Sentence examples for a sample of votes from inspiring English sources

Quick counts, which are by private pollsters, are based on a sample of votes.

A sample of votes taken by independent pollsters at the Indonesian Survey Institute gave the lead to Mr. Yudhoyono's party, which is ranked only fifth in the current Parliament, with about a fifth of the vote.

Mr. Morales, 46, an Aymara Indian and former coca farmer who also promises to roll back American-prescribed economic changes, had garnered up to 51percentt of the vote, according to televised quick-count polls, which tally a sample of votes at polling places and are considered highly accurate.

Thus if we observe a sample of votes on stories over the same time interval for each story, the distribution of votes, and hence location on the popularity list, would follow a lognormal distribution.

However, it is necessary to specify that our findings may overestimate the impact of migration on political opinions and attitudes as our empirical study has been conducted on a sample of voting migrants.

SCIENCE TIMES, PAGE F1 New Indonesian President A former general who has promised to uphold civilian rule appears to have easily defeated President Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia's presidential election, a sampling of votes indicates.

According to forecasts based on a representative sample of votes, the 18-party coalition, still known as the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, won more than 64percentt of the votes and 177 seats of the 250 in Parliament.

Of a sample of 144 double votes from a partial hand recount this weekend, 80 ballots showed votes for both Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Gore.

To evaluate this expectation, we determined the popularity rank of a sample of front page votes within 24-hours of story promotion and compared the rank to the number of votes, as shown in Figure 7.

A sample of more than 54percentt of votes cast, taken by the Center for Free Elections and Democracy, an independent polling organization, showed that Mr. Seselj's Radical Party had won 27.5percentt.

Backers of the PublicMind poll, including Mr. Calvanelli and Stephen Salmore, a veteran Republican political consultant, defended the use of voter records because it allowed them to assemble a sample of people who had actually voted in recent general elections or last year's Republican primary.