Sentence examples for election the second from inspiring English sources

In a runoff election, the second round of voting must be performed to elect an absolute-majority winner when no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes in the first round of voting.

The attack came on the day that results were released from Rwanda's presidential election, the second since the end of the genocide here.

14 December – After the Muslim Brotherhood took 47 per cent of the seats in November's election, the second of three rounds of voting begins.

On February 17th, British Somaliland had a general election, the second ever held in the protectorate, and a party of swift change won a decisive victory.

So much money and personnel from the national parties are cascading in that Senator John B. Breaux, the state's senior Democrat, calls the election "the second Louisiana Purchase".

On the eve of the election, the second in less than two months, a leading euro zone official bluntly warned voters on the perils of voting for the far left.

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

For this November's election, the second-largest oil company on Earth officially spent $3.1m to defeat McLaughin and other progressive candidates and install a mayor and council more to its liking.

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

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

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