Sentence examples for previous election's from inspiring English sources

For her nominating petition, she needed signatures from five per cent of the previous election's voters, which amounted to two or three people.

The GCP prediction for this momentous event was set for the 24 hour period beginning at 15:00 Eastern time (20 00 UTC) on November 6th, following the previous election's specification exactly.

But the turnout figure announced by Mr. Kablia, 42 percent — ostensibly up from the previous election's 35 percent — did not square with numerous reports of sparse turnout and empty polling places in much of the country.

J. Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican who was the secretary of state at the time, unsuccessfully defended rules requiring parties to have received at least 5percentt of the popular vote in the previous election or to gather, one year before the general election, valid signatures equaling at least 1percentt of the previous election's turnout, about 40,000 signatures to qualify for the 2008 ballot.

Fact: In a previous election cycle Joe's adversary for the Council seat accepted $80,000 from Chevron and voted against State Assembly bills to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite low turnout last weekend relative to previous elections, Taiwan's Cross-Strait Policy AssociaTsai attributed Tsai's victory to her capture of this pivotal demographic.

That's what we've learned about New Hampshire from a few previous election cycles – the state's voters love a surprise delivery or two.

Mr Clegg, who went into the previous election as his party's great strength, has a rating of minus 36.

Even in safer times, most do not bother with it: 41% of voters turned out in the country's previous election in 2002.

"How could it not?" An examination of Mr. Bloomberg's previous election results, and the bonuses that followed, suggests that they may have reason to be nervous.

Where previous election histories — notably Theodore H. White's "Making of the President" series — had focused on the process of campaigns, Mr. Cramer trained a magnifying glass on the psyches of the candidates themselves.