Sentence examples for election to double from inspiring English sources

She became MP for Wallasey in 1992, where she remains a popular MP, bucking the national trend at the last election to double her majority to more than 16,000.

"It's not our fault he has decided to abandon the few sensible things the Tory party stood for". Mr Farage said his target in this year's local elections was to double the party's share of the vote in contested seats to 20%.

The amount of money amassed this election is expected to double the total from eight years ago.

One of Obama's election pledges was to double foreign assistance, which clearly included "strategic financing" for countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Latino electorate, which cast ballots in record numbers in the 2012 presidential election, is expected to double within a generation.

A Change.org petition calling for election officials to double-check the results via a risk-limiting audit is circulating online.

She also called it onerous for the state's 67 election supervisors to double-check the federal database, which they can now do, and then make the final determination on a person's citizenship status.

To finance this, they almost doubled VAT – from 8%to15%5%, thereby not quite reneging on a pre-election promise not to double VAT.

After the election, he has plans to double down on austerity, to target the poor and to shrink the state.

The Conservative campaign strategy included the election itself, engineered through the Fair Elections Act to allow them to double their spending by doubling the duration.

The nationalist SD doubled its seats in the 2014 election and it is predicted to double them again on Sunday.