Sentence examples for successive elections from inspiring English sources

Voters in this district elected four different congressmen in four successive elections in the 1970's.

Under his leadership, the tiny nation of The Gambia became one of Africa's few successful parliamentary democracies; Jawara's ruling People's Progressive Party won six successive elections (1966 , 1972 1977 , 1982 , 19871992) under completely free conditions after independence in 1965.

I wonder now if, after two successive elections of the more hardline presidential candidate (the current president having been elected with an absolute majority of votes), the North may have given up on South Korean public opinion altogether.

He has now stolen three successive elections.

Even more ambitiously, the implication is that the roles will be switched in successive elections.

He has famously played the race card at successive elections to stay in power.

Mr Blair was unique among Labour leaders in winning three successive elections.

The poll was famous because it had correctly predicted the outcome of three successive elections, from 1924 to 1932.

Every government won at least two successive elections, and most more than that, testifying to mainstream contentment.

Successive elections, mainly rigged, have endowed the country with a democratic façade that barely disguises army rule.

Under Mrs. Thatcher, the Conservative Party did indeed win three successive elections, each of which yielded a parliamentary landslide.