Sentences with phrase «target seats which»

But already set to take their place are 10 women amongst the candidates in notionally Conservative - held seats and 31 in the top 116 target seats which, on paper, would deliver a Conservative Commons majority.

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.

He has a new book about Republican efforts in the 2010 election to target state legislative seats and thereby gain a huge advantage in congressional redistricting, which he says made a big difference in Republican representation in Congress.

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.

Had it been only the local elections which disappointed, the party might have shrugged it off as the usual mixed bag: painful losses offset by successful defences in held and target seats.

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.

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.

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.

And, she doesn't duck the big question: yes, he obviously wants to be PM, but she has caught the current gossip about which seat he is targeting for his return.

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.»

The DUP, which is targeting 10 seats this time, is pragmatic about its partnerships and famous for driving hard bargains: it propped John Major up against Conservative rebels in the 1990s but also saved Labour from defeat over anti-terrorism legislation two years ago.

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.

There are nine target seats in West Yorkshire, which makes the area crucial in the next general election.

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.

Delegates in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to back a motion put by the Lib Dem leadership for extra funds to support ethnic minority and female candidates, and to consider diversity when deciding which seats to target in an election.

Over the next hour I'm particularly looking out for Nuneaton, a Conservative seat which Labour was targeting - and the first Scottish seat, the Western Isles.

And where we did achieve swings against the Tories, these were in safe Labour seats, rather than in the target marginals, in which we worked so hard.»

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.

On 14 February the organisation committee will decide which target seats will be open and which will choose from all - women shortlists in all regions except Scotland, Yorkshire and the East Midlands, which are deferred to 12 March to allow more time to talk to local parties.

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.

He said the party would reach «double figures» in the next general election though a targeted approach, rather than the «scatter - gun» technique which saw them take four million votes but just one seat in the Commons last May.

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.

Bishop has held the seat since 2002, but the swing district - which voted for George W. Bush in 2004 - has always tilted conservative, and it made the Democratic incumbent a prime target this cycle.

It is striking that in a seat like Thurrock, which is the number one Labour target, they've gone backwards.

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.

They will vigorously defend their own 40 most marginal seats, and target a further 40 which they narrowly failed to take in 2010.

In London, the Tories gained seats in Hillingdon - which some had touted as a potential Labour target - and won nine more seats in Sutton, despite the area remaining in Lib Dem control.

Here is the full result from the key marginal seat which both parties will target at the 2015 general election.

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.

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 %).

Labour have some very vulnerable seats in wards like Rayners Lane, Harrow on the Hill and Kenton West which the Tories will be targeting.

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.

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The first part is doing close grip reverse pulldowns done on a Hammer Strength machine, which is intended to target the lats and the upper back, the seconds part is doing overhand grip bent over barbell rows, intended to put on mass and the third part is doing seated cable rows, intended to add thickness to the teres major and the rhomboid muscles.