Sentence examples for general election aged from inspiring English sources

But politics rapidly began to take over, and when she stood in the 1992 general election aged 22 she was the youngest parliamentary candidate in Scotland.

This year, when we fought the general election, Harry – aged 96 – was there, manning the loudhailer on the battle bus in Marlborough.

In the general election of 1992, aged 21 – the youngest candidate in the UK – she fought the safe Labour seat of Glasgow Shettleston and came a distant second.

Will the fact that almost 50% of those who actually vote at the general election will be aged over 60 have an impact on the parties' policies on care?

After working in business and local government and after a short spell as Director of National Service in 1916 and 1917, Chamberlain followed his father, Joseph Chamberlain, and older half-brother, Austen Chamberlain, in becoming a member of parliament in the 1918 general election at age 49.

It is strikingly old: voters aged 61 and over cast 40% of all ballots in the 2012 general election (nationally, that age-group cast 30% of all votes).

The district is unusually elderly: voters aged 61 and over cast 40% of all ballots in the 2012 general election (nationally, that age-group cast 30% of all votes).

He will be 71 at the time of the next general election, but his age isn't an issue.

He found that there was indeed a positive effect from the referendum on participation in the 2015 general election – the younger age group still participated less than average, but much more than in the past and more than their counterparts in England.

At the 2010 general election, only 44 per cent of those aged 18-24 voted and 55 per cent of those aged 25-34.

In the 2010 general election just 44% of those aged between 18 and 24 voted, compared with 76% of those aged 65 and over.