Sentence examples for votes in the initial from inspiring English sources

He had been considered Sheik Sharif's main rival for the presidency, but he withdrew after winning only 59 votes in the initial round.

With 24 votes required, Mr. Amano took 23 "yes" votes in the initial Friday poll on his candidacy, and in a later round received 22 affirmative votes with one abstention.

By the time officials stopped work for the night, 90 of 609 precincts had been recounted, and Vice President Al Gore, who won the county by more than 200,000 votes in the initial tally last week, had added 21 votes to that advantage.

Nor is it clear how the Florida Supreme Court could authorize a statewide recount of the undercounted ballots on the basis of statutory language that does not authorize anything other than full recounts -- counting all the ballots that were cast, whether or not they showed presidential votes in the initial machine counting.

A presidential run-off was forced after no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the initial round of voting.

Bryne had long been thought of as the favorite, and got the highest percentage of the vote in the initial primary with 35% to Young's 22%.

The review was of "undervotes" -- ballots on which machines could not discern a vote in the initial statewide count in November -- and, in far fewer cases, those that were ignored because they indicated a vote for more than one candidate.

But Georgia law requires that individuals who vote in a runoff election must be registered to vote in the initial election, Kemp spokeswoman Candice Broce said in an email.

"This was always a matter that could be prevented by state election officials ― after all, they have the records of who voted in the initial primaries and could effectively prevent such a person from voting in a runoff election.

His candidate, the Democratic incumbent, Tim Johnson, held a 527-vote edge in the initial tally over the Republican challenger, Representative John Thune, who was recruited by the White House to make the run.

Peter Ward, Co-founder, Humanity Inc. "Britons voted for Brexit in the initial referendum with inadequate and often wholly spurious information on both sides of the argument.