Use "electoral" in a sentence

1. Electoral officers were still

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2. He had risen by fair means and foul, mainly foul its true, to become Chief Justice Minister as well as adjudicator for electoral offices

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3. “We got a list you old fool, the electoral list, perfect isn’t it

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4. electoral games were in full swing

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5. Our nation‘s political leaders are not photo copies of electoral viewpoints; neither was that the original intent of representative government

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6. The Electoral College was established to accommodate National and Federal forms of government (appealing to local interests)

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7. What follows should give pause to those straddling the fence on this issue: California‘s popular vote (54 electoral votes) for example, could potentially neutralize the combined votes of Delaware (3), Maine (4), Hawaii (4), Alaska (3), New Mexico (5), Nevada (4), Utah (5), Idaho (4), Montana (3), Wyoming (3), North Dakota (3), South Da kota (3), Vermont (3), New Hampshire (4), and Rhode Island (4) or fifteen states in all presently under the ―protection‖ of the E

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8. Addendum to the above: Al Gore won the Popular Vote against (now) President George Bush, while narrowly losing the Electoral College

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9. Reagan Democrats, a vital voting bloc that spear-headed his unexpected victory over presidential incumbent James Earl Carter, should not be casually dismissed as an electoral anomaly lest we forget Richard M

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10. Buchanan recalls the Republican Party‘s national electoral achievements; winning presidential elections in 1968, 1972 (Landslide), 1980, 1984 (Landslide) and 1988 (Landslide) however losing ground in the Cultural War

11. According to the most recent numbers of the Los Angeles Times, Bush has obtained 59,117,382 (52% of the popular vote) and 286 electoral votes (270 electoral votes are needed to win the election)

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12. As for Kerry, he has received 55,435,808 (48% of the popular vote) and 252 electoral votes

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13. Bush has secured his place in history as one of the three presidents who have won the presidency consolidating the electoral vote and losing the popular, and the only one to win reelection

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14. Jackson had the most popular (40%) and electoral (99 of the 133 needed) votes and so believed he should have been chosen

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15. ) Though Democrats had more popular and electoral votes, electors in several states ignored the popular vote and switched their vote

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16. It's also worth noting, both were elected as flukes, Lincoln because of electoral splits and Carter because of public disgust over recent scandals

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17. whose members have greatest influence in community-level electoral politics and to be a democratic socialist political organization which aims to bring Socialism into the mainstream of American politics

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18. The legislative significance of such contradictory procedures is dwarfed by their electoral importance, as legislators can compile a voting record suitable for nearly any audience

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19. In America, with its television-hungry audience and huge electoral districts, candidates take to the airwaves to broadcast their message

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20. Without the unfortunate prohibition, we would still be promenading naked in the earthly paradise and would never have had the chance to discuss these important matters raised by Your Electoral Highness

21. Bismarck’s electoral victory was great, as was the renewed defeat of German liberalism

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22. Democracy is the form of government of and by the people under a free electoral system

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23. On 20 May 1932, While Gāndhiji was in Yeravda Jail, he went on a fast protesting against separate electoral representation for backward Hindus

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24. " Anti-corruption campaigner Baba Ramdev said that the INC was using the nomination and Tendulkar's stature to boost its battered image through series of scandals and electoral defeats

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25. In the States the Electoral College who votes pretty well according to popular wishes elects the president

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26. La Follette gave some great speeches but on election day, he came in third behind Cooledge and Davis, collecting thirteen electoral votes but only 17% of the popular vote

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27. I was thinking of going back to school so I applied to the Electoral College

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28. ‘’That was intentional, General Thompson: he didn’t want a gaggle of politicians to panic when they will learn that many Air Force contracts are about to be cancelled in their electoral districts

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29. As our defeat in Korea showed us, we don’t have anymore the luxury of conducting our little inter-service or bureaucratic infighting, or of wasting millions of dollars just to satisfy a senator or congressman who wants a contract for his electoral district

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30. According to the United States Constitution, the Electoral College meets to elect the President of the Untied States on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December

31. Presidential elections are actually determined by some strange body known as the electoral college

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32. Because all electoral votes of individual states are generally awarded to the high vote getter in the state, a president could be elected even though losing the popular vote by a huge margin, much larger even than the margin of Gore over Bush

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33. electoral procedures that will gradually refine the selection of their decision-

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34. While he had tried to reign with moderation, King Louis-Philippe was afflicted with a most unpopular prime minister, Guizot, who was totally opposed to any reform to the unjust current electoral system, on top of showing himself incapable of dealing with the grave economic crisis France was living through, with the poorer citizens suffering the most from the said crisis

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35. By doing so, it restricts choice and it tilts the electoral machinery in favor of the haves

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36. It was only an electoral ploy to garner votes

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37. Mandal had outlasted mandir in the electoral battlefield

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38. ’ The 2014 election was perhaps the first time in Indian electoral history that the Opposition was getting more funding than the ruling party

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39. Only a few business houses have set up official electoral trusts to give money by cheque

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40. So what was his secret formula that ensured repeated electoral success? ‘Among all the senior politicians in Odisha, he stands out as honest and earnest,’ claims a BJD MP

41. Till he is willing to do so, Vadra will remain a cross that Priyanka will have to live with if she ever enters electoral politics

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42. During all the above-mentioned surveys, face-to-face interviews with randomly selected voters from the most updated electoral rolls were conducted by specially trained field investigators

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43. mer head of the Independent Electoral Commission that managed South

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44. The sooner we change our electoral system, the better - or we will continue to be led by men who know nothing and are responsible for nothing while all around them everything burns’

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45. As IDEA notes: In many African countries Governing parties' use of state resources, with evident impunity, and their brazen demand for and acceptance of kickbacks explain much of the apparent electoral impregnability of many African governing parties, even those with clear records of economic and human rights failures

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46. They manage to build such formidable electoral war-chests that their impoverished opponents usually have little chance

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47. public sector, such as Home Affairs ID section, Electoral Roll, etc

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48. But this faulty political model lifted the morale of the depleted stock of the Indian Musalmans in an unexpectedly way! Since their vote mattered in numerous constituencies, the politicians grasped the electoral merit in playing the Islamic fundamentalist footsie with the Mullahs and the Maulvis

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49. However, her Islamic gimmicks for electoral withdrawals from the ‘Vote-bank de Mohammedan’ that became the political ethos of the Congress party, while not helping the Indian Musalmans, economically or otherwise, had only succeeded in earning for them the Hindu resentment in fair measure

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50. Never mind, it had always been the electoral calculus of the Congress party that given the caste divisions in the Hindu majority, politically it pays to cater to the Muslim religious proclivities to win over their votes en block

51. Meanwhile, what with the Congress party having been reduced into a flag bearer of Sonia’s self-interests, if anything, the electoral tactic of Muslim appeasement was turned into the party’s obsession to keep her at the helm of the political power

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52. After all, it doesn’t require the brains of an Einstein to realize that an electoral alliance between the Yadavs and the Musalmans would ensure political dividends in many a constituency in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

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53. When the minority vote swells up to a healthy 20% or more, as it may be sooner than later, this ‘power at all costs’ electoral pursuit of the shortsighted politicians is bound to boomerang on them not to speak of the Indian nation

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54. However, on the Hindu political ground, slowly but surely, the Congress party that began catering to the Islamic whims of the Indian Musalmans in the guise of secularism had started losing its electoral hold

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55. Nevertheless, the opposition plants sprouted by these backward caste-seeds couldn’t survive for long under the banyan tree of a political party that the Congress had been that was till the regional parties began to have their electoral sway outside the Hindi-heartland

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56. What with the coming of age of the educated voters from the forward castes, they began to abhor its dynastic odor; Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress started losing its electoral grip on the Indian political stage

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57. Finally, the dalit resentment against the caste Hindus too found its expression in Kanshi Ram-Mayawati combine with the electoral slogan, tilak taraaju aur talwaar, sabko maaro joote chaar – Brahmins, Banias be Thakurs, bash them all with no respite

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58. Yet it might not have made any impact on the Hindu minds, long reconciled to the demolitions of their temples of yore, had not the appeasement brigade, who saw electoral dividends in this local dispute, egged on the Musalmans not to yield an inch of the land to the Hindu sentiment

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59. an electoral process or referendum

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60. cms?intenttarget=no); however, the saffron brigade never made any attempt to put forward such a proposal by negotiating with Muslims but instead went about chanting deeply offensive slogans, such as referring to all Muslims as Babar kee santan, which understandably made them inflexible in their stand) driven by vote-driven politics of certain political parties (this is not to say that I am soft on Islamist political parties or political parties that appease Muslims and I criticize them as well; for reference, please see the following unambiguous statement in my article ‘Lessons from the UP Electoral Battle for The Impending War in 2014’[110] - “The culprit for introducing religion-based politics this time was the Congress…” and I have elaborated on the same in that very article)

61. believe the vote or the electoral process is a valid demonstration of

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62. 00pm same day, Peter was declared the winner by the National Electoral Committee through an announcement relayed over the radio

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63. 'Yes, yes--here, overlooking the market-place and the interesting statue of the electoral founder of the University

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64. For a long time two clear camps had been identified which separated the government appointed councillors from those who had gained their seats in the council through indirect electoral collage or functional constituency selection

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65. He strongly reiterated his call for their introduction in 1988 and added his own rider that he was concerned whether the Basic Law would in fact provide for Hong Kong’s future legislature to be constituted by the electoral process, despite the original promises contained in the Joint Declaration of three years earlier

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66. In some contexts, electoral races for instance, this means

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67. candidacy for Parliament in the same electoral district he’d tried to represent

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68. Parliament,] Out, OUT!”(10) But the season was still “fall”: another electoral district

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69. most certain we can gain enough electoral votes in the

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70. The information provided includes whether you are a voter at the address you have given (which means you'll be on the electoral register), whether you have failed to repay your debts or whether you have been taken to court for not paying back a debt

71. helpless in taking action against Raja because of the electoral considerations for the

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72. Nixon beat Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey by winning thirty-two states and 301 electoral votes

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73. Hayes of New York lost the popular vote but won the election over Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York by one vote cast by the congressionally appointed Electoral Commission

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74. However, he garnered 297 of the electoral votes to Ford’s 240, thus sealing his victory

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75. The final Electoral College tally is 525 to 13

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76. Each state’s electoral votes were to be reported to the president of the U

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77. In the original plan the Electoral College votes were to be counted in Congress

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78. In 1804 the Twelfth Amendment changed the electoral process to solve this problem

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79. In the meantime, we must work with the system we have, electoral college and all

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80. The Twelfth Amendment is lengthy and provides the nuts and bolts of how the Electoral College operates in presidential elections

81. The electoral process, covered in an earlier chapter, was convoluted and deeply confusing before this amendment improved the process

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82. There are many who are unhappy with the existence of the Electoral College and would prefer to have the presidential election decided by popular vote

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83. This topic warrants further discussion, because circumstances have changed significantly in this country since the Electoral College system was established

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84. There should be no incentives for dishonesty built into our electoral process, and cheating should be a federal crime, because the stakes are high

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85. Just as Republicans and Democrats in the United States keep redrawing electoral districts to create “safe” seats, traders keep selecting indicators that deliver the votes they want to see

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86. Certainly I was angry that Theodore Roosevelt had used me as a pawn in one of his electoral chess games

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87. When the Depression set in, the Democrats, who recognised a vote-winner when they saw one, included repeal of prohibition in their electoral programme and in December 1933 Congress finally passed the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing Federal prohibition and leaving individual states free to prohibit or allow the sale of alcohol as they pleased

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88. Finally, in 1960 his electoral fraud was so blatant that South Korean students rose up and toppled his government, but the military seized power the following year under General Park Chung Hee

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89. But American politicians were still conjuring up his image to boost their electoral ratings in the 1990s and beyond, so Camelot hasn’t entirely vanished

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90. Opening and Counting the Electoral Votes for President and Vice President

91. The President of the Senate opened the electoral returns, one copy of which was handed to the teller of the Senate, Mr

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92. Counting of Electoral Votes

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93. RECAPITULATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES

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94. meeting of the two Houses to count Electoral votes, 27;

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95. on the proceedings on counting the electoral votes, 105

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96. Electoral Votes for President, examination and counting of, 27

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