Sentences with phrase «top target seat»

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.

Another top target seat is Enfield Southgate, where Tory MP David Burrowes has a 4,700 majority.

The party is asking the following rather pertinent question: «If the Conservatives can't beat us in the 11th top target seat under these circumstances, when can they beat us?»

The Western Mail is reporting that Labour MP Betty Williams, 64, is standing down from one of our party's top target seats in Wales.

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.

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.

The SNP secured 20 % of the vote in Scotland but failed to win their top target seats, including Ochil and South Perthshire and Dundee West.

«Labour's 100 top target seats Main SWP «socialist sharia court» allegations over rape claim mystery man «Comrade Delta»»

Not exact matches

The party slipped to third place in Eastleigh, one of its top ten target seats for the general election, behind Ukip and the Liberal Democrats.

Gibson has managed to keep his seat, but he remains a top target of the DCCC heading into the 2014 midterm elections, and his opponent, Democratic activist and political newcomer Sean Eldridge, is making the selfsame argument about the GOP congressman — that he leans too far to the right and in doing so is contributing to the dysfunction down in D.C.

Yesterday, Cuomo took square aim at incumbent Republican Marcellino, who was not previously thought to be on the Democrats» top target list, but thanks largely to the controversial candidacy of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, many more seats are now believed to be in play.

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.

6) Candidate selections - the next three months are key to putting in place Labour candidates for the top 75 target seats at the next general election.

«EMILY's List has made this seat a top target and is excited about the prospect of having a strong woman candidate unseat Representative Katko in 2016.»

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.

The Hudson Valley seat is a top target for Democrats looking to make gains in the House.

Democrats have made this seat a top - target.

North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat whose seat could likely be a top target for national Republicans in 2018, will soon announce whether she will pursue a political path that could take a re-election campaign out of the picture.

His 5th District seat wouldn't normally be a top Democratic target, but Democrats have spent millions trying to unseat the seven - term Republican this year.

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

Both national political parties have already targeted the 24th Congressional District seat as a top priority for 2016, signaling they plan to invest heavily to win the Syracuse area seat.

35 % of candidates selected for the top twenty target seats are women but just 28 % for the top 75 target seats.

Their top 50 Labour target seats include plenty of Lab - Con battles where they will get squeezed, as well as several three - way contests where they might struggle.

It's a seat Democrats have targeted as one of their top national priorities in 2018.

Ortiz Jones is one of several Democrats running to take on Hurd, a former undercover CIA officer who narrowly won reelection to his Texas swing seat in 2016 and ranks as a top Democratic target for 2018.

There are 3 women in the top 10 target seats (30 %), 7 women in the top 20 targets (35 %), and 8 women in the top 30 target seats (27 %).

If you take the top thirty Lib Dem target seats with Tory MPs, only nine are in areas that voted Remain.

I have restricted the list to the Tories» top 200 target seats (the party needs to gain 117 seats to get a majority of one in Parliament) and the numbers refer to where they appear, on paper, on that target list (based on the Rallings and Thrasher figures).

When Democrat Michael P. Kearns stumped the experts back in 2012 by winning the 142nd Assembly seat on the Republican and Conservative lines, he planted a big target on one of Albany's top leaders — then - Speaker Sheldon Silver.

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.

Nevada 3rd District: Democrats haven't been able to defeat Heck, but his open seat should be a top takeover target.

Of the candidates in the remaining seats in the top 200 Tory targets, a further 18 are women.

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.

Incumbent GOP Rep. Joe Heck is vacating the southern Nevada seat to run for the Senate, leaving it a top Democratic target this year.

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.

The former lieutenant governor, who moved into the top spot when scandal led to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's resignation, said Friday that he believed he was the target of an organized effort to push him out of the race to win the governor's seat in his own right.

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.

There is a new poll by CrosbyTextor in the Sunday Telegraph, conducted in the top thirty Conservative target seats.

(A party insider countered Burns» claim in an interview, contending that part of the GOP strategy is to target lower - level seats and not stoke Democratic turnout by running top - of - the - ticket candidates.)

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.

The contributions represent a strong start for Brindisi, a state Assembly member from Utica, as he campaigns for a congressional seat targeted by both national political parties as one of their top priorities in 2018.

[5] The 2 seats that were to be contested in Shirley West ward after the death of a Labour councillor and the stepping down of an independent councillor at the election were top targets for the Conservatives.

About 50 Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs are retiring in the Tories» top 200 target seats.

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.

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