Sentence examples for split their vote between from inspiring English sources

In Iowa, only 15 percent of voters said they considered themselves moderate on most political matters, and they split their vote between Ron Paul and Mr. Romney.

In Florida, nearly half of Republican primary voters were evangelicals, and they split their vote between Newt Gingrich and Mr. Romney.

Nonetheless, the seat is held by William McCrea, a Democratic Unionist, because nationalists split their vote between the SDLP and Sinn Fein.

Even veterans -- whom Mr. McCain had reached out to in an all-out turnout drive -- split their vote between Mr. McCain and Mr. Bush.

This gave Israelis the chance to split their vote between a mainstream candidate for prime minister and the parliamentary candidates of smaller, often ethnically or religiously based factions.

But women essentially split their vote between the parties — and that is a major challenge to the Democrats, who also failed to turn out their core voters among young people and minorities.

The eight European members of the committee are expected to split their votes between England and Germany.

Voters with some college education and those with a four-year degree split their votes between Mr. Franks and Mr. Corzine.

The Senate was evenly divided only once before, in 1881, when there were 37 Democrats, 37 Republicans and 2 independents who split their votes between the two parties.

Looking at voting patterns in the 90's, they found that overall, blacks voted for Democrats solidly -- sometimes by more than 95percentt, but that whites were readier to split their votes between parties.

That year, voters who identified themselves as Republicans split their votes between the establishment candidate, Senator John McCain, and the social conservative candidate, Mike Huckabee, who won the state on the strength of his support among independents.