Sentence examples for hold polls from inspiring English sources

The party says it won't run unless the AL agrees to hold polls under a neutral caretaker.

The junta has promised to hold polls in 2010 and return the country to semi-civilian rule.

Such a prospect seems the more likely because more electoral losses loom in several states which hold polls for state assemblies in the autumn.

Intense debate over supposed hordes of Muslim immigrant settlers from Bangladesh will also help.Assam does not have state elections until 2016, but three other states hold polls much sooner.

Some of the medium-sized states hold polls in all constituencies on the same day, but the bigger states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh are spread over five or more days.

Some states will hold polls in several phases.

Even the supposed at-risk Democratic senators in red states still hold polling leads over their presumed GOP rivals.

Elections have simply been postponed so the huge logistic and financial obstacles to holding polls can be overcome, perhaps in 2018, says Barnabé Kikaya, a presidential adviser.

Worse, the electoral timetable, with many important states holding polls between the national votes, tends to put governments into cautious, electioneering mode for much of their time in office.Yet these handicaps should not be exaggerated.

Zambia, Sudan, and Nigeria have all held polls in 2015.

One theory about its origins is that people were not paid until Fridays and so holding polls on Thursdays ensured they were not too drunk to vote.