Sentence examples for election the first from inspiring English sources

He was re-elected unopposed in the 1903 election, the first in which Victorian women were eligible to vote.

1 New Zealand Election The first woman to become the elected prime minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, has won a second term for her center-left government.

In the 1925 election, the first held under the new law, turnout soared to 91 percent.

The First Election The first statewide job Mr. Huckabee ran for was a church office.

Upon election, the first thing Michael Bloomberg declared was that New York was open for business.

The election, the first since the ouster of Ben Ali, was described by observers as free and fair.

A well-run televised debate makes people pay attention to the election: the first one in 2010 drew 10mviewers.

Both sides have turned up the stepped up rhetoric ahead of the May 23 election -- the first vote in the Horn of Africa country since 2005 when a disputed election ended with street riots and the jailing of politicians.

In London, every seat on all 32 London boroughs is up for election - the first time this has happened since the day of the 2010 general election.

Campaigning has ended in Venezuela ahead of this weekend's presidential election - the first vote in almost 20 years in which Hugo Chavez will not be a candidate.

As leader of the opposition, Mr Cameron led calls for televised debates at the 2010 general election - the first time they have been held in the UK.