Sentence examples for electoral earthquakes from inspiring English sources

Further amplification comes from the media echo chamber as words like "triumph," "disappointment" and "momentum" transform minor tremors into electoral earthquakes.

Both are places where kinship bloc voting among Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities shored up Labour's political dominance, but where Labour suffered electoral earthquakes as a result of these communities switching their support to alternative candidates.

In Latin America and Southern Europe, electoral earthquakes have happened when centre-left parties have embraced neoliberalism.

But there's a crucial difference: Cantor's loss came in the middle of the electoral earthquakes caused by the Tea Party's incessant jackhammering away in favor of conservative ideals.

How was his promised electoral earthquake going?

Now an electoral earthquake seems to have changed all that.

Nigel Farage promised an electoral earthquake, and he has delivered one.

Notwithstanding Sunday's electoral earthquake, Japan's existential crisis is likely to continue for some time to come.

But last month's electoral earthquake was nevertheless inescapable in a complex named after John F Kennedy and situated near the Watergate building.

BRUSSELS — European policy makers should be asking themselves, "Who lost Italy?" after a grass-roots revolt against austerity, unemployment and the political elite caused an electoral earthquake in the country, the third-largest economy in the euro zone.

But these are not normal times and, after the appalling events in Spain, thinking the hitherto unthinkable suddenly seems quite a reasonable thing to do.Ministers have, of course, been quick to explain why the bombings and the electoral earthquake which followed have changed nothing here.