Sentence examples for close ballot from inspiring English sources

For Reynolds's family, that close ballot serves as a positive sign that the Hall's recently created Golden Era Committee will choose him when it meets next month in Dallas.

They particularly opposed the change because voters from abroad seemed to favor right-wing parties, so that in the event of a very close ballot, votes from non-residents could tip the scale in favour of Peterle.

His win cemented a Democratic sweep across the longtime conservative stronghold of Orange County, with the 39th the last of the four Republican-held congressional districts to fall in the county after close ballot counting prolonged the drama.

In December 1933, Ward finished second in close balloting for the Associated Press Big Ten Athlete of the Year award.

Parker edged Minnesota's Maya Moore and Chicago's Elena Delle Donne in one of the closest ballots in league history.

Messier beat out the Boston defenseman Ray Bourque by 2 points in the closest balloting ever for the trophy.

Ballot access: After an embarrassing presidential primary election that tried to lock out Senator John McCain, there was hope that New York's notoriously closed ballots would finally be opened.

At issue is the fate of Senate Bill 6482, the measure devised by the Democratic minority leader, Martin Connor, to clean up the closed-ballot system that forced Senator John McCain to wage an expensive legal battle to compete statewide in New York's March 7 presidential primary.

After the voting closes, the ballots are counted in rounds, with the least popular candidate being eliminated in each round and the other preference votes being added on to each candidates' totals.

"A witness called by the Republicans conceded that in close races, ballots ought to be hand-counted.

At 9 p.m., the polls closed and ballot counting started in each polling place, in the presence of observers from the campaigns and monitoring groups.