Sentence examples for ballot to elect from inspiring English sources

Opposition forces in Russia are holding a three-day national ballot to elect a leadership tasked with focusing the fight for fair elections.

For the first time the Commons is using an exhaustive secret ballot to elect a Speaker.

But this week it could muster only 98 votes in a secret ballot to elect a speaker.

Never in my life have I seen a ballot to elect the delegates who meet every year in Beijing.

A motion to ensure there was a secret ballot to elect the Speaker in the next parliament was defeated by 228 to 202.

A5 Candidates Excluded in Iran Conservative Muslim clerics in Iran have moved to shore up their power by excluding scores of reformist candidates from the ballot to elect a new Parliament.

The presidential elections, far easier to organize than the balloting to elect a Parliament, are still expected to go ahead on or around Oct. 12.

Nearly 2.5 million Albanians were eligible to cast ballots to elect 140 lawmakers.

Membership-wide ballots to elect our parliamentary leaders would transform leadership contests from the realm of intrigue into contests that reward merit and that essential political quality – popularity.

He wanted to appoint three women to his cabinet (and, in 1936, he did), but at the end of the day not even those women had been allowed to cast their ballots to elect him.

By 2009, the country had one of the most open electoral systems in Asia, with direct balloting to elect government officials, from the president all the way down to district chiefs and mayors.