Sentences with phrase «of the target seats which»

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:

Not exact matches

The airline last year said it would target HK$ 4 billion ($ 510 million) in cost savings as part of the turnaround, which includes more than 740 individual measures, such as adding economy class seats in its Boeing 777 jets.

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.

The district, which President Barack Obama carried twice, is a top Democratic target, and with Gibson retiring at the end of this term, and Hillary Rodham Clinton likely topping the ticket, Democrats are looking at the open seat as one of their best pickup opportunities.

The 1990s electoral tactic of announcing drastic future expenditure targets and forcing Labour to accept or reject them is designed for an electoral battleground for the swing voters in the marginal seats in contention between Labour and the Conservatives, almost all of which are in England.

Another example: the recent race for an at - large city council seat in the District of Columbia, which saw a candidate using geo - targeted Google content ads to send potential voters to his NationBuilder site.

The DCCC targeted 50 GOP - held seats, a handful of which are open.

Worse still, it finds that «more than half of those are affiliated to Unite, the giant Left - wing union which is targeting as many seats as possible to exert maximum influence over Ed Miliband.»

He argued that, in those circumstances, the SNP, which has set a target of winning 20 seats in the 6 May election, could seek to extract gains for Scotland.

Rep. Steve Pearce on Monday became the first Republican to join the race for governor of New Mexico, opening up the state's 2nd District seat, which Democrats were already planning to target in 2018.

Among those seats listed above are a number of marginal and target seats, which could potentially make all the difference between a party winning a decisive overall majority or not.

In order to win the majority, Democrats likely need to win a clear majority of a batch of 16 seats, which includes pricey plays, scenario seats, late bloomers, and slippery targets.

[10][11] He was also a target of the strategy led by Lord Ashcroft to concentrate resources on key marginal seats which saw # 50,000 donated to the Conservative campaign to unseat him.

Moving on there were some interesting bits of data about tactical voting, particularly in the first Populus poll, back in November 2004, which was conducted in 160 Conservative target seats and included some questions on tactical voting behaviour.

Kerry McCarthy's Twitter activity has been the target of online campaign KerryOut, which has utilised Twitter and YouTube in their efforts to remove her from her seat in government.

The calls, which will go into the districts of Reps. Chris Murphy (Conn.) and Steve Kagen (Wisc.) as well as open seat House races in New Jersey's 3rd and 7th district and statewide in Maine where Rep. Tom Allen is challenging Republican Sen. Susan Collins, take direct aim at planned calls by Freedom's Watch, announced last week, targeting a handful of Democratic incumbents and challengers over the rising cost of gas.

Clarke worked as director of the RoadTrip2015 and RoadTrip2020 campaigns, which involved bussing hundreds of young activists to Tory target seats across the country.

The level of sophistication behind Lord Ashcroft's «target seat operation» is revealed in an extensive article for Wired magazine, which includes the man once in charge of building up the Tories» new media campaign, Francis Maude, saying he «isn't sure» whether the technology will be ready in time for the election.

Below is a well crafted video presented by the Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie which introduces us to the party's candidates in the eleven seats north of the border where the Conservatives are targeting resources at the general election.

This work can build on the experience of the 2010 target seats campaign, which delivered a net gain of 23 Tory seats over and above what would have been achieved with a uniform national swing.

The news comes after a chaotic few days for Ukip, which saw Kerry Smith quit as a candidate in a top target seat after being forced to apologise for a series of offensive comments.

This further delay will mean that a candidate will not have been in place for most of this year in a seat which is 106th on the Conservative target list and held by Labour minister Ian Austin with a notional majority of 4,106.

During the course of election night we will keep track of the progress of our candidates in target seats (based on the notional figures for the new boundaries compiled by Profs Ralllings and Thrasher at the University of Plymouth which all the media will also be using).

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.

Here is the latest in a series of lists categorising some of those standing as candidates in seats which are either notionally Conservative or appear on paper in the top 200 target seats for the Conservatives at the next election.

Plaid also failed to gain any of its targets including Ynys Mon, where former leader Ieuan Wyn Jones was standing, as well Llanelli and Rhondda — a Welsh Assembly seat which party leader Leanne Wood took from Labour after a tough campaign in 2016.

I suspect that they will win some of the Labour seats on their target list (and I listed the top 50 in that blog post last summer), but I'm not convinced that there will be that many: their position on Iraq marked them out from the other two parties at the last election, leading them to the high water mark they reached - but Iraq will not be an issue next year and it is hard to see which message they could put out which would resonate with voters in the same way.

They stood at a podium advertising the site NYfightsback.org which lists six of the eight seats they're targeting.

In the wake of the 2010 midterms, Republicans were primed to control the redistricting process and, while the new majority was set to work amicably with Democrats in the Assembly, Dems in Missouri's House Delegation were reduced to holding three seats, any one of which was a potential target to be the seat eliminated in redistricting.

Seated leg curls will better target the inner side of the hamstrings, which includes the semitendinosus and the semimembranosus, while the biceps femoris (traditionally called the thigh biceps) which has a somewhat different function from the previous two can be emphasized with lying leg curls.

Unlike the Evoque however, it will offer a new long wheelbase variant with an additional third row of seats, which primarily targets American, Chinese and the Indian markets.

Speaking of the backseat, if you prefer captain's chairs to the standard second row of seating, you'll want to target the higher trim levels, like the LT's sub-trims — LT1, which comes with alloy wheels, steering wheel mounted audio controls, trip computer and power driver's seat, or the LT2, featuring triple zone automatic climate control, power tailgate, and stereo system from Bose, and certainly the top of the line LTZ.

According to Infiniti, the QX30 is «a new premium compact crossover targeted at a new generation of premium customers», a model which will «reignite the premium compact segment,» and will offer «the sleek lines of a coupé with the rugged looks and commanding seating position of a crossover.»

«Around 80 percent of foreign tourists come to Indonesia by airplanes which is why seat availability is a key to achieve the foreign tourists target numbers for 2017 and 2019,» said Tourism Minister Arief Yahya.

Especially if important firm clients and referral sources are seated at the firm's table, which is prominently positioned towards the front of a room filled with people from the industry / client group that you're targeting.

One of its key selling points is its embed service, which puts its PhDs in seats at campaign HQs, helping campaign staff to massage ad creative and language to best apply Cambridge's signature psychographic targeting to television and online video ads in addition to other campaign messaging.