Sentence examples for upcoming polls from inspiring English sources

The PR had high hopes of improving on its 2008 electoral showing in upcoming polls for the lower house.

Upcoming polls may not be very different, although Kazakhstan has made some cosmetic improvements.Presidential relatives may, anyway, be getting ready to take up the baton.

Not so if the victors are Lula and Mr López Obrador.The plethora of upcoming polls shows how routine democracy has become in this once dictatorship-ridden region.

Today, thousands of Congress party leaders and workers hoisted posters of Gandhi and shouted "We want Rahul for PM" during a meeting in Delhi to prepare for the upcoming polls.

West Bengal: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inducted eight new ministers in her cabinet Wednesday, keeping in view the upcoming polls for panchayats, or village councils, in the state, according to wire reports in The Indian Express.

Thailand's election commission has called for upcoming polls to be delayed as street battles between security forces and protesters seeking to disrupt the ballot left one police officer dead and injured nearly 100 people.

Some investors fear that the upcoming poll will encourage a bout of irresponsible populism.

Giles Ji Ungpakorn, an academic who fled to the UK when he faced lese majeste charges, said recent actions by the military were directly related to the upcoming poll.

In the politicking for the upcoming poll, there could be competition among the various factions to call for the quickest withdrawal of the Americans and other foreign forces the occupation is deeply unpopular among Iraqis.

Tall, rake-thin and bald, with a goatee beard, Parkinson said he had noticed something interesting in the way the teenage boys he teaches were treating the upcoming poll.

A secretary by training, 28-year-old Shakhnoza has a full day ahead: she must go door-to-door in her hamlet in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley to update voter lists for an upcoming poll.