Sentence examples for the ballot in the first from inspiring English sources

"I don't know whether it would have gotten on the ballot in the first place," he said.

Because if you vote for a mainstream candidate who is top of the ballot in the first round, your other preferences will never be counted.

At present at many American firms, directors can be elected despite overwhelming opposition if no other candidates win more votes something that is quite common because it is hard to get onto the ballot in the first place.

Even Shirley Williams didn't quite manage that when she took Crosby with 49% of the ballot in the first flush of excitement which accompanied the 1981 birth of the SDP.

Campaigns are costly, and it costs more to put them on the ballot in the first place states have learned from California's experience that too many ballots can lead to contradictory results, such as votes for higher spending and lower taxes.

It was the failure of previous attempts to agree a coalition that sparked a re-run of the ballot in the first place, and Sunday's election resulted in no major changes.

He trails Romney badly in the first two States, and is not even on the ballot in the third, after failing to file necessary paperwork.

He chose Mr. Crowley as his successor and the party placed him on the ballot in the Seventh Congressional District, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Flushing, Woodside and Jackson Heights and a small section of the Bronx.

A straw poll in the north of Delhi, which yesterday want to the ballot in the third of nine phases of voting, suggested it would not change the way people felt.

It is less significant because Le Pen's "victory," his finishing second, ahead of Jospin — with seventeen per cent of the vote, in a field of more than a dozen candidates — and taking his place, with Chirac, as one of the two candidates on the ballot in the second round, is largely a freak result of a Presidential voting system worse even than our own.

With the support of Gusmão and the CNRT, Fretilin's candidate in the March 2017 presidential election, Francisco Guterres, captured more than 57percentt of the ballots in the first round of voting to exceed the 50percentthresholdld necessary to preclude a runoff, and he became the country's fourth president.