Well Hutton is not in the Redcar constituency it is Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland which is number 21 on the Tories
target seat list (Labour majority 4.9 %).
Andy, what Chris probably means is although we gain seats initially, the ones we need to win lower down
the target seat list get a bit tougher.
Not exact matches
Yesterday, Cuomo took square aim at incumbent Republican Marcellino, who was not previously thought to be on the Democrats» top
target list, but thanks largely to the controversial candidacy of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, many more
seats are now believed to be in play.
Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his
list of 20
target seats.
David Cameron's
target list towards a majority of one required him to take at least 116
seats.
The coalition created out of the Working Families Party convention to flip the state Senate into Democratic hands is quickly putting together its
list of
seats to
target and / or protect, and apparently one of just two remaining Republican senators representing New York City is in its crosshairs.
«EMILY's
List has made this
seat a top
target and is excited about the prospect of having a strong woman candidate unseat Representative Katko in 2016.»
Fresh off the second weekend of nationwide protests against President Donald Trump, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has released its initial
list of Republican - held
seats it plans to
target in 2018.
In his interesting analysis of the Scottish political scene (TP September), Robert Waller mistakenly states that «the Conservatives were actually third in some of the highest
seats on their
target list... such as Edinburgh... South West».
Many commentators have already condemned the
list, which will be used to pick candidates in
target seats, as too politically - correct, although Conservative officials insist that local party associations will have the ultimate choice about who stands.
The
seat has been 83rd on the Tory
target list.
The night began well for Cameron with a victory at Kingswood, 135th on the Conservative
target list and regarded by many as a benchmark
seat.
Oh and I don't suppose that after talk only 1 Labour MP in Scotland (yes I know it's silly but they do it after every By Election) we could have a
list of SNP / PC
Target seats.
He has produced a table
listing 32 marginal
seats that the Tories ought to be
targeting at the next election (defined as requiring a 5 % or under swing from red or yellow to blue).
(On Monday we
listed the 27 who are no longer seeking a Westminster
seat, on Tueday we
listed the 18 who have been selected to stand in Conservative held
seats and yesterday we detailed the 27 who will be standing in
target seats.)
He has produced a table
listing 32 marginal
seats that the Tories ought to be
targeting at the next election (defined as requiring a 5 % o
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.
Worcester is 59th on their
target list, placing it halfway on the
list of
seats David Cameron needs to win if he is to gain an overall majority.
His 8.6 per cent majority in the 2005 election places him 90th in the
list of Tory
target seats.
I have restricted the
list to the Tories» top 200
target seats (the party needs to gain 117
seats to get a majority of one in Parliament) and the numbers refer to where they appear, on paper, on that
target list (based on the Rallings and Thrasher figures).
The Enfield Southgate
seat was low down on the
list of Tory
targets (number 114) but David took the
seat - once held by Michael Portillo - with the biggest swing of any victorious Conservative candidate.
It is twentieth on the Conservative
target list and is a
seat we must win if we are to win the election nationally.
The local council recently went Conservative so this
seat - number 100 on our
target list - is winnable.
While Democrats hope to net a few
seats in the state, Garamendi is among the incumbents atop the NRCC's
target list.
The DCCC expanded its
target list last week to 91 GOP - held
seats.
The expanded
target list signals that these
seats will be a higher priority for recruitment — and potential investment down the road.
First elected to Congress in 1994, LoBiondo won re-election to his
seat last year by a 22 - point margin and was not on the
list of top
targets for Democrats in 2018.
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.
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.
At the moment you're probably right that even if Con picked up every UKIP voter, it wouldn't affect the result in those most marginal
seats... but it would make a difference in
target seats further down the
list, and consequently to Labour's majority / largest party prospects.
Over the last few weeks we have published a variety of
lists, categorising a number of the next generation of Conservative MPs - the candidates fighting Tory - held or top 200
target seats at the next general election.
Carlisle has not returned a Conservative MP since the 1959 general election, but the redrawn boundaries mean that John requires a swing of 6.7 % to overturn a notional Labour majority of 5,085 (based on the Rallings and Thrasher figures)- making it the
seat that would deliver a Tory majority of 32 if it and the 131
seats above it on the Tory
target list all fell to the Conservatives.
According to this
list compiled by Lewis Baston for Progress (pdf), Cambridge (a Lib Dem
seat) is 103rd on Labour's
list of general election
targets.
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.
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.
Mr Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his
list of 20
target seats.
There are 25 contested Democratic primaries, including in each of the five districts that appear on national Democrats»
target list of 98 GOP - held
seats.
Are you seriously going to argue that you have been worse treated than suitably qualified white male candidates who have been denied the opportunity to apply for
target seats, by being excluded from the A
List?
Those 10 all appear on a
list of 59
targeted seats released last month by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Combine a wider
target list with the large number of Republican incumbents already heading into retirement (26 and counting) as well as the massive cash edge the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has over its GOP counterpart and a double - digit
seat gain for Democrats starts to seem like a real possibility.
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.
And it's long been high on the Conservatives
target list requiring little more than a 3.5 per cent swing to overturn Kramer's 3,700
seat majority.
«The establishment of a priority
list of candidates for
target seats, with specific emphasis on getting more women and people from ethnic minorities into winnable positions.
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list of exercises that
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The most important thing I can do is continue my well -
targeted, low cost / high yield advertising, build a mailing
list (yeah, that cool box that popped up and asked for your e-mail address gets you a front row
seat to all the wonders I have in store for the reading public), and of course...
The firm even
lists an India case study for 2010 where its «client achieved a landslide victory, with over 90 % of total
seats targeted by CA being won.»