Sentence examples for ballot in the first from inspiring English sources

"I don't know whether it would have gotten on the ballot in the first place," he said.

In some precincts, every voter on the registry had cast a ballot in the first hour, according to state media.

The appointment must be confirmed in a separate nonpartisan ballot in the first general election after the judge has been in office for 12 months.

Because if you vote for a mainstream candidate who is top of the ballot in the first round, your other preferences will never be counted.

At present at many American firms, directors can be elected despite overwhelming opposition if no other candidates win more votes something that is quite common because it is hard to get onto the ballot in the first place.

If that recommendation is endorsed by the commission and approved by the voters, there could be a host of candidates from several political parties on the same ballot in the first election.

He trails Romney badly in the first two States, and is not even on the ballot in the third, after failing to file necessary paperwork.

A straw poll in the north of Delhi, which yesterday want to the ballot in the third of nine phases of voting, suggested it would not change the way people felt.

Mr. de Marcy voted for Ms. Le Pen last Sunday and said he would cast a blank ballot in the second round, unless Ms. Le Pen endorses Mr. Sarkozy or Mr. Hollande.

He chose Mr. Crowley as his successor and the party placed him on the ballot in the Seventh Congressional District, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Flushing, Woodside and Jackson Heights and a small section of the Bronx.

Norbert Hofer, a rightwing populist from the Austrian Freedom party (FPÖ), will go head to head with the Green party's Alexander Van der Bellen in a runoff ballot in the second round of Austria's presidential election.