Sentence examples for election the difference from inspiring English sources

In a close election, the difference between a quarter and a third can be critical.

When Jeremy stood for the leadership after the disaster of the 2015 election, the difference was palpable.

the most comprehensive effort yet by a think tank of any ideology to bridge what was the most glaring economic policy divide of the 2012 election: the difference between how often candidates promised to restore middle-class prosperity and how rarely they offered detailed proposals to accomplish that.

Unlike the primary battles where candidates fought over the same ground, in this election the differences are clear.

But in past presidential elections, the difference has been relatively small — favoring the Republican candidate by about 1.5 percentage points, on average.

Conservative members "did less on almost every count than their counterparts in other parties" to help their party during last year's general election and the difference was "particularly marked" for use of social media, the report said, which may help to explain Labour's "surprisingly impressive performance".

A Whig chant from the time of the election exhibited the difference between candidates: Old Tip he wore a homespun coat, he had no ruffled shirt: wirt-wirt, But Matt he has the golden plate, and he's a little squirt: wirt-wirt!

In the 2000 election, the vote difference nationwide was only a few percentage points.

In contrast, at the 2010 election, the main difference between Mike Rann and then Liberal leader, Isobel Redmond, was whether to build a new, or refurbish the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Opponents of the measure say that a proportional distribution would make Colorado even less relevant than it is now in presidential elections, since the difference between winning and losing might just be one electoral vote.

"I think any American that is LGBT, or loves someone who is LGBT, or supports someone who is LGBT, has only one choice in this election, because the differences between these two candidates on that issue alone are so diametrically opposed.