Sentence examples for first time elections from inspiring English sources

For the first time, elections were held for county and municipal officials on the same day as the national vote.

For the first time, elections to these bodies presented voters with a choice of candidates, including noncommunists, though the Communist Party continued to dominate the system.

And it was the first time elections were held - the first stirrings of the House of Commons we know today.

Now this is hardly the first time election promises have been broken.

For the first time, election campaign recordings can be posted as long as they are not "dramatized" or published "out of context".

Second-time elections often benefited centrist and populist parties anxious to jump start economic growth.

Page A4 ELECTION DRAWS OBSERVERS A small army of first-time election observers fanned out across Russian polling places, and hundreds of thousands of citizens watched ballot boxes via a vast network of Web cameras, in what amounted to a huge experiment in public scrutiny of the voting process.

The German case illustrating the changing European base line on national identity comes alongside the attempts of traditional Dutch middle-ground parties to form a minority government dependent on support from the anti-immigrant Freedom Party, or the like-minded Sweden Democrats' first-time election into the Swedish Parliament this past weekend.

MOSCOW — A small army of first-time election observers fanned out across Russian polling places, and hundreds of thousands of citizens watched ballot boxes via a vast network of Web cameras on Sunday, in what amounted to a huge experiment in public scrutiny of the voting process.

Prime Minister David Cameron said low turnout in a first-time election was expected.

From that moment, for the first time, Presidential elections would be truly national.