Sentence examples for elections second from inspiring English sources

It's a binary business: in most elections, second place is the same as losing.

Three things might wake it up: first, a strong performance by Democrats in the mid-term elections; second, and more important, a new president.

The unexpected electoral success of the Salafis — reported to have won about 25 percent of the votes in the first round of the elections, second only to the roughly 40 percent for the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party — is terrifying Egyptian liberals and troubling the West.

In national elections, second- and third-generation Fulani pastoralists are not allowed to vote, unless locally dominant political parties see them as enhancing their electoral chances.

It was the second largest spender of anonymous outside money or "dark money"—in the 2016 federal elections, second only to the National Rifle Association.

Modern primary elections first played a role in the hotly contested Republican race in 1912.

(It's worth noting that in several of those elections, third-party candidacies made that goal even more elusive).

Seventy-seven percent of voters voted to hold legislative elections first and allow the winner to write the new constitution.

Consultative-council elections first promised in 2004 and again with royal pomp a year ago have yet to happen.

"Because the Muslim Brotherhood is ready, they want elections first," adds Osama Ghazali Harb, another reform party leader.

Both sides say they support all three, but Hamas argues that the new government should be formed first, and lead the elections process, while Fatah wants elections first.