Sentence examples for close electoral from inspiring English sources

Economic stagnation may aggravate crime.The close electoral battle poses another risk.

That is still squarely in the range historically associated with a close electoral outcome, but not an encouraging direction for the incumbent.

*With neither nominee within reach of a big popular majority, and the polls suggesting a close electoral contest as well, how would the winner lead?

Policies developed to please the party faithful are not being subjected to close electoral scrutiny and do not match the complex political and military realties of Iraq".

In a particularly close electoral fight, with several minor parties muddying the waters, Crosby knew it was crucial to identify the small groups of voters in marginal seats who could influence the result.

Less than three months before a general election, more than 150,000 people packed into Madrid for what may turn out to have been the biggest rally held during the campaign, in what looks like an increasingly close electoral race.Those calling the people onto the streets on December 30th, billed as "Christian Family Day", were not professional politicians, but Spain's Catholic bishops.

And a war-crimes court has sentenced to death the main leaders of the BNP's closest electoral ally, the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's third-largest political party.

These elections were widely expected to be Nigeria's closest electoral contest yet, between the increasingly unpopular Goodluck Jonathan's People's Democratic Party PDPP) and retired General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive's Congress APCCongress APC

While opinion polls in Venezuela are often tainted by partisanship, they suggest that the referendum could be Mr. Chávez's closest electoral test since his presidency began in 1999, but one he may well win.

LONDON — After a campaign that brought much new — the first televised leadership debates, above all — Britons embraced a familiar ritual on Thursday, crowding to 42,000 polling stations to cast ballots in what promised to be the closest electoral contest in a generation.

We had kept Florida as a toss-up in our previous update of the map because of its history as the scene of some of the country's closest electoral battles.