Sentence examples for initial ballot from inspiring English sources

An initial ballot paper count adds up all the first preferences.

Locog chair Lord Coe has promised that two-thirds of the 1 million luckless applicants from the initial ballot will get one.

Though she defeated Heseltine in an initial ballot of Conservative M.P.s, her margin of victory wasn't large enough to avoid a second ballot.

The tickets, for people who were unsuccessful in the initial ballot, will go on sale at 6am on 24 June on a first come, first served basis.

It's almost as if the committee is trying to handicap New York on the initial ballot to compensate for the advantage the city has in the final outcome.

The remaining 1.2 million people who failed to secure a ticket in the initial ballot will then be eligible to apply for tickets during a five-day window that will open at 11am on Sunday.

Ciro Gomes, the last-place finisher in the initial balloting in Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, announced his "unrestricted and enthusiastic support" today for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the leftist Workers Partyy in a runoff scheduled for late this month.

Although the initial balloting showed Mr. Jennings winning by 106 votes, Michael Reich, the executive secretary of the Queens party, said that the party's analysis of the results found that Mr. Jennings had won by even less -- about 90 votes.

Colin Granderson, who led a team of more than 100 observers from the O.A.S. and the Caribbean Community, had conceded "irregularities" after the initial balloting but said they were not severe enough to reject the results outright, as several candidates had demanded.

It is now almost two months after the initial balloting.

When polls closed, those observers were allowed to witness the initial vote count, before the ballot boxes were sealed and sent to central collection points.