Sentence examples for extra elections from inspiring English sources

But it would also open Mr. Christie to accusations that he was wasting some $24 million in taxpayer money by holding those two extra elections ahead of the regular November balloting for self-interested political reasons.

The Brooklyn Republican chairman, Craig A. Eaton, had urged Mr. Cuomo to set the special election for April 24, the date of New York's presidential primary election, saying such a move would save taxpayers the cost of an extra election.

But instead he plans to call an "extra" election on March 22nd.Such high political drama is rare in Sweden, where advance negotiations before parliamentary votes normally mean the budget passes with little fuss.

Daniel DeFrancesco, the executive director of the board, said yesterday that he had asked Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to provide five more optical ballot scanners, higher salaries for the 30,000 ballot workers needed on Election Day, and 218 extra election workers to help the 312 on staff.

Wesson ruled out a special election last month, in part to spare taxpayers the extra cost.

In a new book he claims Brown directed a financially desperate party to spend £1.2m on the election, including 1.5m leaflets, car hire, computers, extra phone lines, election software, preparation of an election grid and booked billboard space.

It was a great idea and should definitely be introduced to give that something bit extra to local elections".

Or not, given that it also needs the resources to monitor mayoral elections, extra levels of collaboration between councils and the Environment Agency, as well as the implications of giving councils greater powers over business rates while still, presumably, retaining some sort of safety net for poor areas.

Weekly newspapers carry extra pages of election coverage.

In films, as in elections, extras are not an option.

An extra hour of election coverage at 11 p.m. drew 2.6 million viewers, up from the time period's average of 1.5 million.