Sentence examples for the first tally from inspiring English sources

"It's feasible that a third-place candidate in the first tally can win the whole thing, and when that happens people will have a good complaint to make".

If you back the loser of the first tally, then in the subsequent tallies your second (and maybe lower) preferences will be added to that candidate's first preferences.

Because the first tally indicated that Mr. Bush won Florida by the tiniest fraction of the nearly six million votes cast, a recount was ordered under state law.

(The first tally of the Civil War dead was adjusted in the immediate postwar years when widows and orphans came looking for help).

And that tussle may well not be over yet.Ms Gregoire was not the initial winner: the first tally after the November 2nd vote put the Republican, Dino Rossi, 261 votes ahead.

A recount of the votes for president in Hawaii in 1960 found that John F. Kennedy had won the state, not Richard M. Nixon, who had been awarded the state's electors on the basis of the first tally.

Election observers cautioned that the preliminary results might not be representative of the countrywide vote, but Mr. Kenyatta's lead remained strong from the moment the first tallies came in.

But when he ended up as little more than a statistical blip in the first tallies of caucus and primary votes, he became one of the first of the White House hopefuls to fold his campaign tent.

At BJP headquarters in Mumbai, India's financial capital, confident party workers brought in ladoos -- traditional Indian sweets -- before the first tallies were released.

Presidential election votes in Florida are still being recounted, but the second tally may not end the matter.

The second tally came in stoppage time following another France corner kick.