Sentence examples for poor elections from inspiring English sources

Gallup has now had three poor elections in a row.

For the Tories, this is a chance to draw a line after some poor elections and claim that UKIP have reached their high water mark.

After the PdL's poor election performance some members have been muttering that the party should now withdraw that backing.

But overall she ran a poor election, and lost much ground to the more disciplined leader of the Liberal party, Tony Abbott.

There are hopes that a poor election result will force the ruling party to focus more on promoting economic growth.

Just after the election, Robb was appointed by the Liberal party to a four-member panel to review the Coalition's poor election results.

Oosting said Ryan's comments about the influence of third-party activists were "merely an attempted diversion from the poor election performance".

In an interview on GMTV, he was asked about the prospect of a poor election result and replied: "I'll have to take responsibility.

"What continued for the Liberals, despite poor election results, was that they retained a really strong emotional connection with a large group of Canadians," Lyle said.

Indonesia's authorities again raised their estimate of those killed, bringing the total regional figure to 280,000.Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-bian, appointed a new prime minister after the cabinet resigned in the wake of a poor election result last month.

Last Sunday's poor election showing for his party, United Russia, suggests some Russian voters are cooling toward Mr. Putin, who intends to wage his own three-month campaign to return to the presidency.