Sentence examples for electoral strengths from inspiring English sources

From 1959 to 2003 the party composition of the Swiss executive remained the same, despite the shifting electoral strengths of the parties.

Optimists in the yellow camp say these will showcase the party's enduring electoral strengths: determined local campaigning, the ability to mobilise a tactical anti-Tory vote, and the incumbency factor.

Still, the Brotherhood has played down its electoral strength before.

The SDLP's considerable electoral strength allowed it to veto any proposed constitutional change.

Like his nationalist friends in England, Trump draws his electoral strength from older, whiter voters.

He owes much of his electoral strength in the north to the Northern League, a separatist-leaning party led by Umberto Bossi.

International observers, who are concentrated in Tehran, may have overestimated the electoral strength of Mir Hussein Moussavi, the reformist candidate.

But polls show that Mr. Bush's greatest electoral strength against Mr. Kerry remains his record on fighting terrorism.

Fund-raising success is not always an accurate predictor of electoral strength, as Howard Dean's failed candidacy showed in 2004.

And here's why: much of Barack Obama's electoral strength, and by extension the national strength of the Democratic party, now lies with the western states.

His electoral strength in a left-leaning state has always come from seeming independent, reaching out to Democrats and Republicans alike.