Sentence examples for swing elections from inspiring English sources
"swing elections" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an election in which a small number of votes can change the overall outcome. For example, "The close margins suggest that this is going to be a swing election."
Political scientists are sceptical about the extent to which debates swing elections.
But elsewhere in the country, self-identified religious conservatives are insufficiently numerous to swing elections.
We read a lot these days about "grey power", the realisation that pensioners can swing elections.
All prime ministers think the Post can swing elections, he'd said; they think that we decide their fate.
That agenda may also be appealing to political independents, whose impatience for results drove the swing elections of 2006, 2008 and 2010.
And with only 5m Jewish-Americans, depending on how they are counted, they routinely swing elections in only a few places, of which Florida is the most important.
Why compromise when unilateral control over the government is a single swing election away?
So I have more reason than most to think higher education funding swings elections.
The treatment of refugees has long been a divisive issue in Australian politics and has swung elections in the past.
The influx of boat people, which has swung elections in the past, has rattled the government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd a year before another election.
Unlike both, he embodies the kind of voter who swings elections in America — not a Mormon businessman or a cowboy-booted Texan, but a Catholic with middle-class roots born one state over from the Rust Belt.
