Sentences with phrase «win target seats»

For the Conservatives, a majority will remain out of reach if they fail to win target seats in places like Bolton West and Wirral South.

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.

«That is higher than the national swing — 4.5 per cent in YouGov's latest Britain - wide poll — but not enough to win every target seat.

Not exact matches

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

Even if Ukip wins very few seats, it could split the Tory vote and prevent the party securing its own target seats.

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:

And if you look specifically at Pennsylvania, for example, going into that election, the Democrats had a narrow majority in the statehouse - five or six seats - and that Operation RedMap, this national Republican effort, targeted three, put money in, won all three.

The two main parties look to be in a strong position to defend what they won in 2010 but seem less well placed to launch attacks on their target seats — hence the likelihood of a stalemate.

Indeed, it takes a stretch of the imagination to visualise Corbyn winning some of Labour's target seats but this has caused surprisingly few problems so far.

In 2010, though the Conservatives did not achieve the national vote share they wanted, the party's targeting strategy meant it won 23 more Labour seats and 9 more Liberal Democrat seats than it would have done on a uniform swing.

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.

But with a limited House playing field, Democrats need to win virtually all of the competitive seats, and some initial takeover targets look like they are slipping out of reach.

Targeting can help maximise the number of seats a party wins with any given level of national support, but it is no substitute for broad appeal.

Drawing on his unique perspective as the man responsible for the party's target seats and polling, the 133 - page book gives Lord Ashcroft's view of the Conservatives» progress since their third defeat in 2005, the reasons for the party's failure to win an overall majority in 2010, and David Cameron's decision to form a coalition with -LSB-...]

The coverage of the elections also rarely took into account that the FN was unable to put forward more candidates and win more seats despite them having been carefully targeted, demonstrating further the limits of the party's reach.

Drawing on his unique perspective as the man responsible for the party's target seats and polling, the 133 - page book gives Lord Ashcroft's view of the Conservatives» progress since their third defeat in 2005, the reasons for the party's failure to win an overall majority in 2010, and David Cameron's decision to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

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

Democrats are targeting the California seats, especially in Orange County, in their quest to flip 24 seats and win back the House.

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 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.

Far from there being the long - predicted «swing back» to the Tories as the election nears, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggest that Labour have actually cemented their position in many of the target seats they need to win.

Katko's 24th Congressional District seat is among some three dozen seats that Democrats have targeted as a key to winning back control of the House.

Currently, Ukip is likely to win another four seats; but this figure could well change, depending on whether local voters in their key target seats can be persuaded that Ukip has a real chance of victory locally.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If we are to not only win the next election, but ensure a sustained period of electoral success, then a more medium term strategy is also needed, in addition to the current focus on today's target seats.

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.

Andy, what Chris probably means is although we gain seats initially, the ones we need to win lower down the target seat list get a bit tougher.

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.

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.

Worcester is 59th on their target list, placing it halfway on the list of seats David Cameron needs to win if he is to gain an overall majority.

The first results of the night had produced Labour wins in Sunderland but outside of its strongholds in the north, it failed to take vital seats such as the number one target of Warwickshire North, where the Conservatives increased their share of the vote.

He is currently working on a campaign by the group Searchlight to keep the British National party below the threshold they need to win the EU seat they are targeting in the north of England, and in the process discovering how rightwing organisations are also using social networks to mobilise people.

National Republicans immediately targeted the seat at the start of this election cycle and played host to a very competitive three - way primary won by attorney Tom Rooney a.k.a. the luckiest congressional candidate in the country (as of today).

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.

Although the collapse at the hands of the SNP in Scotland was widely expected, the party failed to win some of its key target seats in England and also endured defeats for key figures such as shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

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.

But on election day, it will still let the Tories target marginal voters in must - win seats more precisely than ever before.»

On the old boundaries Labour could win an overall majority with a lead over the Tories of 3 %, but given they win far more seats in Scotland and Wales than the Tories do, we really will need to wait for the other Commissions» reports before we can make any estimates about how their target will change.

It is twentieth on the Conservative target list and is a seat we must win if we are to win the election nationally.

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.

Is this a sign of Tory confidence, that they now believe they are in with a chance of winning a solid Labour seat, or panic that Lib Dem targets have fallen out of reach?

Speaking to the BBC after the result was announced, Paul Nuttall said he wanted to win «at least» ten seats at the next general election, and set out how he would target Labour heartlands.

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.

Cuomo said he will target at least six New York congressional Republicans to try and help the national Democrats capture 24 seats needed to win control of the House.

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.