Sentence examples for round for a candidate from inspiring English sources

Candidates get an equitable amount of airtime, mercifully limited by law; the two-round voting system means that small-party candidates enjoy greater legitimacy and influence, and that those citizens who voted in the first round for a candidate who doesn't make it to the second can still cast their ballot for a finalist, rather than for a protest candidate.

For downstream venture fund investors, it means better capitalized seed round and Series A candidates with more progress and traction.

In a contested convention, thousands of delegates would be on the floor voting through multiple rounds for a nominee as the candidates duke it out to win states to their side.

Such barbs could force Mr. Bloomberg onto the defensive, but they could also provide an important preliminary round for a first-time candidate in advance of the general election.

To qualify for the second round, a candidate must come first or second or secure the ballots of at least 12.5% of registered voters a hurdle the far right thought it would leap with some ease following Mr Le Pen's presidential scores.

Where the pub comes into supporting UKIP is that we have agreed to let them use the pub one evening to invite all the local candidates round, for a meet and greet session.

Investors who had been expecting a second round for a pair of more market-friendly candidates were disconcerted by the strength shown by Mr. Kirchner, the little-known Peronist governor from Patagonia with the populist image.

"There is no legal provision for a candidate to pull out between two rounds," Mr. Bick said.

When a candidate is defeated by being the lowest vote getter in a given round, each ballot cast for a candidates is redistributed to other candidates according to the voter's preferences.

If they wished to halt the march of the Islamists, secular-minded Turks could do it themselves, by plumping in the second round for avowedly secular candidates.Many Turks may approve of the generals' threats.

Although Le Pen did not earn a place in the second round, she won 18percentt of the vote, the highest-ever first-round total for a National Front presidential candidate.