Sentences with phrase «on marginal seats»

He has given some # 5m to the Tories, targeted on marginal seats, and he once boasted that he might be the biggest party donor of all time.

This is may be down in part to the Conservatives» continued «ground war» focus on marginal seats.

So a relatively large and professional central and regional campaign team ensures direct mail, leaflets, staff and so on is all targeted on the marginal seats.

Harman still pops up from time to time in her pink bus, dropping in on marginal seats to talk to women voters.

Most of my constituency research is focused on marginal seats.

Not exact matches

Draft federal electoral boundaries for Queensland will be released on Friday, and several marginal seat holders will be waiting to learn their fate.

Councillors that won marginal seats on a tide of national popularity for their party are most likely to lose them when the tide ebbs.

He managed to squeeze in three separate visits, stopping for Welsh cakes and tea at the Dyffryn Gardens in the marginal seat of Vale of Glamorgan, then moving on to Brains Brewery in Cardiff, before finally taking a detour to Barry Island (and a quick vanilla ice cream and selfies with holidaying families).

Corbyn plans to visit at least 40 marginal seats during the parliamentary recess that begins on Friday, enough to put him in Downing Street if Labour won them all.

Perhaps I did it because I was in a very marginal seat and felt that the interaction with people on social media was important.

They were elected in marginal seats on a centre ground chosen by Cameron in 2010.

They're broadly loyal, but are prepared to rebel on occasion to help them in marginal seats.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

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.

@Don: cut defence spending or Trident and lose a bunch of marginal seats — most of the $ on Trident goes to the US, so you could always announce conventional weapons programmes providing the same jobs in whichever docks would lose out.

Well done, Sunder, for not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...

«We thought we might hold seven to 10 seats in Scotland, we had no intelligence on the Tory - Lib Dem marginals and throughout the day we had good reports in the English marginals.

Pendulum - find the electorates on the electoral pendulum, with seats listed from the most marginal to the safest.

The electoral pendulum orders seats from the most marginal to safest based on results of the last election.

My study of the most marginal seats the Lib Dems were defending against Labour and the Conservatives, published in June, found the party on course to lose most of its most vulnerable seats, with a few notable exceptions.

On 12 October 2007 he was accused by Labour MPs of being allowed to heavily fund local Conservative organisations in marginal seats of his choosing.

The majority owner of ConservativeHome, former Tory Treasurer and mastermind of the party's marginal seats campaign will use a review of the general election campaign to criticise the party leadership's decision to agree to election debates and to campaign on the big society theme.

And he has realised that it is one thing to talk about the revival of our northern cities but quite another to tell a Tory MP with a marginal seat they can't have their dual carriageway because you're focused on Merseyside or Teesside.

The Lord Ashcroft marginal seats poll, published on the Saturday after the results, and predicting Labour gains of 80 seats, claimed frayed nerves.

Party volunteers up and down the country (and especially in marginal seats) are pounding the streets campaigning on their party's behalf.

He began to become interested in political polling in the autumn of 2004 at a time when he was already working to help Conservative candidates win — and hold on to — some of the most marginal seats up and down the country.

The Business Council of Australia, the lobby group representing the nation's largest companies, is now spending big on political campaigning and is targeting marginal seats.

In August 2011 I conducted a poll of 41 marginal Conservative - held seats to find out whether the static national polls were hiding a more nuanced picture on this crucial battleground.

The leadership's strategy is to register and canvas more voters in target seats, banking on increased turnout to flip new marginals that were long thought to be beyond Corbyn's reach.

Firstly, in Conservative - vs - Labour marginals the Conservative vote is largely unchanged from the general election, but the Liberal Democrat vote has dropped to the benefit of Labour, this means on a uniform swing Labour would gain about 28 seats from the Conservatives (though these would be seats that the Conservatives gained at the last election, so in practice the Tories would be helped by the incumbency bonus of the new MPs).

Respondents were asked to rate «a pact with UKIP that avoids the two parties standing against each other in marginal seats» on a scale of -5 to +5 (where +5 equalled a «very positive impact» and -5 equalled a «very bad impact».)

Key marginal seats, UK big names, Tory and Labour target constituencies - they're all here in our summary of the most exciting ones to watch on election night 2017

Both the main parties could count on winning hundreds of safe seats each and the electoral battle would be won or lost in a smaller number of key marginal seats.

For the 2015 election, the party would focus single - mindedly on holding 40 marginal seats and winning another 40.

He has then created an urbanity index by overlaying 2001 Census data on population density — a proxy measure for urbanity — onto these marginal seats.

The ALP's re-election chances hinge on the results in a number of marginal seats across Australia.

This seems to be on the back of opinion polls which may not have changed if you allow for their inbuilt margin of error and which certainly ignore the fact that Northern marginal seats are running ahead of the national figures.

But in 2014, as a failed parliamentary candidate desperate to get back into the party's good graces, he launched a grassroots volunteer scheme that sent party members into marginal seats to distribute leaflets, knock on doors, and work the voters.

His strategy, of focusing relentlessly on Brexit, demanding a referendum on the final exit deal, had been expected to play well in pro-EU marginal seats across a swath of Britain.

«A recent survey by the Countryside Alliance, a pressure group, found that of 120 Tory candidates in marginal seats only one was against repealing the ban and he said that he would abstain on any vote.»

[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.

The Labour parliamentary candidate for a key marginal seat was arrested after crashing into a roundabout on Monday.

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.

Prior to setting up his own communications business, he was on the Conservative Party's professional staff working for Ministers and high - profile back bench MPs, where he masterminded and devised a number of community campaigns which saw the Conservative Party holding to a number of highly marginal seats.

He won back the marginal seat in the 2017 general election after standing on proudly pro-Corbyn platform.

I had undertaken an analysis of the potential impact of the issue on key marginal seats and sent the findings to the Chairman of the Tory Party.

The way our elections work encourages parties to ignore the views of the majority of the British public to focus on the handful of swing voters in marginal seats.

The ousting of top Lib Dem Alexander in this seat looks to be a realistic prospect - a Lord Ashcroft marginal poll in February found the SNP on 50 % with the Lib Dems on 21 %.

«Internet campaigning will never replace personal interaction; knocking on doors and leafleting is still where the battles will be won and lost - particularly in marginal seats,» Smith says.

Recent polling of Liberal Democrat marginals found that while the party faces losing dozens of seats to Labour, they could hold on to a surprising number of seats against the Conservatives.