Sentences with phrase «won marginal seats»

Councillors that won marginal seats on a tide of national popularity for their party are most likely to lose them when the tide ebbs.

Historically this has played to Labour's advantage with each party «lending» voters to the other to win marginal seats.»

Not only is he a liberal Tory and a Remainer, he is also an accomplished and energetic campaigner - and the author of a book about «how to win a marginal seat».

Ashcroft — who gave the Conservatives # 8m while the party was in opposition and led a drive to win marginal seats — has said he decided to write the book when Cameron declined to reward him with a sufficiently senior job in government when he came to power in 2010.

As we meet in the lower whips office, around the corner from the Commons chamber, I ask Barwell to provide his top tip for winning a marginal seat.

But that assumed the party would not win any marginal seats off the Conservatives.

They are as desperate as us to win this marginal seat and I really do appreciate the help that they give.

If there is a real story at all in the Tories» winning a marginal seat in Cheshire two years before a General Election, then it is that Cameron can win without having to please the Tory base in the least, and indeed while defining himself against it for the amusement of the BBC / Fleet Street dinner party circuit.

The Liberal Party appeared to shift campaign resources into defending its safer seats, Labor achieving substantial swings to win the marginal seats of Kingston, Makin and Wakefield, but failing to dislodge the Liberal Party in Boothby and Sturt.

The 52 - year - old is one of the few senior Tory MPs to have won a marginal seat from Labour, taking Hastings and Rye in 2010.

In recent years Tory financier Lord Ashcroft has poured money into local parties to help win marginal seats, he said.

When she won the marginal seat of Falmouth and Camborne in 1997, famously defeating the Conservative incumbent, Sebastian Coe, she became the first Labour MP in Cornwall since 1970 and the first woman MP in the county since 1920.

Not exact matches

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.

The Liberal MP for the Victorian seat of Murray, Sharman Stone, said the Cadbury grant was all about trying to win a marginal Tasmanian seat yet the loss of SPC Ardmona from her region would present a «real manufacturing emergency».

Corbyn plans to visit at least 40 marginal seats during the parliamentary recess that begins on Friday, enough to put him in Downing Street if Labour won them all.

A fascinating three - way Con / Lab / Ukip marginal — and perhaps the seat in which Ukip stands the best chance of winning.

«Ukip is getting itself now into a position in some of the marginals where it is in a serious position to win a seat in parliament and not just to split the vote.»

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.

Below is the text of my presentation at the Conservative Party Conference this afternoon setting out my latest research in marginal seats and the Tories» challenge in building an election - winning coalition of voters.

The Liberal candidate for the new WA seat of Burt is «very, very hopeful» of winning, despite marginal seat polling showing it is the most likely electorate in the state to go to Labor.

«CCHQ approves strong immigration message for campaigning in marginal seats Main The pre-election «ground war» is being won by the Conservatives»

The 1992 election saw the pinnacle of Conservatives Abroad's history, with the expat vote recognised as helping the party win a number of marginal seats.

Stroud has been relative to others a very marginal seat since 1992 as well as a swing seat as its winner's majority has not exceeded 9.1 % of the vote since the 19.2 % majority won in that year.

He began to become interested in political polling in the autumn of 2004 at a time when he was already working to help Conservative candidates win — and hold on to — some of the most marginal seats up and down the country.

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.

She won a 22.6 % swing, but the seat will be marginal next time it comes up for election in 2015.

First, the background: the party of the president in office essentially always loses seats in the mid-term elections (2002 was a post-9 / 11 one - off), a tendency likely to be reinforced in 2010 by the fact that so many Democrats rode the Obama wave to win marginal districts in» 08.

Just 0.0016 % of voters choosing differently would have given the Conservatives a majority, while the election saw a rise in very marginal seats: eleven were won by fewer than 100 votes.

It comes as a series of new polls suggest that the party are making no progress in the marginal seats they need to win from Labour in order to form the next government.

But my fervent belief is that London's best hope for a better future is a Labour Government, so all of my campaigning energy is directed towards helping our Labour candidates in marginal seats win in 2015.

My seat, Brighton Pavilion, is a hotly contested three way marginal which we must win if we are to have a good working majority after the election.

Clearly even if the Lib Dem vote is holding up better in the Lib Dem Tory marginals — that doesn» mean the Lib Dems would win these seats were a general election held tomorrow.

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.

Every marginal seat is unique, and the reasons why one seat is won and another seat is lost will vary markedly.

For the 2015 election, the party would focus single - mindedly on holding 40 marginal seats and winning another 40.

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.

In many of the marginal seats that Conservatives have to win to gain an overall majority in 2015, trade union members could hold the balance of power.

Recent polling in Lib Dem - Tory marginals suggests that Nick Clegg's party will keep almost all of the 23 Lib Dem seats David Cameron needs to win for a majority.

The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2010 as its winner's majority has not exceeded 8.2 % of the vote since the 21.8 % majority won in that year.

Such a result in these Labour / Conservative marginals would leave the Tories short of winning the 117 seats they need to take from the governing party in order to have an overall majority.

He won back the marginal seat in the 2017 general election after standing on proudly pro-Corbyn platform.

Good - looking political candidates are more likely to win elections — particularly in 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.

The polling by Lord Ashcroft found that despite the dreadful national figures, the party is actually running level with the Conservatives in most of the marginal seats that David Cameron needs to win a majority next year.

«Internet campaigning will never replace personal interaction; knocking on doors and leafleting is still where the battles will be won and lost - particularly in marginal seats,» Smith says.

Channel 4 News spoke to former MPs who lost their marginal seats in May and to candidates who lost, despite standing in seats where there had been a sitting Labour MP.They all aspire to win back the seats Labour will need to secure if the party is to return to government.

This makes it imperative that Labour wins every seat it can, including Labour - Lib Dem marginals, lest Clegg by default act as kingmaker to Cameron in a fit of absence of strategy.

The ConservativeHome blog speculates that the Tories could win an outright majority with just 37 % of the vote because the party is expected to do better in marginal seats and its supporters tend to be older people who are more likely to vote than the younger generation «who have flocked to Nick Clegg».

As before, YouGov questioned people in the 60 Labour - Conservative marginals in those seats that Labour won by a margin of between 6 and 14 percentage points.

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