Sentence examples for a popular election from inspiring English sources

Mr Ahmadinejad won a popular election.

In doing so, Mr. Yushchenko has garnered a national following that has yet to be tested in a popular election.

"Religion is a popular election issue locally," said Dewi Fortuna Anwar, a prominent political analyst and adviser to Vice President Boediono.

But he is respected as a capable administrator and would have won re-election in a popular election in 2007 if one had been held.

There is no way that members of the Muslim Brotherhood can reconcile themselves to losing power after having won a popular election.

Mary Cecconi is the only Democrat to have beaten Michele Bachmann, the rising star of the Republican right, in a popular election.

There was a long, muddled, pledge that appeared to honour the request by setting a timetable for a direct popular election for the territory's "chief executive".

ANKARA, Turkey, May 31 (AP) — Turkey's Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday in favor of a constitutional amendment that would allow a direct popular election of the president.

Whatever can be said for or against the Electoral College, it gives the smallest perturbations an influence they wouldn't have in a nationwide popular election, where flaws would be diluted by so many more votes.

A direct popular election, they contend, would depersonalize the campaign, turning into nothing more than incessant money-grabbing and television advertising.

But if Iraq's bloody complexity has often made it hard to sustain this comforting narrative, the unmistakable imagery of a truly popular election, at least in most parts of the country, has now rendered it untenable.Not that some don't keep trying.