Sentence examples for voting advantage from inspiring English sources

And electoral abuses like gerrymandering have continued, critics said, including when state Republican leaders helped ensure that a white state senator, Guy J. Velella, held his seat in an overwhelmingly Democratic Bronx in 2002 by redrawing his district to maximize his voting advantage.

He was threatened with prosecution after the end of his tribunate, when he would have no formal means of protecting his law and would be liable to prosecution before the Centuriate Assembly, in which the wealthier classes had a voting advantage.

He eked out a 200-vote advantage only after paper ballots were counted.

The initial unofficial tally of 117,000 votes cast showed Ms. Krueger with a 151-vote advantage over Mr. Goodman, above.

That was down from the 151-vote advantage she had in the first results, which were unofficial.

The party gained its one-vote advantage last year when Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party to become an independent.

Pollster, on the other hand, has Mr. Obama with 270 electoral votes, a 79-vote advantage over Mr. Romney and already enough for a second term.

Ed Morrissey of the Hot Air blog estimates that Mr. Romney has already banked a 37,000-vote advantage based on this early balloting.

Ignoring the voters who chose "uncommitted" in Michigan, where he was not on the ballot, Mr. Obama has a 230,000 vote advantage.

Though the Democrats have a 60-40 vote advantage in the Senate, and President Obama supports the measure, several moderate Democrats opposed the card-check provision as undemocratic.

Mr. Romney got 13,642 more votes than Mr. Gingrich in the Iowa caucuses, and 74,121 more votes in the New Hampshire primary, giving him an 87,763-vote advantage heading into tonight.