Sentence examples for won with a plurality of from inspiring English sources

At the stockholders meeting where the contest was settled, Mr. Young won with a plurality of 1,067,273 votes.

Under some circumstances — for instance, if the Republican presidential candidate won by an extremely slim margin, or won with a plurality of the vote because third-party candidates took some votes off the table — it's entirely possible that the Republican Party would lose the House while winning back control of the presidency.

That could have divided the Democratic and Democratically leaning votes, clearing the way for a Republican to win with a plurality of the electorate.

The board has made that even easier by adopting a system under which a candidate can win with a plurality of votes rather than having to face the No. 2 vote-getter in a runoff.

In 2012, Rangel managed to win with a plurality, gaining just 44percentt of the vote, and winning by less than 1000 votes against State Senator Adriano Espaillat.

Mr. Jackson won with a 48 percent plurality in the township of about 37,000, which had an unusually high turnout, with more than 8,000 voters.

In the Seventh District, another Republican, Charles Boustany, won with a 39percentt plurality.

Prior to the election, however, Haya de la Torre died, and Belaúnde won the election with a plurality of votes, returning to the office he held before the 1968 military coup.

The TDP, again allied with the BJP, won a plurality of seats, but the state government had been placed under national control until the division of the state was complete.

No Republican has won the presidential election in Manhattan since 1924, when Calvin Coolidge won a plurality of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 41.20%–39.55%.

Humphrey won the nomination on the first ballot, despite the fact that McCarthy had won a plurality of the primary vote.