Sentence examples for decent electoral from inspiring English sources

What's less often aired is the fact that no man has led the Conservatives to a decent electoral majority for more than half a century (under a system that is deliberately geared towards generating large majorities).

Across the UK, the grip of the mainstream parties is weakening fast – and would be weaker still had we a half-decent electoral system.

Even if Trump can win Florida, Ohio and Iowa (three important states where he is in a close race with Clinton), and all the other states where he is leading (including those where it's close), he would still need to secure at least one state with a decent number of electoral college votes like Virginia, Pennsylvania or Michigan.

Others to look out for include Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia, volatile states where there are a decent number of electoral votes.

And yet there's something gloomily philistine about it, something that leaves you with a surprising pang for the days when Tory patricians were allowed to be decent chaps without quite such demands on their electoral palatability.

That split ought to give Labour a decent advantage in terms of seats because of a bias in the electoral system; Labour seats tend to cluster in constituencies with smaller electorates.

This is part of his hazy plan for what would happen should his attempted putsch succeed; it also includes a proposal to set up a "people's council", formed of "decent men" who would amend the laws to reform the police, the electoral system and much else, all to remove the stain of Mr Thaksin from the body-politic.

Instead of going to bed at a decent hour the other night, I got hooked running numbers with an interactive electoral map of the United States on the Los Angeles Times website.

Instead, continue to speak to those who have turned their backs on the electoral process -- those who are struggling without health care, without decent schools, without jobs, without hope.

Fundamental to the electoral success of the party in recent years was the perception that we are decent people who generally do the right thing.

In a letter to the Guardian, the group wrote: "Fundamental to the electoral success of the party in recent years was the perception that we are decent people who generally do the right thing.