Sentence examples for calamitous election from inspiring English sources

The national elections commission, bound by law to release final results on Tuesday, was granted a 48-hour extension after the calamitous election on Nov. 28, during which ballot sacks were lost, polling stations were burned and voting was allowed to continue even after Election Day.

It is no coincidence that the most resonant moment of Labour's otherwise calamitous 2010 election campaign was Gordon Brown's address not to a trade union audience but to Citizens UK, an alt-labour network.

Many UMNO stalwarts blame him for last March's calamitous general election, when the UMNO-led National Front coalition lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority and four state governments to the opposition.

Despite the pincer movement against him, there is a defiant mood in Downing Street based on the fact that Mr Blair was democratically elected only a year ago, the local election results were not calamitous and opinion polls do not show an overwhelming demand for him to go immediately.

Labour's 1983 manifesto was blamed by many – including the former prime minister, James Callaghan – for the party suffering a calamitous defeat in the general election held 25 years ago this week.

The Democrats' calamitous defeat in last year's elections — not only losing the Presidency but remaining in a rut in both chambers of Congress and ceding further ground to Republicans in state houses, governors' mansions, and mayors' offices around the country — deepened a well of intra-Party bitterness that had become evident long before Election Day.

The tranquillity that prevailed as millions of Angolans went to the polls last week and the acceptance of the outcome by the opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or Unita, set this election apart from Angola's calamitous last vote, in 1992.

In 2010's general election, just a year before its calamitous Holyrood result, Labour even increased its vote share on 2005.

He came to power in 2000 in a flawed vote that he himself described as "calamitous", but he then put off holding another election for a decade.

On the timing and nature of Gore's endorsement, some argued that Gore waited because he did not want to repeat his calamitous early endorsement of Howard Dean during the 2004 Presidential Election.

First, the calamitous episode last autumn, when he floated the idea of calling a general election, then pulled back.