Sentence examples for election a record for from inspiring English sources

Four hundred absentee ballots were cast in this election, a record for the district.

The two political parties have raised $160.5 million in soft money for the 2000 election, a record for this point in an election cycle.

Ford's 720,891 votes represented 65 percent of the total votes cast in the election, a record for a statewide race in Kentucky.

These are among the dizzying array of voting methods and situations facing the 15.4 million voters who registered in California for the recall election, a record number for a California election for governor, state officials said.

As of last week, the two political parties were on pace to raise an astonishing $500 million in soft money for this year's elections -- astonishing because it would be a record for any election cycle since the soft-money binge began in 1992, and this is not even a presidential year.

The gun mailing came in the final, hectic days of an election campaign that briefly set a record for the most expensive Senate race in the state's history.

While the 2014 election is projected to set a record for overall spending for midterm contests, it is doing so with far fewer donors than past cycles.

U.S. stocks did not recoil from Trump's electoral victory, instead setting a record for election-to-year-end gains.

That is three times the amount devoted to television and radio commercials during the presidential race of 2000 and a record for an election anywhere.

This was part of a huge surge in spending by non-party groups, whose spending hit $304 million in 2010, a record for any election cycle -- presidential or midterm.

The Obama campaign fund-raiser at George Clooney's home took in nearly $15 million, setting a record for a presidential election fund-raiser, Jackie Calmes reported.