Sentence examples for polls taking place from inspiring English sources

"We therefore believe that a referendum on an issue as important as the UK's membership of the European Union should not be held on the same day as the other polls taking place on 5 May 2016".

The main contestants in the presidential election (there are also local and parliamentary polls taking place on Saturday), are the incumbent, Ernest Bai Koroma, and the man standing for the largest opposition party, Julius Maada Bio.

After winning the title of "Player of the Millennium" from Reading in 1999, he was voted the top "all-time cult hero" for both Reading and Cardiff in a 2004 BBC poll; with similar polls taking place at each Premier League and Football League club, he was the only player to appear in the top three for two different sides.

Both polls took place as Labour's Scottish leader Johann Lamont resigned after a bitter internal feud.

Polls take place on December 9th for the mayorships of the island's two most important cities, Taipei and Kaohsiung.

If and when the polls take place, the rival armies are supposed to remain in place but they will be armed.

Ms Suu Kyi, who won elections in 1990 but was never allowed to govern, was still confined to her lakeside home when the polls took place.

They want to set up an unelected "people's council" to implement still-undefined changes to completely remove Yingluck's family influence from politics before any polls take place.

"The general body also discussed the International Olympic Council's [sic] statement that the elections were null and void and wish to clarify that the polls took place with a well laid-out procedure and there is nothing to believe otherwise," the group stated.

In a report explaining its proposal, the monitoring office cited Western assessments that the 2007 parliamentary polls "took place in an atmosphere which severely limited political competition and with frequent abuse of administrative resources," with both the news media and the election code supporting the governing party.

Somehow, Sanders received an enormous amount of online votes from members who had to be registered with these organizations before the polls took place.