Sentence examples for the initial election from inspiring English sources

Voter turnout appeared low in the runoff, as it was in the initial election in February.

But the initial election results showed Mr. Chen winning with 50.1percentt; Lien Chan of the Nationalist Party had 49.9percentt, losing by fewer than 30,000 votes.

"Instead, the initial election can only be viewed as an experiment in democracy that must be re-evaluated if it is ever to confer legitimacy".

In the initial election following approval of the Group, the three members receiving the largest number of votes shall serve a two-year term, the others a one-year term.

The initial election plan, endorsed in late 2003 by Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, involved a caucus system in which the C.P.A. would be able to exert enormous influence over the selection of a transitional government.

Consider that in the election returns reported by the New York Times on Nov. 8, 2012, (which we use for the initial election night counts), nearly 118 million ballots had been counted.

At face level, Walker has indeed pulled off an impressive feat by winning three elections in the past four years – his initial election as governor in 2010, a recall election in 2012 which he survived, and re-election in 2014.

None of which is to say that Mr. Villaraigosa has recaptured the electric popularity that he enjoyed in the flush of his initial election, as a mayor of Mexican descent in a city with a vibrant and expanding population of Mexican-Americans.

George Lakoff, who advised US president Barack Obama in the runup to his initial election, wrote a book called Don't Think of an Elephant.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo was poised to win a second term Wednesday as leader of the world's most populous Muslim nation, with initial election results showing the moderate incumbent comfortably ahead of his rival, a nationalist former military general.

But I think the two most interesting cases to compare to Donald Trump's run are California's initial election of "The Governator" and Minnesota's election of Governor Jesse Ventura.