Sentence examples for vote contributed from inspiring English sources

vote contributed to the loss of several Democratic seats the following year.

One of them was Deloitte & Touche, which, despite Mr. Christie's "no" vote, contributed to his failed race for the Assembly in 1995, to the campaign account he used to finance his 1994 run for freeholder (effectively helping Mr. Christie to pay back loans to himself) and to his campaign for re-election in 1997, which he lost.

Since every vote contributes to a party's quota, it makes sense to field as many candidates as possible, even though voters barely know them.

Several Rwandans recently interviewed said that they were not free to vote against him and that government officials down to the village level had put enormous pressure on them to register to vote; contribute some of their meager earnings to Mr. Kagame's campaign; and attend rallies.

A higher percentage of the Illinois popular vote contributes to a greater margin of the popular vote nationally.

The votes contributed to a brewing sense of political helplessness.

Although more people's votes contribute to the result, they do so in strange ways.

The decision helped seal the Hispanic vote and contributed to the current bipartisan push for new immigration policy.

Many observers, then and since, believed vote fraud contributed to Kennedy's victory, especially in the critical state of Illinois, where Joe Kennedy enlisted the help of the ever-powerful Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago.

When the news broke of McCain's return to Washington, one week after brain surgery, James Fallows wrote in The Atlantic about another senator who, in eerily parallel circumstances, cast a fateful vote that contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday made the astonishing claim that "millions of people who voted illegally" contributed to opponent Hillary Clinton's victory in the popular vote, following a campaign based largely on spreading conspiracy theories and claiming that the election was "rigged" against him.