Sentence examples for small plurality from inspiring English sources

Even a small plurality of Republicans think Roe should stand.

Somehow, though, the official results gave Shevardnadze's party a small plurality.

One poll has Proposition 19 winning narrowly, another shows a small plurality against it (see chart).

It also means that a movie could win with a very small plurality — there are no runoffs in the balloting.

In February 1936 Spanish voters elected, by a small plurality, a center-left coalition of Socialists, Communists, Republicans and Anarchists.

Last month, managers were reducing risk; now a small plurality (2%) is increasing it.A net 46% of managers are overweight equities.

The victors squeaked by against multiple rivals, winning with relatively small pluralities of only about a quarter of the vote.

Then, as now, majorities in parliament have been secured on the back of small pluralities of votes when campaigns have focused on a single issue.

There are small pluralities in favor of joining the European Union in all candidate countries, but in some formerly Communist countries, like Poland, there are concerns that fewer than the necessary 50percentt of eligible voters will take part in a referendum.

But for California Democrats in 2018, the reform has another obvious vulnerability, a Death Star backdoor big enough to fly a dozen X-Wing Starfighters through: If too many candidates from one party are running in the primary, they can split their party's voters several ways and allow the other party to win the top two spots with small pluralities.

There's no "fifty-percent-plus-one" threshold in the Iowa caucuses, so winners can still be declared with small pluralities (and they often are), but after the battle royale that was the 2008 Iowa contest, we at least have all become intimately familiar with the concept of ranking preferences.