Sentence examples for vote spread from inspiring English sources

With, for instance, 20 percent of the popular vote spread evenly over an entire country, such a party would not win a single seat.

Officers with riot shields and helmets charged at the protesters as tensions ran high after news of the government's victory in the vote spread through the crowd.

As the right to vote spread wider, the opportunity of using the press to sway opinion and thus dictate the course of events grew with it.

As news of the vote spread, pro-independence Catalans cheered and sang in the streets of Barcelona, and the Spanish flag was removed from public buildings across the province.

As concern about the vote spread among Western governments, the European Union's 27 member states planned to issue a joint call on Iran to clarify the election outcome, Reuters reported.

Under the French electoral system, unless one candidate gets a majority of the votes in the first round, on April 21, there will be a runoff between the top two on May 5. "We are strong in the big cities, and after the last municipal elections, our vote spread everywhere," Mr. Mamère said.

José Luis Centella, an IU deputy, says these regional deals cannot be extrapolated to national politics.With future votes spread so widely, dealmaking will decide elections.

According to Frey's third scenario, "Obama squeaks by with 292 electoral votes spread among 24 states," but his victory depends on winning by very slim margins in four key states — Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Oregon — which together have 66 electoral college votes, far more than enough to tip the contest to Romney if they go the other way.

Viseguy's entry, which won the Readers Choice Crushed Fedoraa with 78 out of the 600 votes spread among 28 finalists, went like this: If cloth could kill, there'd be a special closet on death row for the dress that Hannah wore the morning she dumped me.

Misinformation regarding the date and location for voting spread extensively online.

They contend that the large pool of 122 million votes spread across the country would make a close or fraudulent outcome much less likely than under the current system, in which the national winner may be determined by an extremely small vote margin in any one of the fifty-one stalliese tallies.