Sentence examples for election rising from inspiring English sources

Opinion polls in Australia were showing 26% support for Mr Assange's bid to win a seat in September's general election, rising to 40% among younger voters, he said.

The conditions that did so much to hand the Conservatives an unexpected majority in this year's general election – rising wages and house prices, zero inflation, improving prospects – all came together at a very fortuitous time.

Additionally, the high number of voters who skipped the election, rising to almost 40percentt in the voting on Sunday, meant that more people skipped the balloting than voted for any single political party.

That raised the prospect that the Democrats and other groups that favor open elections could take effective control of the territory's legislature as early as next fall, when the number of seats up for direct election rises to half.

Context: Ukip wins 150 local council elections, rising prominence of Nigel Farage, success of message that the government had failed to curb immigration because of EU membership and free movement of people into EU.

With participation of younger voters in both Presidential and mid-term elections rising steadily since 2002, and with the dramatic spike in the youth vote in 2008, keeping this demographic engaged during a typically depressed mid-term election year is hugely important to ensuring those new voters stay on track.

This was the day followers of Mir Hussein Moussavi, the reformist candidate defeated in Iran's disputed presidential elections, rose up en masse to protest the theft of their votes.

Their share of the vote in general elections rose from 17% to 22% between 1997 and 2005 as the electorate, relaxed about the economy, heeded their pitch on issues such as the environment and the Iraq war.

If we consider not only the ever lower turnout in EU elections but include also the many residents who have no political right to vote (people living in the EU without EU citizenship), then the absolute number of non-voters in European elections rises to 250 million adult persons who either abstained from voting or were unable to vote because they were non-EU citizens.

In the U.S., for example, the share of people who agree that it would be better to have a "strong leader" who didn't "bother with parliament and elections" rose to 32percentt in 2011 from 24percentt in 1995.

But as tensions surrounding the April national elections rise and the January 2011 referendum on independence for southern Sudan rapidly approaches, Enough and some of our partners came up with a detailed list of benchmarks we think are critically important.