Sentence examples for electoral legacy from inspiring English sources

The midterm elections will likely be closely contested and fuelled by heavy spending by outside interests, and the results may help to define President Obama's electoral legacy.

And although Mr Cameron leaves politics as a man who failed, in these boundary changes he may bequeath the Conservative party a lasting electoral legacy for which Tories will thank him for decades.

It viewed his departure through the prism of constituency boundary changes: "Although Mr Cameron leaves politics as a man who failed, in these boundary changes he may bequeath the Conservative party a lasting electoral legacy for which Tories will thank him for decades".

Yet Obama campaigned in the packed school gymnasium Tuesday not to celebrate the power of his electoral legacy but to fight a weakness.

Another bill has been sent to Congress to scrap Chile's stifling "binomial" electoral system, a legacy of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Before Trump can even take that oath, he will have to be elected by the electoral college, another legacy of the founding fathers.

But Mr. Bush and other G.O.P. leaders must recognize this cannot happen so long as they periodically embrace, for purposes of electoral advantage, the legacy of national division and racial oppression.

And as DeMint exits electoral politics stage right, his legacy ultimately depends on whether that difference turns out to be real or superficial — and whether the younger generation he helped catapult to prominence can prove itself more supple, creative and farsighted than its departing patron.

Democrats insist that Mr Obama wants immigration reform for his legacy, and believes the electoral mathematics of 21st century America make a deal possible.

Voters in Lesotho climbed steep hills and lined up at daybreak today to choose a Parliament under an overhauled electoral system meant to break a legacy of political unrest in this small southern African nation.

Mrs. Arroyo leaves a "legacy of widespread poverty, electoral fraud, massive corruption, human rights violation and a culture of impunity that surpasses that of the Marcos dictatorship," said Judy Taguiwalo, a professor and member of the board of regents of the University of the Philippines.