Sentence examples for electoral expectations from inspiring English sources

Mr. O'Donnell said he believed that Democratic electoral expectations in the West were overblown and that even if Democrats did have some success, Republicans would quickly recover.

So at this year's version of the enormous convention in National Harbor, Maryland, the focus will be on how the Republican party should proceed this year in meeting electoral expectations and managing the rest of the year's legislative agenda.

And it should make us understand that whether the changes in the rhetoric and style of the past 15 months will continue to translate into real foreign policy changes will be determined by the hard calculations of political incumbency, electoral expectations, and national cost-benefit analyses rather than personal sentiment, or a commitment to ethics, justice, or the international rule of law.

With nearly two-thirds of eligible voters casting ballots and braving violence, Iraq's electoral process defied expectations.

Online registration is an important first step in addressing the disconnect between electoral technology and voters' expectations.

The Associated Press tried to reach all 538 electors, and interviewed more than 330 of them, finding widespread Democratic aggravation with the electoral process but little expectation that the hustle of anti-Trump maneuvering will derail him.

As the government began to collapse, Quisling's personal popularity reached new heights; he was referred to as "man of the year", and there were expectations of forthcoming electoral success.

A veteran leftist who unexpectedly became Labour leader in 2015 on a wave of grassroots enthusiasm, but was seen by most of his own party's lawmakers as an electoral no-hoper, Corbyn beat expectations with a well-run campaign of striking policies.

The success of so divisive a figure as Trump has raised in some quarters the expectation of an electoral map with a very different configuration of red and blue states.

The party high command is studiously playing down expectations for the next electoral contest, May's local elections, and perhaps with good reason: in some areas, it is proving hard to find candidates even for winnable seats.

While the left lost control of what's widely-seen as the country's second-most important political office, a rightwing movement started by popular former president Alvaro Uribe fell short of expectations in its first regional electoral test.