Sentence examples for recent elections for from inspiring English sources

But it has lost several recent elections for governor there.

Mr. Deeds still trails substantially in a state where Democrats have won recent elections for senator and governor.

The most recent elections, for the presidency and the legislature, were criticized for being unduly influenced by the Kremlin.

Indeed, they were at the 2010 general election and the more recent elections for the European parliament in 2014.

Tripura: The state set a new record by registering a 93 percent turnout in the recent elections for the state legislature, according to an IANS report on the India Today Web site.

The evening was not without the drama that has come to mark so many recent elections: For more than 90 minutes after the networks projected Mr. Obama as the winner, Mr. Romney held off calling him to concede.

In the recent election, for the first time voters in three states approved the right to gay marriage.

For instance, he readily recalled the number of voters in a recent election for county executive in Westchester County, where he lives.

In 1997, the most recent election for which voters have been sorted into ethnic groups, 85% of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis voted Labour.There are signs that this is changing.

Voters dealt the party a big defeat at the recent election for the upper house, the less-powerful chamber in the Japanese parliament.

At the recent election for the board of directors, the super voted more than 50 proxies out of a total 60 proxies voted in a 220-unit complex.