democrats will be up against well - entrenched Conservative incumbents in most of their target seats.

He describes a number of examples, including an inability to change key CCHQ literature once Theresa May was being shown up as being wooden and weak and rushed selections due to swathes of target seats not having candidates in place.

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

The number of target seats could rise as parties finalise their selection of candidates.

And of the target seats which would deliver a Tory majority of the Commons of around 40, all but three of the thirteen constituencies in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region are in West Yorkshire:

The Tories» shift to the right is the reason Lib Dems are maintaining support in Tory marginals, with an average of just two per cent slipping to the Tories in Lord Ashcroft's selection of target seats.

In Norwich South they are in second place on 20 %, but that was one of their target seats anyway, they are also doing well in Manchester Withington, up 8 points on 10 %.

1,500 people were interviewed in each of four clusters of target seats: the 50 most marginal Labourheld seats with the Conservatives in second place; the 50 most marginal Conservative - held seats with Labour in second place; the 25 most marginal Liberal Democrat - held seats where the Conservatives are second; and the 25 most marginal Conservative seats where the Lib Dems are second.

What could be a bad headline result for Labour in a batch of seats they only just missed out on in 2010 could be an excellent one in a batch of target seats they need for an overall majority.

Mr Corbyn said Labour had gained «a lot of seats across the whole country», despite the failure to capture many of its target seats and so - called Tory «crown jewels».

The Independent's attack on Lord Ashcroft backfires, revealing that 81 % of target seat funding comes from local activists

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

Channel 4 News has even reported that Rachel Johnson has held talks with the party about standing in one of its target seats.

Former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth of Drumlean has today given a stark assessment of the state of the Scottish Conservative Party in the wake of a general election campaign which saw the party fail to gain any of its targets seats.

Of course by - elections are wholly different from general elections, but the result for UKIP in Rochester, 271st in their list of target seats, hardly suggests that the Farage phenomenon, based largely on sentiment rather than policy, has lost momentum.

Of the target seats it is aiming to win most are located in the East and West Midlands.