Sentence examples for majority of ballots from inspiring English sources

On the majority of ballots, the three came to an agreement within about a minute.

Wallace captured most of the Florida delegation because the majority of ballots was divided among 10 other candidates, all of whom were liberals of one species or another.

More people can vote yes than no, but if the proposition does not get a majority of ballots cast, then the ban will fail.

The country's Constitutional Court said Thursday that it could not certify the results of Sunday's referendum to remove the president, which initially failed for lack of sufficient turnout, even though the overwhelming majority of ballots were cast in favor.

The Murkowski campaign largely expressed confidence and satisfaction with the process and said the vast majority of ballots challenged by the Miller campaign were for minor spelling or legibility issues they believed would not ultimately cause them to be discounted.

Vermont is a progressive state from top to bottom: in 2008, two hundred and forty-seven of its two hundred and fifty-one cities and towns cast a majority of ballots for Baracitiesmand

In the end, the vast majority of the ballots -- 97percentt -- arrived before the Nov. 17 deadline.

Tom Kloet, the chief executive of the TMX Group, said during a news conference that while a majority of proxy ballots already cast favored the merger, it became apparent on Wednesday that the plan would not obtain the required two-thirds majority.

UNION BOARD APPROVES SASKIN -- With a majority of the ballots in from the National Hockey League Players Associationn's 37-member executive board, 85percentt voted in favor of Ted Saskin as executive director of the union, according to the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

West, who declared on April 10 that there were "78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party," refused to concede defeat until Nov. 20, but when he did, he gave Murphy one of the toughest jobs in Congress: representing a district that cast a majority of its ballots for the presidential candidate of the opposing party.

Although the incumbent governor of Guam, Carl T. C. Gutierrez, had received 3,050 more votes than his challenger, Joseph Ada, a former governor, the Ninth Circuit said there had to be a runoff election because Mr. Gutierrez had not received a majority of all ballots cast.