Sentence examples for round of counting from inspiring English sources

Following a second round of counting there, Conservative Chris Morgan beat off Labour's Eddie Darke to take the mayor's office by 26,083 votes to 24,531.

[Next page.] By the end of the week, canvassing boards in about a dozen Republican-leaning counties had reconvened for a second round of counting.

For voters, that means if the eliminated candidate was your first choice, then your second-choice vote will be applied in the next round of counting.

By the end of the week, canvassing boards in about a dozen Republican-leaning counties had reconvened for a second round of counting.

Dissenting Cambridge fellows nominated their own candidate, Michael Mansfield, a senior lawyer.In the event Lord Sainsbury, whose business and political connections mean he is well qualified to act as the university's figurehead, carried the day with 52% of the 5,558 votes cast, obviating the need for a second round of counting under the rules of the single transferable vote.

After the latest round of counting in Palm Beach, Mr. Gore appeared to take a net gain of some 55 votes, according to a tally by The Associated Press, narrowing Mr. Bush's lead to 288 votes out of some six million cast statewide, with overseas absentee ballots due at the end of the week yet to be counted.

Since then, both sides have been preparing for what they hope will be the final round of vote counting.

The weakest candidates are eliminated first; several rounds of counting are then required to assign the votes of the eliminated candidates to those still in the running.

Watching from the back, near the tea urn and trestle-table piled with leaflets, Bagehot wondered if the AV demonstration had not misfired: after four rounds of counting, victory went to Meat Feast, presumably annoying quite a few in the room, starting with the vegetarians.

In local elections, where most councils have 40 seats and Belfast has 60, many more rounds of counting will take place to decide the outcome.

With the first round of votes counted, Mr Livingstone's share of the vote was around 41%, according to preliminary findings of a BBC TV exit poll, not enough to win outright on what was a low turnout in the capital, barely 30%.