Sentence examples for last election held from inspiring English sources

No one seemed to remember the last election held in Afghanistan -- a parliamentary vote in 1969 in which only 7percentt of the population took part.

A Conservative backbencher points admiringly to Gisela Stuart, a Labour MP who at the last election held a seat in Birmingham that "should be Tory", thanks to her independent reputation and strong local campaign.

The junta ignored the results of the last election, held in 1990, in which its proxy party was badly defeated by the party of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader.

If the last election is anything to go by, there will be plenty of opportunity for those looking to make money on foreign-exchange markets, which remain open throughout the night.A key lesson from the last election, held on May 6th 2010, is that exit polls matter.

One study shows that in 2002, the last election held without a public financing option, 73percentt of all judicial contributions came from special interests and attorneys.

He bucked the trend in the last election holding onto his north Nottingham suburban seat with a majority of 1,859.

Most probably, however, the generals will find a pretext to disqualify them.The NLD convincingly won the last elections, held in May 1990, taking more than 80% of the seats.

Women hold just over 2percentt of the seats in Egypt's new parliament, down from about 12percentt in the last elections held under Mubarak.

Labour held power in Lancashire for 28 years until the Conservatives took control in the last elections held in 2009.

2008 April - In last elections held under the old constitution, pro-democracy candidates win all nine of the elected seats in the nation's parliament.

Greens hold 42 seats in the 519-member West German Bundestag, the result of a respectable 8.3% polling in the last elections held in 1987.