Sentence examples for a bad election from inspiring English sources

Peter Robinson's (and formerly Ian Paisley's) DUP had a bad election in May too.

Referring to Republican losses in November, Mr. Flake said: "There's nothing like a bad election to focus the mind.

"It's clearly a bad election for the Congress," said Ashutosh Varshney, a political scientist at Brown University.

It was a bad election for the Tories, who failed to win seats they believed were in their grasp.

Many Zanzibaris are attracted by the opposition's call for change, but a bad election may encourage them to see independence as a way of getting it.

But for the 30-year-old leader of a political party, the Netherlands' youngest ever, it was not a bad election.

This compromise is a bad election-year joke.

Democrats had just come off a very bad election year, in which they were punished by voters in part for being too liberal.

"If we allow that to be the end of the conversation, then we will probably have a very bad election cycle," Mr. Martinez said.

What I think is disreputable is people who believe we are going to a very bad election result, that we are going to lose in historically bad terms, but don't believe there's anything we can do about it.

The Club won half of the 18 races into which it put money in 2012, and all nine of its general-election House candidates survived what was otherwise a very bad election for conservatives.