Sentence examples for margin of votes from inspiring English sources

The PN was again returned to power in 2008, winning the general elections over the MLP by a small margin of votes.

With the presidency resting on such a close margin of votes in Florida, every effort must be made to conduct a fair and accurate count of the ballots.

The presidency of the United States could be determined here by a margin of votes counted not by machines, but by people.

We have a presidential election where the margin of votes is one one-thousandths of a percent, but the machines have a much greater chance than that of making a mistake".

The predicted second round will probably be decided by a slim margin of votes on issues unrelated to the legalisation of the sale of marijuana that has drawn so much international attention, according to local observers.

It refers to using technology to educate people, which is different".The rising margin of votes (at least as I write, early on Monday morning) against the motion suggests, however, that the difference is either not perceived, or not accepted, by the majority of our voters.

In 1858, Constable ran in a special election to fill a vacant seat of the Illinois Supreme Court, but was defeated by Pinckney H. Walker by a vote margin of 229 votes to 95.

In New Mexico, the state's five electoral votes are currently heading to Mr Gore by a margin of 375 votes (out of 571,000 votes cast).

His extraordinarily slim margin of victory 87 votes out of 988,000 votes cast earned him the nickname "Landslide Lyndon".

By a margin of 55 votes out of 2,500 votes cast, Woodson was beaten by Peyton Manning for the Maxwell Award.

The latest results from Tuesday's election contined to show Mr. Gore with a lead in the nationwide popular vote, by a margin of 218,441 votes.