Sentence examples for fifth of voting from inspiring English sources

At Rio Tinto, a mining firm with a habit of digging holes for itself, a fifth of voting shareholders rejected its remuneration policy.

Mr Swinney took the blame himself, saying that cost overruns had forced him to make a hard choice an admirably honest but politically rash pronouncement.The curiosity is why the Scottish Tories, who were wiped out in the Westminster elections of 1997 and have managed to elect just one MP since then, are still stuck with no more than a fifth of voting intentions.

But the Constitutional Court annulled a vote held in February after anti-government protesters blocked polling places in one-fifth of voting districts nationwide.

The majority, but not the required two-thirds of voting delegates, approved the proposal.

Labour's Ian Stewart has become Salford's first elected mayor after a second round of voting.

First the courts compelled the army and police to stop the second round of voting.

The main vote containing some voter's intention can be extracted from the ticket for the first round of voting.

The International Olympic Committee eliminated Chicago in the first round of voting.

Gen. Mohammed Siad Barre, in the second round of voting.

Black turnout, though, lagged in the second round of voting.

In a runoff election, the second round of voting must be performed to elect an absolute-majority winner when no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes in the first round of voting.