Sentence examples for electoral margin from inspiring English sources

Black voters gave a broad electoral margin to Mr. Obama, but two-thirds of white and Hispanic voters voted for Mrs. Clinton.

Garfield won the election with an electoral margin of 214 to 155, but his plurality in the popular vote was a slim 9,644 (see U.S. presidential election of 1880).

As Gov. George W. Bush struggles to win a bare electoral margin, many prominent Republicans and party operatives are now questioning his strategy in the final days before the election.

Had the electoral votes been allocated by Congressional district nationwide in 2000, President Bush's electoral margin of victory would have been just over 7percentt, or eight times his take that year, according to FairVote.

Walesa was resoundingly swept into the presidency by an electoral margin of three to one.

His electoral margin was miniscule (a matter of some 80,000 votes in three key states, though he in fact lost the overall popular vote by millions more).

The simplest reason for this is that the Democrats draw their electoral margins from poor and working-class voters, but depend (like the Republicans) on financial support from the wealthy and from business.

The new president, whoever he is, will take office with the most tenuous of electoral margins, considerable public doubt that he won fairly, and a severe level of rancor on Capitol Hill.

Of course, New York's other incumbent at the time was Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had traditionally run up enormous electoral margins and was widely considered impervious to challenge -- as Tom Downey had once been.

"Syrian issues are unlikely to get most members another point or two [in electoral margins] back home.

In December 2016, the PSD returned to power on a platform of modest wage and welfare benefits coupled with family-values conservativism, garnering substantial electoral margins from its vast town and country political machine.