Sentence examples for a minority vote from inspiring English sources

Sixty years ago, for comparison, just 39 out of 625 were elected on a minority vote.

Both in 1992 and 1996 Clinton won on a minority vote with the help of third party candidates.

For years, campaigners have asserted that a minority vote could make a difference, but no one has really taken the claim seriously.

But don't forget it is a hybrid system, which would have given single-party majority governments on a minority vote in almost every postwar general election.

In the days when the Liberals and other small parties only contested a handful of seats, MPs elected by a minority were very rare: in 1951, for example, just 39 MPs out of 625 were elected on a minority vote.

All the time, the Taiwanese majority developed increasing opposition to Chinese-KMT rule, and, in the presidential election of 2000, the DPP's Chen rode to victory on the back of the appeal of "Taiwanese identity", and a major split in the corrupt, out-dated KMT which enabled him to get in on a minority vote.

Another reductionist false analogy: Brexiteers are not Trump supporters, or a minority voting against simply being "left behind" economically, or against the "mainstream".

After Facebook's IPO, shareholders other than Zuckerberg will have "a majority economic position and a minority voting position," Elson said.

The European Commission now says it will approve the potato "probably this fall," even though European ministers have twice been deadlocked on approval over the last eight months, with only a minority voting in favor.

But in 2012, when there was a big minority vote, Obama carried the state by ten points.

Party leaders hope that the slate's moderate positions will help attract Anglo voters and that Mr. Sanchez and Mr. Kirk will bring out a record minority vote.