Sentence examples for election short from inspiring English sources

The Conservatives could emerge from the election short of a majority and dependent on the Liberal Democrats' support to govern.

The polling analyst John Curtice suggested the results would translate into 301 Tory MPs in a general election, short of a majority, with Labour on 253.

A good result for the party, for example retaining all or most of these, would give it a bloc which could interest Labour or the Conservatives – should either emerge from the election short of seats to provide a working majority.

That began to change when Labor's Victorian preference strategy at the 2004 federal election short-circuited, putting Steve Fielding of Family First into the Senate at the expense of the Greens.

Her ruling coalition emerged from elections short of a parliamentary majority, and she handed out a raft of plum ministerial jobs to satisfy allies.

If health reform does not pass, the only way Democrats have a shot at avoiding massive losses in this year's congressional elections (short of, that is, the unemployment rate suddenly falling to 6.0percentt) is to paint Republicans as even more despicable then Democrats are to the electorate right now.

It makes this election a short election, the shorter this election in the fall, the better off we are, not the worse".

With Mr. Day having lost his main issue, Mr. Chretien then called a snap election, cutting short his second five-year term at three and a half years, the shortest term for a Canadian majority government since 1911.

Time to upgrade voting machines before this year's presidential election is short, but it is not yet too late.

Without it, we will live for many years with only the Tories capable of winning an election; in short, a one-party state.

September 2013 Won 4.7% of the vote in the 2013 federal election, falling short of the 5% threshold needed to enter the Bundestag.