Sentence examples for comparable election from inspiring English sources
Douglas County has reported increasing next year's budget by $32,000 (a 10percentt increase compared to 2010, the most recent comparable election year) to address the additional burdens from the proof of citizenship requirement.
In 1992, the closest comparable election to 2015 in its character, pollsters without exception vastly underestimated the Tories.
"This is the most important governors' election in 20 years," said Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, which devoted $50 million to races this year, three times the amount the group spent four years ago, in the last comparable election.
The BBC shows seat change by comparing the seats each party is contesting this year with the result for the same seats at the last comparable election.
At 84%, voter participation was way above the latest comparable elections in Britain (61%) or America (64%).
According to BBC projections with most of the votes counted, Labour gained 38 percent of the national vote in elections to 181 local councils, up three percentage points from its showing in comparable elections last year.
It was a budget even more damaging than the one that helped Labour win 800 council seats in the last comparable local elections in 2012.
I've found the early vote is a decent calibration tool in addition to comparable past elections, to draw upon when making national and state turnout forecasts.
The government shrugs off the deaths and violence as less horrific than the incidents during South Africa's elections last year, and comparable to the election turmoil in many other African countries.But there is a big difference.
Similarly, the Republican side has not mounted a major "soft money" effort for the general election comparable to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which in 2004 undermined the presidential bid of Senator John Kerry.
Those documents, comparable to certificates of election that are issued to advise Congress of the election of its members, must be submitted by Dec. 18, the date set by federal law for the electors to meet.
