Sentence examples for turnout in the contest from inspiring English sources

Turnout in the contest was about 600,000 voters, a significant increase from the roughly 450,000 who voted in the state in 2008.

"And there will still be a headline: 'So-and-so has won Florida.' " There has also been a flood of early ballots from Republican voters, which has, again, already exceeded the turnout in the contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.

Turnout in the Virginia contests was low.

We expect that turnout in these contests will once again be relatively low.

Neither has electrified the contest: turnout in the first round was dismal.

This was a greater decrease than in 2007, when, among wards with runoffs, turnout in the average second round contest dropped by about 10percentt.

It may be tempting to directly overlay Iowa's turnout onto the 2008 turnout to project overall turnout in the coming presidential nomination contests.

Turnout was just over 50% in the contest, triggered by MP Mark Reckless's defection from the Conservatives to UKIP.

FiveThirtyEight examined turnout in the first four Republican nominating contests and found it to be lagging, particularly among self-identifying Republicans (rather than among voters registered as Republicans, some of whom do so temporarily for the primary).

Given the tiny turnout in Labour contests – a mere 8% of its union members voted in the 2007 deputy leadership contest – it means that historically small numbers can shape the outcome.

In 2012, only around 8% of the state's eligible GOP caucus-goers participated in the contest – and on turnout that low a surprise is possible.