Sentence examples for after a runoff from inspiring English sources

The accusation led to a serious rift in the Democratic Party after a runoff vote, which Mr. Green won.

JOHANNESBURG — Robert Mugabe, the runaway winner in a one-horse race, was quickly inaugurated Sunday as president of Zimbabwe after a runoff election on Friday.

"Reducing it to five weeks after a runoff makes it hard to patch up the hard feelings and put together the kind of coalition that you would want," said Kenneth Sherrill, an emeritus professor of political science at Hunter College.

MONROVIA, Liberia — President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia inaugurated a second six-year term on Monday, calling for political reconciliation after a runoff election that was tarnished by an opposition boycott and street clashes between protesters and the police.

A similar outcome after a runoff round might mean greater instability for a few months, and the risk of another conflagration at ballot-counting time, but perhaps this would be bad-but-manageable.

Another problem facing the board is how to get its 6,700 voting machines ready for a general election after a runoff, said Gary Berzansky, the chief custodian of the machines.

In advertising, campaign statements and interviews this week, Mr. Wicker has noted that Mr. Easley rejected calls to drop out of the 1990 campaign for the United States Senate after forcing a runoff with the front-runner, Harvey Gantt.

Emanuel, who was sworn in for a second term on Monday after facing a runoff election, has received almost $140,000 in campaign donations from United since 2011.

After protests delayed a runoff vote, Martelly agreed to let the recently installed parliament select an interim president, and he left office on February 7 , 2016

His main task will be to quickly organize fresh elections after Haiti cancelled a runoff presidential election in January, amid often violent protests over alleged fraud in the first round and after the opposition candidate boycotted the vote.

In 1997, the Democratic mayoral nomination was thrown into disarray when election officials first called for a runoff after the primary, then reversed themselves after discovering thousands of uncounted ballots.