Sentence examples for marginal contests from inspiring English sources

There's a marginal outcome in 40 seats for us and if we won every one of those marginal contests we would get to 40-odd".

Candidates contesting marginal seats were more likely to spend close to the legal maximum.

Those contesting marginal seats might expect to get two or three of their wishes granted.

By conventional calculations, Labour has most to gain and the Tories most to lose from a Lib Dem surge, as there are many more Lib-Con marginals than Lib-Lab contests.

The inner southern suburbs district of Unley was won in 2002 by outspoken Liberal Mark Brindal who failed to win preselection for the seat and moved to contest the marginal Labor seat of Adelaide, but was shrouded in a controversy concerning a sexual relationship that Brindal had with a mentally ill man, forcing him to withdraw.

Dawson said the party will contest marginals Morecambe and Lunesdale, Lancaster and Fleetwood, Blackpool North and Fylde, plus Rossendale & Darwen, which is being contested by Labour for Jack Straw's son, Will.

Realistically, Hove will either turn red or blue, but if general elections ever came down to a clear two- or three-party split, that is certainly not the case in the patchwork election of 2015, with the two biggest national parties contesting marginals against the Lib Dems, SNP, Ukip, Greens and Plaid Cymru on issues that vary widely across the country.

Our support could influence the outcome in a tight election contest, especially in marginal constituencies.

Mensch's decision to stand down to move to New York with her family will provide David Cameron with a difficult byelection contest in the marginal Corby seat.

The visitors to the North-East are Bristol, the team who have shared most of the basement duties with London Irish this season, but such is the overdue form they are running into that the bookies see them as marginal favourites for today's contest.

Burke weighed in at 172 pound, and started the contest as the marginal favourite at odds of 5 4.