Sentence examples for increased the vote from inspiring English sources

James Mitchell, a professor of government at Strathclyde University, says that, whereas Catholic fear of Protestant domination slightly increased the vote against devolution in the 1979 referendum on a Scottish assembly, no such effect could be detected in last month's devolution referendum.

He found that "the policy increased voter turnout by 24 percentage points which in turn increased the vote shares and seat shares of the Labor Party by 7 10 percentage points".

The ones drawn by the lower court, a special three-judge federal court in San Antonio, increased the voting power of Hispanic voters and seemed to help Democratic candidates.

Parliament also recently increased the voting age to 16 from 15, eliminating an estimated 1.5 million young people who might have voted for the liberals from the voter lists.

"We're hoping to increase the vote to more than 75,000," Mr. Coleman said.

The United States endorsed both the interim step of increasing the vote share of some countries as well as the broader effort.

Even we increase the vote grab to 50%, the Tories still lose only seven seats and still form a majority government.

This week's issue of Kommersant Vlast had several articles detailing bald attempts at falsification in the recent elections apparently aimed at increasing the vote for United Russia.

But he leaves largely unexamined another significant and not politically neutral effect of these laws: compulsory voting increases the vote share of parties whose voters would otherwise tend to abstain.

Democrats said that bit of arcana meant that more ballots in the heavily Democratic county could be considered in the recount, possibly increasing the vote for Vice President Al Gore.

She is "passionate about increasing the vote" and, although there isn't much backing from the party (just a couple of thousand leaflets), she "wants people in Bootle to have more of a choice in who they can vote for".