Sentence examples for vote picking from inspiring English sources

In Queensland four months earlier – its first real electoral test – it won an astonishing 22.68% of the vote, picking up 11 seats.

"The argument is that a good citizen should have to make an effort to vote, picking up a postcard posted to them weeks before and dragging themselves down to an empty community hall or primary school on a wet Thursday to put a cross on a tiny piece of paper," he said.

We discuss and vote, picking three (in a recent week, the top stories were Syria, the death penalty, and Miley Cyrus's twerk moment).

Brown finished third in the Wisconsin primary -- with 12percentt of the vote, picking up his only national convention delegate of the campaign -- and ended his candidacy.

Late in the campaign, there was some speculation that Fisher may have been a closer contest than commentators initially expected, but Such comfortably defeated Labor's Amanda Rishworth and the Liberals' Andy Minnis with an independent candidate election best 45.2 percent of the primary vote, picking up a 4.6 percent two candidate preferred swing.

If the popular vote picked the president, the Bush camp would be demanding recounts everywhere.

But what was more important is simply that a higher share of the minorities who did turn out to vote picked Mr. Obama as their candidate.

Support for a no vote picked up 2%, increasing to 45% in the July survey, which was carried out for the Scotland on Sunday.

Several voters had gone to vote, picked the straight-ticket option — but then noticed that the box for Hillary Clinton was also checked.

Critical of the Recording Academy, King said, "Realistically, I think people on the academy who vote pick the household name.

The pro-immigration Green party, which came in second in the vote, picked up thousands of CSU voters who rejected Seehofer's platform.