Sentence examples for decline to state from inspiring English sources

This year, voters and candidates for the first time can choose to register with "no party preference," a category that was once referred to as "decline to state".

Since 1990, voters who decline to state a party registration have grown from just over 9percentt of the electorate to nearly 14percentt now.

Or consider San Francisco, which has the largest (surprise!) proportion of voters in the state who decline to state their political preferences when they register.

She soon attracted enough Democrats and "decline to state" independents to beat the presumptive Democratic nominee, Jerry Brown — the former governor, Oakland mayor and now attorney general — in "what if" polls about the general election in November.

Here is how the new primaries would work: Voters would continue to register with parties or, in what is known in California as "decline to state," choose to be unaffiliated.

Mr. Whalen said that California voters tend to vote for "hybrid" governors — neither staunch liberals nor hard-line conservatives — in part because a fifth of the state's electorate is made up of "decline to state" voters, who often are fiscally cautious and socially liberal.

He declined to state the American position.

He always declined to state his party affiliation.

She declined to state her personal view on the bailout.

Mr. Feuerstein declined to state net profits or losses.

It declined to state how much it had pumped in.