Sentences with phrase «targeted their seats last»

This, then, could prove to be an unusually vengeful election, particularly between Lib Dems and the Conservatives who so spectacularly targeted their seats last time around.

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.

48 ′ 0 — 2 Cristiano Ronaldo was on target again just after the half time to put the game to bed and put Real Madrid in driving seat going into the last week of the season.

With Juventus looking in the front seat for both players, and every other striker who has ever scored a goal it would seem (after missing out on last Summer's transfer targets and ending up with Bendtner can you blame them), Arsenal are under pressure to make a move quickly to stop missing out on the players they desire and leaving it up to another season of deadline day madness.

Boris was a great Mayor but during last year's general election there was no obvious plan to try and hold or win target seats in the Capital.

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 first round of 59 targets, announced in January, included the 23 GOP - held seats that Hillary Clinton carried last fall.

Heavy on rhetoric but light on specifics, the statement from the party called for «targeted political action» to ensure the 124 MPs who voted against Lords reform last night do not keep their seats in the next election.

The polls of Conservative - held Ukip targets found the party failing to make breakthroughs even in seats where they won their best results in last year's European elections.

> I recently highlighted the large number of Labour and Lib Dem MPs in Tory target seats not contesting their seats at the general election and in the last couple of weeks there have been further Labour departures announced here and here.

It was hugely impressive that he came within 2,500 votes of winning the seat last May, with few local members on the ground and none of the benefits that were afforded to target seats.

It is difficult to prove that the battlebus campaign was the factor that swung the last election in the Conservatives» favour, although it was specifically targeting marginal and swing seats, and clearly the Tories saw it as a key campaigning tool.

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.

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.

The paper reports that Labour is intending to try and highlight divisions with Conservative Party over climate change in the top Tory target seats where the Green Party won more than 2 % of the vote at the last election - in the hope of stopping Green supporters from switching to back the Conservatives and helping to deliver a Tory majority in the Commons.

The DCCC expanded its target list last week to 91 GOP - held seats.

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 poll covered some seats that UKIP announced as targets last year but taking out some that no longer seem realistic, like Aylesbury, and adding some obvious ommissions like Castle Point.

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.

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.

As was the case last year, UKIP are doing fantastically well at coming second in many places and that doesn't build the council base they need to build support in target seats for the general election.

The assemblywoman arrived in the chamber last year to fill the seat vacated by the resignation of Democrat Dennis Gabryszak in January 2014 following the revelation that he was the target of sexual harassment allegations from a half - dozen female staffers in his office.

Last year he admitted that many ethnic minority voters in his target seat of Dudley North, held by a Labour majority of just 649, think that the Tories «remain a racist party».

[4] The Conservatives were strongly favoured to remain in control and were particularly targeting the last Labour held seat in Burscough.

Those 10 all appear on a list of 59 targeted seats released last month by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Tiffany Trenner - Lyle is 19 years old and has been interning on the Conservative campaign in the key target seat of Hampstead and Kilburn since last October.

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.

Those reasons were obvious in last month's local elections when (1) we made decent progress in councils that overlapped target seats - including in the north west; (2) Labour was completely ousted from large sections of the country - particularly in the south east; and (3) Conservatives made solid net gains from the LibDems.