Sentence examples for targeted seats from inspiring English sources

He held the reins when the Liberal Democrats won 46 of their targeted seats in May 1997.

In the final 72 hours of the campaign, Labor logged 50,000 individual conversations with voters in targeted seats.

The trade union movement ran its own, entirely separate, field campaign, flying volunteers and organisers around the country into their own targeted seats.

They made a million phone calls, they knocked on 560,000 doors, and logged 450,000 successful conversations in targeted seats.

Labor's field operatives weren't sitting in call centres, they were canvassing from their own lounge rooms, in the targeted seats, on their own phones, inside their own neighbourhoods.

"If they were there with safe races and raising money for targeted seats, they could really be assets," said Rob Stutzman, a Republican political strategist in Sacramento.

Under First Past The Post, the parties that are best at targeting seats gain an advantage.

The campaign was launched in Gower, one of the Conservatives' target seats for the election on 7 May.

The Senate Conservatives Fund had previously targeted open seats that had been held by Democrats.

Many of those target seats were suburban, it said.

Fourteen of the Tories' target seats remain without a candidate.