Sentence examples for election belonged from inspiring English sources

Though the election belonged to the Democrats, Breckinridge, a Whig, was elected over five challengers for the office.

It shouldn't be a surprise that there is one Republican candidate who is not yet ready to cede the field to Trump and Cruz, whose politics, as recently as the last Presidential election, belonged to the fringe.

The 2008 US presidential election belongs to just one man: Joe the Plumber.

Much of the credit for the smoothness of the election belongs to America's ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, who forcefully persuaded the losers not to dispute the result.

Most of Greater Manchester is controlled by the Labour party, and is generally considered a Labour stronghold, with only four constituencies (since the 2010 general election) belonging to the Liberal Democrats, and two constituencies to the Conservative party.

By comparison, the GOP's best presidential scores among whites in the last five elections belong to the elder Bush (60% against Dukakis) and George W. Bush (58% against John Kerry).

The United Progressive Alliance (of which INC is the biggest member) fielded 541 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections; 465 belonged to INC and the rest were fielded by the other members of the UPA.

The election officials, who all belonged to parties opposed to Mr. López Obrador, rejected calls for a complete recount and strictly interpreted the law to limit the number of ballot boxes reopened.

The top two vote-getters would then face each other in the general election, even if they belonged to the same party.The theory is that Proposition 14 will help, or at least stop penalising, moderate politicians, since all candidates would have to appeal to voters across the spectrum from the start of their campaigns.

The two most powerful men in America are black, two of the last three Secretaries of State were black, numerous corporate CEOs and other executives are black, and minorities of many races now win state-wide elections in states that belonged to the Confederacy, but the AG implies that Jim Crow is on the cusp of a comeback.

Why does so much about the general election seem to belong to a bygone era?