Sentence examples for the preceding election from inspiring English sources

Surveys began asking people how they had voted last time, so that the sample could be "politically weighted" in line with the known result of the preceding election.

Mr Estrada, a former tough-guy film star, took office in June after portraying himself in the preceding election campaign as a champion of the underdog.In this section Can they arrange a cold war?

No write-in votes are permitted, and the ballot is formed of those players who received a vote on a minimum of 5 percent of the ballots cast in the preceding election or those who are eligible for the first time and are nominated by any two of the six members of the BBWAA Screening Committee.

Instead, any strategic behavior was short-term at best, reflecting the largest party's most recent experience in the preceding election.

Through his efforts, the number of registered Democrats in Hampshire County swelled from 449 in the preceding election year to 1,369.

Kenya's most recent presidential elections in March 2013 did not exhibit the same scale of violence as the preceding elections, but violence still occurred prior to the elections, claimed over 400 lives, and displaced an estimated 118,000 persons.

In 16 of them, the [Dow Jones Industrial Average] climbed during the two months preceding election day.

However, in 9 of the 10 elections where the DJIA fell in those two months preceding election, the incumbent party lost".

Brown also signed a bill permitting county elections officials to offer conditional registration and provisional voting at satellite locations during the 14 days immediately preceding election day.

But this is what the voters elected Labour to do - not just in 2005, but in the two preceding elections.

In view of the apparently massive effects and the certainly massive expenses of political propaganda on television, there are many movements afoot in democracies to limit expenditures on campaign propaganda and to require networks to give time free of charge for even the minor parties, especially in the weeks immediately preceding elections.