Sentence examples for electoral primary from inspiring English sources

Not quite an electoral "primary" -- the al-Sadr forces prefer bullets to ballots -- but the result was political.

In the current electoral system, primary elections are held in September and the winners face the candidates of other parties in the general election two months later.

Several sources were used to ascertain as complete a sample of eligible older people as possible; the New Zealand General and Māori electoral rolls, primary care databases through PHOs and General Practice (GP) databases.

Under the current electoral calendar, the primary is set for Sept. 10.

For 30 years before the Civil War, the group had rejected both war and electoral politics as primary means with which to pursue abolition.

However, the primary electoral promise that propelled Pérez to victory was the signing of Luís Figo from arch-rivals Barcelona.

WASHINGTON -- Nearly half a year into his second run for the White House, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has yet to clear his primary electoral hurdle.

Multistage cluster sampling was applied to stratified lists of areas in order to arrive at a systematic probability sample of addresses within electoral wards as primary sampling units.

Though there is some adverse precedent on the books, e.g. Rosario v. Rockefeller, 410 U.S. 752 (1973)(upholding New York's exclusionary election rules for "preservation of the integrity of the electoral process"), closed primaries likely would not satisfy modern concepts requiring strict scrutiny of First Amendment violations.

It is not as big an electoral prize in the primary, but Colorado is one of the few states voting on Tuesday that is a genuine "purple" state in national elections, ie it could swing Republican or Democrat.

The Republican Establishment is running a group of exceptionally weak candidates in this electoral season's presidential primary.