Sentence examples for valid votes cast from inspiring English sources

The party's national lawmakers and prefectural chapters handed Mr. Fukuda 330 of 527 valid votes cast.

Harvey won eight of the 19 valid votes cast, one more than Bristol City's Colin Sexton.

Mrs. Gandhi won 7,448 of the 7,542 valid votes cast by party delegates.

Those results show Mr. Karzai with 3,009,559 out of 5,545,149 total valid votes cast.

It said Amani Karume polled 67percentt of the 370,095 valid votes cast and was "the legitimate president".

This draft, approved in a referendum in September by 79 percent of the valid votes cast, embodied de Gaulle's conceptions of how France should be governed.

In the 2008 New Zealand general election, 54.8% of valid party votes cast in Caversham's two polling stations were for the Labour Party and 10.4% were for the three other main left-of-centre parties (Green, Alliance, and Progressive).

In a run-off election, or in an election with only two candidates, if neither of the candidates have platforms that are attractive enough, it is possible that neither one wins more than half of the total votes cast, including valid ballots of abstention.

The recall requirements, too, are grueling: organizers must gather 540,208 valid signatures (a quarter of the votes cast in last fall's election for governor) within 60 days of their Nov. 15 start.

Voters there cast their vote by using a machine that punches a hole through the paper next to the candidate's name.Of the 462,000 votes cast, only 432,000 were found valid when the results were first counted by machine.

We believe this is a good principle that should be extended to require that the CE elected by universal suffrage must also receive half of the total votes cast in that election (including valid ballots in which the voters abstain from voting for any of the candidates, in effect, voting for "none of the above").