Sentence examples for Successive ballots from inspiring English sources

But here's the ultimate irony: They can still cast votes on successive ballots, so they could be more influential than ever if the Democratic primary devolves into a floor fight.

Had he fallen short of the magic number, it might have opened up the possibility that he might lose the nomination on successive ballots, because the current rules allow for delegates in increasingly larger numbers to become "unbound" from their pledges as voting goes into later and later rounds of balloting. .

A 3-2 pro-airport majority for years has battled anti-airport forces that have marshaled successive ballot measures aimed at killing El Toro.

Simply put, there's a strong sense among political insiders — many of whom touched on the issue at the Berkeley event — that the president and his agenda are as polarizing (maybe more) as three successive ballot measure campaigns in the '90s inspired by conservative anger over illegal immigration, affirmative action and bilingual education.

Brotherhood supporters, meanwhile, were confident that their side had won and that with each successive victory at the ballot box, their vision for Egypt was coming to pass.

So far an average of about 68% of eligible voters have cast their ballots in each successive phase of polling, 10% more than in the last general election five years ago.

Based on voter demographics, the most likely states to approve a ballot initiative have already voted no on ballot initiatives so the chances of success get smaller in each successive state in which initiatives appear on the ballot.

Bersani told a meeting of parliamentarians he would quit as Democratic Party (PD) leader as soon as the election of the next head of state was completed, following two dramatic days of parliamentary voting in which successive centre-left candidates were scuppered in secret ballots.

Under British laws a single strike ballot can make successive rounds of industrial action lawful if the strikes can be shown to stem from the same dispute.

If a ballot takes place on the afternoon of the first day and no-one is elected, or no ballot had taken place, four ballots are held on each successive day: two in each morning and two in each afternoon.

Under the rotation system, the top name on the ballot falls to the bottom in each successive district, so that each of 80 candidates on the ballot gets the best billing in one district.