Sentence examples for winner a mandate from inspiring English sources

Will turnout be high enough to give the winner a mandate, or will the loser take his or her cause to the streets?

The Washington Post/ABC News poll says that only 41percentt believe the winner "has a mandate to carry out the agenda" of his campaign.

Only by discussing these issues and presenting the electorate with a clear choice can the winners claim a mandate to induce Congress to act and provide the Senate and House with political cover to take unpopular steps.

In elections in which candidates receive well under 50% of the vote, the College can still give the winner an unmistakable mandate.

At least the party is having a proper leadership contest this time and the winner will have a mandate.

With no census figures on the population, and unexpectedly high voter registration, it will be difficult to establish confidence in the turnout rate, which would help to affirm the strength of the winner's mandate, a delegation from the National Democratic Institute said in a pre-election statement.

Then, instead of a race between the Democratic left and the Republican right — in which the whole country would lose because the winner would not have had a mandate for the real change we need — we would have had a race between the Democratic center, independents and the Republican center.

After being declared winner, Mr Ferguson, 65, said the result was "a mandate".

The surprise president-elect was not the winner of the popular vote, does not have a mandate for the change of ideals envisioned.

The winner of the 2012 election will feel like their side has been given a mandate to remake the country in its image.

But rather than a victory for pragmatism, we may well see both the winners and losers take away a very different lesson: that this election was a mandate for another shift to the right.