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Discover LudwigThe word 'runoff' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to the result of an election in which a winner was not decided in the initial voting and so a second round of voting is needed. For example, "The final runoff for mayor will be held next week."
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former top adviser to Barack Obama suddenly facing a runoff for re-election, remained at the political fulcrum of a mounting campaign both on social media and the streets of Chicago, where demonstrations were planned for Saturday outside what coordinated campaigners described as mirroring a CIA "black site".
Some polls have shown that she could knock out one of the mainstream political parties and make it to the second-round runoff, as her father did in 2002 – shocking France and sparking vast street demonstrations.
Emanuel, a former chief of staff to Barack Obama who is facing the prospect of a dead-heat runoff election on 7 April, has only addressed the Homan Square allegations during comments in a brief television interview.
A beaming Duda appealed to voters for more support in the presidential runoff.
Duda's strong showing in a first round on 10 May, which helped force a runoff, has exposed a rising disillusionment with the long-ruling Civic Platform party, which Komorowski is allied with.
The exit poll predicted that no candidate would win more than 50% of the votes needed to avoid a runoff and put turnout at 49.4% of Poland's more than 30.2 million voters.
Moderate incumbent Bronisław Komorowski is almost certain to win in a second round runoff, but disillusionment with mainstream politics has seen some voters drift towards radical candidates.
In 2008, the presidency seemed in his grasp when he beat Mugabe in the first round, only to withdraw from a runoff, citing violence against supporters that left more than 200 people dead.
With the runoff vote looming on 7 April, Emanuel maintained a less than five-point lead over García in a new poll released this week.
The margin was enough to avoid a repeat of the runoff of 2008.
GBR has been subject to severe disturbances, including COTS outbreaks, mass coral bleaching and declining growth rates of coral due to increasing seawater temperatures, terrestrial runoff, tropical cyclones, and coral diseases.
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