Sentence examples for closed election from inspiring English sources

Voters this time can choose individual candidates instead of just closed election lists, as they did in 2005, and this will determine the weight of each party within any prospective coalition.

We've seen this trend gain momentum in America following Edward Snowden's NSA program leaks, and even more vocally in Hong Kong recently with the Occupy Central protests against the Chinese government's famously closed election system.

The states remaining for Sanders to catch up to Clinton comprise a similar mixture of red states (e.g., West Virginia where Sanders is polling ahead), both open and closed election states, and blue states (e.g. Oregon, where Sanders is competitive).

All 483 polling stations in the city - one of Ukraine's biggest - were closed, election commissions either occupied by armed groups or threatened and voter lists seized.

Every voter has an equal right to participate in elections which is denied by closed elections.

Clinton will, of course, not have the benefit of closed elections in November.

The Sanders campaign also argued at rallies in New York — some which drew up to 28,000 — that the state's closed elections system would make it a "tough primary" to win.

A fortnight before yesterday's decision, the prime minister – who had of course basked in the warmth of the Sun in last year's close election – attended a closed summit of CEOs at News International's Wapping base.

"By the time the polls have closed on election night, if it's decided that Obama gets re-elected, both Mitch McConnell and John Boehner will be saying to each other, 'We're going to clean up in the 2014 midterms,' " said Mr. Weber, the former Republican congressman.

Behind the closed curtains, election operatives had for months been shaping the GOP's political messaging in Colorado, applying the kind of sophisticated data analysis typically associated with their Democratic opponents.

Gov. Tony Knowles allowed a bill that would create closed primary elections to become law without his signature.