Sentences with phrase «targeting seats held»

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.

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.

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Latimer, a former assemblyman, has been a top target of the Senate Republicans in the past, but has managed to hold onto the seat that he has held since 2012.

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.

In all, the DCCC has targeted 79 Republican - held seats.

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

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.

To get an idea of how disastrous this election has been for the Conservatives, look at what has happened in the Labour held seats that the Tories were targeting yesterday but didn't win:

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.

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.

Labour figures like Straw, Muir and Douglas Alexander — and Gisela Stuart, who held the Tory's target seat Birmingham Edgbaston for Labour — all believe that without them Cameron would have had an absolute majority.

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.

In a state where Democrats are targeting four Republican - held seats in November and need viable candidates to make it through Tuesday's primaries, the nominating contest in Illinois that's receiving the most attention is in a safe Democratic district.

The DCCC targeted 50 GOP - held seats, a handful of which are open.

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

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.

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.

And you can take it as read that Labour is falling well, well behind in the Tory - held target seats it will one day need to win to form a government.

Our most recent survey reached 141 candidates in the 250 top Tory - held and target seats.

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.

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.

(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.)

More significantly, Saturday's adoption of another man - Hexham choosing Guy Opperman - follows a succession of other male adoptions in Tory - held or top target seats: Fylde choosing Mark Menzies, Nuneaton adopting Marcus Jones, Bournemouth West adopting Conor Burns, Perth and North Perthshire adopting Peter Lyburn, Halesowen and Rowley Regis adopting James Morris, Rochester and Strood re-adopting Mark Reckless, Westmorland & Lonsdale adopting Gareth McKeever.

ConservativeHome's own survey of the 200 Tory candidates in already held and target seats produced the following results:

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.

Channel 4 News has even reported that Rachel Johnson has held talks with the party about standing in one of its target seats.

Too many of the party's seats are not hitting their target funding, one activist claims, because the incumbents have simply given up the ghost and there is no real effort to hold them.

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).

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.

With 585 constituencies, the party can run 10 open primaries a week from January 2014, each one in a different part of the country, starting with seats notionally held by the Conservatives pre-2010, then those notionally won in 2010, then the target seats for 2015, then the rest.

Democrats must target to hold Connectiuct, Washington (Rossi has alot of negatives from running 2 losing gubernatorial campaigns) and WV to make sure Manchin keeps that seat for them.

Siena has released the first of its highly anticipated state Senate race polls, showing two incumbent Republicans who are Democratic targets with comfortable leads and close contests in two Democrat - held seats.

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.

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

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.

This ad is targeting a half - dozen House districts in New York: The seats held by Reps. Lee Zeldin, John Faso, John Katko, Elise Stefanik, Claudia Tenney and Chris Collins.

The Sunday Telegraph also reports that the Tories will target 30 Labour - held northern seats in an effort to replicate their success at wiping out the Liberal Democrats in the south - west in 2015.

When Nuneaton was held by the Conservatives, then Warwickshire North — Labour's number one target seat — it set a pattern for Labour in the Midlands.

In New Mexico, the NRCC is targeting the 1st District seat being vacated by Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham at the end of the term and the 3rd District seat held by Democratic Congressional Campaign Chairman Ben Ray Luján.

ComRes have a new battleground poll out, results here, this time looking at 10 Conservative held UKIP target seats.

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.

The hope is that Trump's rise and his reputation for being polarizing will allow some Republican - held seats that had been regarded as safe to emerge as potential Democratic targets.

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.

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.

Labour have, so far, held three seats in a key target council, Barnet, while the Tories have held six with three results announced.

• Labour has been doing well in target seats, like Cambridge, Hastings, Carlisle, Stevenage (where the Tories hold the Westminster seat, but now just have two councillors), Cannock Chase, Dudley, Ipswich, Lincoln, Peterborough and Hastings (where the Labour group is the biggest ever.)

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».

CLF's television reservations, in both broadcast and cable, target 19 Republican - held seats and Minnesota's 8th District, where Democratic incumbent Rick Nolan is retiring.

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.