Sentences with phrase «target seats such»

While Labour managed to take control of Plymouth, the party failed to build a stronger hold in London, missing out on target seats such as Barnet, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon and Kensington.

Despite Mr Carswell's re-election, Mr Farage's party failed to live up to expectations in target seats such as Thurrock, Middleton and Heywood, and Castle Point.

Labour lost Gower and the Vale of Clwyd to the Conservatives, and failed to take target seats such as Cardiff North and the Vale of Glamorgan.

But they failed to gain other target seats such as Bolton North East, where a meagre 1.3 swing made little dent on Labour's majority.

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.

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».

The first results of the night had produced Labour wins in Sunderland but outside of its strongholds in the north, it failed to take vital seats such as the number one target of Warwickshire North, where the Conservatives increased their share of the vote.

Although the collapse at the hands of the SNP in Scotland was widely expected, the party failed to win some of its key target seats in England and also endured defeats for key figures such as shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

The encouraging news for the Tories, such as it is, is that Labour have made no further progress in their top targets seats than they had when I conducted a similar exercise in 2011.

These 83 districts are the remaining GOP - held seats the DCCC is targeting, plus several competitive open seats currently held by Democrats, such as New Hampshire's 1st District and Minnesota's 1st District.

But that doesn't seem to have happened and a whole range of key target seats — such as Chester, Halifax and Darlington — that the Conservatives hoped to gain have stayed Labour red as a result.

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.

The Eee Tablet is targeted at students but with such a hefty price tag we don't think it we'll be seeing one in every seat.