Sentence examples for ballot position from inspiring English sources

"What we won is a fair and equitable ballot position for every candidate," she said.

They were members of the Communist Party but that party had not qualified for ballot position in California.

Ballot position is likely to have its greatest impact in nonpartisan elections, primaries, and elections for minor offices.

Our findings indicate that the empirical domain of ballot position and layout effects is much wider than suggested by previous research.

Experimental studies from first-past-the-post systems show that the ballot position effect is causal as the order of names functions as a cue to voters.

Mr. Forrester was seeking a better ballot position in Bergen County, where the party organization had endorsed Assemblyman Paul DiGaetano, awarding him the number-one ballot position -- first row, first column.

The groundwork for this drop in popular support was laid at Likud's nominating convention last month, with allegations of payoffs for favored ballot positions.

The state's system of using a random drawing to assign ballot positions in primaries outside of New York City violates neither candidates' nor voters' rights, a judge ruled yesterday.

The group's online convention may yet produce an outcome much more Libertarian-flavored than the organizers originally imagined, and by then it will be too late to do anything about the ballot positions it has won.

Most of the writers who left Biggio out, in other words, were those who take a conservative overall approach to how many players they want in the Hall of Fame, and not those who ran out of ballot positions.

We show that incumbents and non-incumbents run again in the subsequent election at about equal rates, but that incumbents tend to advance in the party hierarchy and obtain safer ballot positions in future elections, which is what ultimately leads to electoral success.