Sentences with phrase «winning key marginal seats»

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It clearly shows that in these marginal seats, the key battleground seats where the general election will be won and lost, voters are very concerned about threats to religious liberty and free speech.

Although gaining 22 seats, Labour lost all but one of its MPs in Scotland and ended up with a net loss of 26 seats, failing to win a number of key marginal seats that it had expected to win comfortably.

If Nigel Farage wins 2,000 to 3,000 unhappy Tories in each of the key marginals, he has written, the party could lose thirty seats and install Ed Miliband in Number 10 Downing Street.

Both the main parties could count on winning hundreds of safe seats each and the electoral battle would be won or lost in a smaller number of key marginal seats.

David Cameron said the party's second place in Scotland and its showing in England, where it took control of Peterborough Council and won council seats in key Westminster marginals such as Dudley and Nuneaton, represented a good result for a party in government for six years.

Finally, despite the important effects of the substantial rise of UKIP on the shares of the vote for the two main parties, UKIP are not set to win many seats nor have a disproportionate effect on the competition for seats between the two main parties in their key marginals.

Labour has established a «convincing» 11 - point lead over Conservatives in the key marginal seats Ed Miliband would need to win to secure victory in next year's general election, according to a new poll by ComRes for ITV News.

Politics: Loughborough is a key marginal, having been won by the party that received the most seats at every general election since February 1974.

The party needs to win over floating voters in a number of key marginal seats in towns and cities in the North and the Midlands.

They kept the Tories in check in key marginal seats and comfortably won the two Westminster by - elections.