Sentence examples for vote of less from inspiring English sources

And it is why I think that Sunday's European elections, in which I confidently expect Labour to record its first ever vote of less than 20% in a Britain-wide election in the democratic era, will be at least as massive a fact when MPs return to Westminster next week.

Ricky Muir of the Australian Motoring Enthusiast party will enter the Senate on a primary vote of less than 1%, while the mining magnate Clive Palmer will face a recount in Fairfax after beating his Liberal National party opponent Ted O'Brien by just seven votes.

Because of our electoral system, parties (like today's Conservatives) can win and govern alone on the votes of less than a quarter of the electorate.

Mr. Bradley won the votes of less than a third of those who said they had watched the televised confrontations very closely or somewhat closely, but he gained the backing of 42percentt of those who said they paid limited attention.

This was the Conservative victory in the 2015 general election, a victory secured with the votes of less than a quarter of registered voters (24.3%), and 36.9% of votes cast, thanks to a marketing campaign directed by Lynton Crosby (now a knight) and costing £15.6m.

The G.O.P. is now a conservative political organization that favors small government and abhors the expansion of the welfare state, yet it has come to rely on the votes of less affluent white voters, many of whom depend on government programs — particularly Medicaid — that would have been slashed under the Party's repeal plans.

The end result was that musician Michel Martelly was declared president-elect after receiving the votes of less than 17percentt of the electorate in the March 2011 second round.

Mitt Romney is proclaimed by all the media to have almost sewn up the Republican nomination based on the votes of less than 1% of the Republicans who went to the polls in 2008.

Even with a rule change that allowed for seven slots in the event of a vote difference of less than 2% between the sixth- and seventh-place nominees, several favorites were snubbed.

Only a small fraction of the residents actually vote — turnouts of less than 10% are not uncommon — making it easy for political blocs to gain power by collecting just a few hundred votes.

If a marker receives a cumulative vote score of less than -5, it is automatically removed from the system and only visible to its author.