Where the election will be won and lost: Key targets and battlegrounds
North-west England will play a crucial role in determining the outcome of the next general election, new analysis shows.
The region is home to the number one target seat for Labour, Burnley, and the chief target for the Conservatives, Warrington South.
It also contains five of Labour’s top 10 targets and three of the Tories’ top 10.
Other key Conservative-Labour battlegrounds include the Midlands and Yorkshire, while most of the pivotal Conservative-Liberal Democrat contests are in southern England.
Scotland and Wales both hold opportunities for several parties to make gains.
But East Anglia could find itself largely overlooked during the campaign, with very few constituencies appearing on any battleground lists.
– How the targets are calculated
The top targets for the next general election are based on how easy or hard it would be for a seat to change hands.
This is done by calculating
