Sentence examples for election runoff from inspiring English sources

When Afghanistan's Independent Election Committee (IEC) announced on Monday the preliminary results of the presidential election runoff, we Afghan people saw our worst fear materialize before our eyes.

Republican Tom Graves has been elected to the U.S. House in a special election runoff in Georgia.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Michel Martelly, the presumed president-elect of Haiti, said Wednesday that his landslide showing in an election runoff was actually stronger than was indicated by results released Monday.

The presidential election runoff is scheduled to go ahead Saturday and Sunday.

The Maldives supreme court has postponed Sunday's presidential election runoff by six days, setting the stage for a constitutional crisis.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are the two candidates in the French presidential election runoff on Sunday 7 May.

Another is that primary election runoffs, which have historically been about five weeks after primary elections, will now fall much later.

In an effort to make it easier for military and overseas voters to take part in elections, lawmakers may have killed turnout in primary election runoffs in Texas and increased the electoral power of organized groups like the Tea Party.

On the other hand, Mr. Macron single-handedly created from scratch an entirely new political movement (En Marche) which he rode to victory in the presidential election runoffs.

The celebrated French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy has made an impassioned plea to voters to reject "far-right louts" in Sunday's local elections runoffs.

If no candidate receives a majority vote in a presidential election, a runoff election (ballotage) is held to decide between the two leading candidates.