Sentence examples for candidate captures from inspiring English sources

But if one candidate captures 50 percent of the vote, all 15 delegates go to him.

Unless one candidate captures a full fifty per cent of the vote, there will be a runoff between the top two finishers, on June 20th.

If no candidate captures 51%, the top two vote-getters will face each other in a November runoff.

If no single candidate captures the majority of votes, the top two candidates with the most votes will move on to a final round in November.

Some combination of wins in New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada will determine which candidate captures the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

The 1876 election saw one candidate capture the majority of the popular vote and another prevail in the electoral count.

Or he could divide the socially conservative vote and let a less preachy candidate capture the nomination.

In 1994 the PAN presidential candidate captured more than 25 percent of the vote, and the party's representation in both houses of the legislature expanded.

Several states elected non-PRI governors in the mid- and late 1990s, and in 1997 a non-PRI candidate captured the mayoralty of Mexico City.

But in a significant defeat for the more right-wing faction of the G.O.P., a Democratic candidate captured a Congressional seat in upstate New York that had stayed in Republican hands for more than a century.

Mr. Gore, however, carried the town by a modest margin, and four years ago Westfield went for Bill Clinton, the first time in memory that the Democratic presidential candidate captured the majority of votes here.