Sentences with phrase «targeted seats by»

President Donald Trump won these newly targeted seats by anywhere from 6 to 49 points.

[21] According to the newspaper Lohud, «it has been a target of Republicans in expensive campaign battles in recent years and is expected to once again be viewed as a target seat by the state GOP.»

Not exact matches

The researchers looked at 380 board seats spread across 93 companies in the Standard & Poor's 1500 Index targeted by activists between 2011 and 2015.

Liverpool today announced plans to redevelop Anfield into a 54,000 - seat stadium with work targeted to come to an end by mid 2016.

Dropping back into the bottom seat of English Premier League standings, Crystal Palace are keen on re-starting their survival mission by targeting all three points against Stoke City this weekend.

Little boys who are learning to stand while «doing their business» seem to miss the target by a wide margin, hitting the seat, floor... and wall.

Seats would be won by convincing voters across the constituency, not just targeting action at a few swing voters.

The Kaminsky victory in the 9th Senate district also narrows the November battleground map heading into the fall elections, making other suburban seats, like the one held by Latimer, potential targets.

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.

Ukip will attempt to secure the balance of power in British national politics in the 2015 general election by targeting around 30 seats, Nigel Farage has said.

For Democrats, the seats they will target will include those districts held by Sens. Elaine Phillips, Carl Marcellino and Kemp Hannon.

In an op / ed submitted to Capital Tonight's State of Politics, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan insisted Republicans will hold control of the chamber and even grow its narrow majority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic Conference.

The Conservatives succeeded tactically and mostly at the expense of their coalition partner, the Lib Dems, by gaining 26 of their seats and 10 of Labour's, destroying Labour's ambitions to target 80 Conservative - held seats.

But perhaps the most natural target — the 26th District, won by Kathy Hochul in a special election last month — might draw objections from both parties: from Democrats because they think she's a rising star after her upset victory, and from Republicans because they expect to have a reasonable chance of reclaiming the seat anyway.

The party's keen, rightly, to highlight that its fortunes are faring better in our target seats than in the country as a whole, as the successful defence in the Eastleigh by - election demonstrated.

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.

Canvassers plan to speak to New Yorkers in targeted state Senate and Assembly districts in Saratoga, Troy, Syracuse, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, New York City and Long Island (several of those areas — especially western New York and Dutchess County — are considered by Democrats as ripe for picking up at least one or two seats next year).

The main loser of the evening was David Cameron, whose authority with his already rebellious backbenchers will be further dented by a poor performance in one of his party's key target seats.

Katko's seat has been targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a significant race this fall in a broader effort to regain majority control of the House of Representatives.

Latimer, however, has an eight - to - one cash - on - hand advantage, and it seems unlikely that a seat that has been repeatedly targeted by Republicans over three decades would finally flip in a presidential year.

Reading this very personal account one concludes that without all the targeted campaigning, publicity and positive work done by Gavin Barwell, Labour might have taken the seat with a majority of 2 - 3,000.

In Western New York, Republicans have previously targeted the seat held by Democrat Marc Panepinto, who prevailed in a four - way race in 2014 to win the seat.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Friday its latest round of candidates in «Red to Blue,» a program that targets open - seat races and districts held by Republicans.

Vulnerable Tory and Liberal Democrat seats will be targeted by GPs at the next election in a bid to punish those who helped the NHS reforms on to the statute book.

But it was not regarded as a target seat for resources by CCHQ, and he only received help a few months before the election.

Funding targeting key marginal seats is being provided by one of the Conservatives» shadiest sources of cash, as the debate about party funding continues.

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.

His team of election strategists, led by Stephen Gilbert (see No 26), have funneled money into the 150 or so target seats and now reside in Conservative Campaign Headquarters itself.

But the Democrats will need to spread their dollars far and wide to defend their seats — of the 60 districts targeted for advertising by the DCCC, 54 are held by Democrats.

He said he had spoken to half the Labour 80 candidates standing in Tory seats targeted by the party and other MPs before making his announcement.

The suburban seat was targeted by New York City Democrats including Mayor Bill de Blasio, who funneled over $ 500,000 to Murphy's opponent through the use of straw donor committees using a loophole in New York State campaign finance law.

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.

The Nassau County seat now held by Republican Sen. Jack Martins has a Democratic enrollment advantage and has been a top target for Democrats since Martins beat the Democratic incumbent, Craig Johnson, by less than 500 votes in 2010.

The DCCC's initial targets were obvious, beginning with the 26 Republicans who won seats in the 2014 midterms in districts previously carried by President Barack Obama.

The average majority is 5,741 votes, though it is worth noting that a) that is dragged up by majorities of more than 10,000 in three of the seats and b) as discussed previously, target seats are being selected on more complex analysis than simple majority size.

In all, a small swing to Labour (of 2 %, or less) from other parties could see further seat gains fall into the party's hands in a number constituencies (highlighted by the yellow shaded constituencies on the map), with a particular cluster of these target constituencies being located in the Munster region.

[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.

Comstock, already a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee target for 2016, won the open seat to replace GOP Rep. Frank R. Wolf, her former boss, by 16 points in 2014.

In Lib Dem target seats Labour voters were far more likely to vote tactically against the Conservatives than against the Liberals by a margin of about 4 - 1.

A representative survey for CND, seen by the NS, shows that Labour's parliamentary candidates - from traditionally safe seats to unwinnable Conservative strongholds through to some of the most vulnerable of Labour's target seats - are overwhelmingly against maintaining the nuclear deterrent when it comes up for renewal.

At the DGA's meeting in New Orleans last month, political director Corey Platt gave governors a presentation indicating that the organization is now targeting 17 GOP - held seats for pickup in 2018, according to slides from the presentation obtained by POLITICO.

Asked about J4MB's plans to target Tory seats in the next election, Davis said: «I don't think any of my colleagues will ever feel threatened by the political party concerned.»

A separate poll by Populus for the Times newspaper focusing on Conservative target seats from numbers 50 to 149 placed the two parties neck and neck, on 38 % apiece.

A near replica of the mailer also popped up in the 40th SD race, targeting Republican Yorktown Councilman Terrence Murphy, who is running against Democrat Justin Wagner for the seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Greg Ball.

It also has led to suggestions that those who do rebel against the party line may be targeted in their seats by pro-Corbyn activists...

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.

In Scotland, Labour gained one seat from the SNP — Edinburgh Southern — but failed to take other targets and was beaten into third place by the Conservatives — a result that would have been unthinkable in the past.

The poll revealed that in 32 of Labour's target seats, the Tories trailed by 14 %, a much larger lead than national polls suggest.

The Tottenham MP could have also mentioned that election campaigning across Labour's 12 target seats in the city was being overseen by a certain... Sadiq Khan!

In the Conservative held target seats that Labour needed to gain there was a swing towards the Conservatives (presumably because most of these seats were being contested by first time Conservative incumbents).