Sentence examples for council polling from inspiring English sources

Meade convened a late-night council, polling his command staff about what to do next: they resolved to stay and fight, "on the defensive".

The omens from local council polls in February were poor for Mr Chavan he made little impact.

Parliamentary and local council polls will now be held on 5 June, delayed by a little more than week.

In the last three general elections, the national vote has coincided with county council polls in England.

But as well as conducting his national campaign, he is also running for re-election in the simultaneous local council poll.

However Labour fares in the general election, the party is poised to make modest gains across England in council polls tomorrow.

The higher turnout of a general election will ensure that millions of people who otherwise would not vote in council polls will do so.

With the Tories easily meeting their benchmark gains of more than 500 seats in the local council polls, Labour showed undisguised relief at the Tory defeat in yesterday's Romsey byelection.

Indeed, in Jaffna, TNA leaflets claimed that to vote for the ruling coalition would be to subject the peninsula to rule by Sri Lanka's mainly-Buddhist Sinhala majority.But, as if to demonstrate the extent of Sri Lanka's political and ethnic polarisation, Mr Rajapaksa's coalition won a massive victory in a provincial council poll held on the same day in Uva in the south-east.

UKIP gained more than 150 seats in council polls across England, but had a weak performance in London.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said his party will be "serious players" at the 2015 general election after it made gains in council polls across England.