Sentence examples for a serious electoral from inspiring English sources

The far right failed to take off as a serious electoral force in the 1970s, and it's failed again now.

Big changes are needed, he says, to avert a serious electoral defeat.The SNS may know what it is opposed to, but it is less clear what is for.

Alberta in 2015 is not the Alberta of 1971, nor of 1993 — the last time the party faced a serious electoral challenge from its left flank.

Black people were constantly used as the butt of dumb jokes on television and the National Front was becoming a serious electoral threat.

The last thing they want is a new Labour leader who might represent a serious electoral challenge to Cameron's successor in 2020.

Chile's congressional elections last month saw both a high abstention rate and a surprisingly strong vote for the unreconstructed communists.To mount a serious electoral challenge, the left needs new ideas.

There are reports that the company is poised to make several thousand of its staff redundant.In December 2007 Mr Chávez suffered his most serious electoral defeat, when a first attempt to change the constitution to abolish term limits was defeated in a referendum.

But at the moment, a resurrection of Congressional Democrats seems distant, the idea of recapturing the House in two years is a long shot, and the party is bracing for serious electoral trouble in the 2012 Senate races.

And as the party faces one of the most serious electoral challenges of its history -- a presidential election on July 2 that polls describe as a virtual tie between the PRI candidate, Francisco Labastida Ochoa, and the center-right candidate, Vicente Fox Quesada -- the reported distribution of handouts has soared.

In May 2005, Jeffrey Toobin wrote about the first serious electoral challenge to Morgenthau's reign, from a prominent former judge and Assistant District Attorney named Leslie Crocker-Snyder.

With a tough and determined campaign, he beat back his one serious electoral challenger, Mitt Romney, saving his political career.