Sentence examples for declining vote from inspiring English sources

Religious political parties, faced with declining vote share, have moved pragmatically toward the center.

Mr. Pataki's declining vote upstate is partly a product of the growing appeal of Tom Golisano, the Rochester billionaire running on the Independence Party line, who won 22percentt of the upstate vote.

West Germany's three-party system of the postwar era is now a six-party system, making the formation of stable coalitions much more difficult, a condition exacerbated by the declining vote shares for the major parties.

A much better way to address the "democratic crisis" of a declining vote would be the inclusion on the ballot paper of a formal option to abstain.Spoiling the ballot paper simply confuses the interpretation of results and robs the individual of the opportunity to register an explicit rejection of the choices on offer.

Most of them have a declining vote," he said.

Do the math: If there weren't three Republicans running and splitting the GOP's gradually declining vote, one might have a fighting chance of making it into the top two.

They said that combined with the scramble by states to hold early primaries, the limit was a major factor in declining voting rates that saw just 49percentt of adults going to the polls in 1996.

"You working this hard?" Somewhat sheepishly, Mr. Allard urged his colleague to vote for the plan but Mr. Obama declined, voting no.

Mr. Obama declined, voting no, as did the other Democratic presidential candidate on hand, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and everyone else present.

It could be argued that declining to vote is its own political statement.

The more striking thing, as he sees it, is the failure of the declining protest vote to split decisively in any direction.