Sentence examples for main election issues from inspiring English sources

Lost jobs, the economy and security were the main election issues as the trade-dependent city state of four million people suffers its worst downturn since 1964.

One of the main election issues was rank-and-file discontent with the one-year pay freeze in the three-year contract negotiated last December.

What were the main election issues?

The main election issues were how to tackle an expected economic slowdown, whether to keep the Labor-introduced carbon tax, and how to reduce the number of migrants arriving from Asia by boat.

He has made this his main election issue, but he is playing with the talks.

Exit polls also indicate that many voters (some 62%) see the troubled economy as the main election issue.

The PAN has made its main election issue the president's popular if not yet successful battle with drug-trafficking gangs.

The main election issue is the fate of the Avtovaz car plant, maker of the once ubiquitous Lada and a symbol of withered Soviet industrial muscle.

Wilders, the anti-Islam and anti-EU populist, has already pledged to make Europe the main election issue, announcing he will not agree to cut Dutch pensions to suit "diktats from Brussels".

Removing these – by Danish standards – low benefits (so-called poverty benefits) was a main election issue for these three parties.

Terence Brown, 76, leant on a wall outside the church as he told VICE News that he thought the main general election issue was poverty.