How To Use Electoral In A Sentence

Electoral victory is just a distant mirage.
Here is strong evidence of the need to reform the electoral system so every vote counts.
Prescriptions have included decentralization, electoral reform and more radical economic policies.
The main victim here is the “abstentionist” movement who is told that the main trickery of Chavez IS NOT the electoral registry, at least at presidential election level. Electoral registry irregularities and Perez Oramas on the uselessness of voting
Congress has ever been niggardly when little or no evidence of electoral sentiment is presented to justify more generous appropriations.

Such a renouncement would not trigger the Electoral Act and would not require a by-election to allow the electorate to review the MP's mandate to represent him or her.
Last month, Najib said the government would establish a bi- partisan parliamentary committee to review changes to electoral rules, and that authorities would also consider amending laws governing censorship of print media. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
It is enshrined in draft legislation sponsored by Mario Segni, who championed the cause of electoral reform.
Sure it's what the Trib called the "bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics" but, hey, I guess that "kumbaya" attack goes by the wayside. Obama Responds To Bill's Reference To Jesse Jackson
Many members of the Dail Eireann spend an excessive amount of time and effort in the constituency, but this has been more related to Irish political culture than the electoral system.
the pursuit of electoral palatability
Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud.
Tune in today and you’ll see how these results change the Magic Map that’s what we like to call our snazzy Electoral Map internally. Morning Buzz: Showdown in Nashville
A modern and sprawling city which sports imposing government monuments reminiscent of the Washington Mall, Brasilia is also home to the nation's Upper Electoral Court overseeing the nation's presidential election. Nikolas Kozloff: Part III: What Is the Brazilian Brand?
GEORGE III., till 1816: -- The arms indicated in the diagram, No. 430, the inescutcheon ensigned with an electoral bonnet. The Handbook to English Heraldry
Never before, except for a short period between 1947 and 1953, had an outspokenly anti-political movement acquired such a significant electoral success.
A runoff is to take place between the two top vote getters as no candidate gained more than 50 percent of the votes, needed to secure an electoral victory.
The state-specific random swing factor determines which states have their electoral college votes allocated according to biased coin flips after the national random swing factor is applied. Wolfram Blog : Analyzing U.S. 2008 Elections with Mathematica
This week Mr Prodi said a new electoral law was an " absolute priority ".
I will be careful not to go off-piste, as it were, into a debate about electoral reform, because I was trying to put my remarks in the context of what happens in this place.
He has presided over a marked increase in public cynicism about politics without suffering significant damage to his own electoral prospects.
“En cumplimiento a las disposiciones electorales Mexicanas, este canal permanecera bloqueado hasta las 8 de la noche del dia de hoy.” Election day
The paper didn't express a preference for any particular scheme of electoral reform.
And in an electoral system dominated by money, that often means the short-term interests of their largest campaign contributors.
But focusing on electoral politics and economic development distracts us from the truly ugly side of our southern neighbor.
She was the founder and former director of both the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks electoral spending, and Public Campaign, which pushes for campaign finance reform.
But the question remains, as a seemingly ungovernable party continues to languish in electoral obscurity and tear itself apart, whether the smack of firm leadership will be enough to save the Scottish Tories.
It was the Christian Democratic Party's fourth successive electoral defeat.
War, the Indian Mutiny, and the war with China had kept England in a continual state of martial fever, and the agitation for electoral reform was beginning. William of Germany
In the past, civil rights groups have criticized the redistricting process for working against immigrant and African-American communities on Long Island, and while lawsuits have sought to address the problem on a case-by-case basis, electoral representation in communities of color will be a pressing issue in the coming weeks. Ted Hesson: Forum: Redistricting and Its Impact on Long Island Communities of Color
Anyone judged by the electoral commission to lack ‘a good reputation’ was also prohibited from running for office.
They want electoral reform in what they call a dysfunctional democracy. Ellen Freudenheim: 15 Mayo: What Will It Mean for U.S. Youth Election Year Activism?
Huckabee would consolidate the "solid South" for the Republicans, energizing the evangelical Christian base and fending off efforts by Obama to "redraw" the electoral map. Huckabee says he'd like to be McCain's running mate
The constitution provided broad electoral franchise.
Dresdensis) _ of 1571 the Philippists of Electoral Saxony also rejected the omnipresence (which they termed ubiquity) of the human nature of Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Mr Alton said that the poll tax meant many people had dodged electoral registers in a bid to avoid payment.
There is an economic and social dimension to the case for electoral reform that progressives often ignore.
The Tories have reformist policies, but lack the electoral clout.
The party has been grappling with fractionalism and infightings with senior leaders blaming each other for the electoral debacles in both the assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Daily News & Analysis
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Several complaints of electoral irregularities and fraud were made.
They are poring over the shifting electoral background thrown up by the general election.
Turnout is becoming as important an electoral indicator now as the share of the vote that each party achieves.
So I would say that the words ‘electoral integrity’ have not been the watchwords of this Government.
It is a dreadful initiative in policy terms, but electorally appears to have been successful in negativing any northern suburb's fears about Labor being soft on crime.
It may be objected that the Royal Commission which issued its Report last spring, did not recommend the incorporation of proportional representation into our electoral system. Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election
The difficulty of this prosecution and the harmfulness of the underlying facts to the integrity of the electoral and political processes give fuel to an argument that at least eight members of our Supreme Court seem to agree with: disclosure of campaign funds is vitally important. Jessica Levinson: The Hammer Gets Nailed
In contrast, ‘reform’ as a determinant of the electoral outcome has been largely diffused.
In a direct swipe at his brother, Ed, who used a Guardian article on Monday to lambast Nick Clegg for selling out Liberal principles, the shadow foreign secretary will criticise what he calls a patchwork approach to building electoral support. David Miliband takes 'comfort zone' swipe at Ed in Labour leadership fight
To the amateur psephologist who is bemoaning Hillary's real electoral advantage: 56% of W. Virginian's are Democrats. Why West Virginians turned out for Clinton
The fact that a party can be voted into power by a minority of the electorate calls into question the country's electoral system.
So what section of the Commonwealth Electoral Act do you say wrongly and beyond power displaces this State position as to times and places?
It may be that this surly electoral mood is too settled to be remediable by anything short of an economic crisis.
What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate's brother.
Several authors have noted that as a result of the decennial census, the states that are gaining population, House seats and electoral votes have below-average tax burdens, while those states losing House seats and electoral votes have above-average tax burdens. Toward A New Economic Consensus
He promised to punish severely any officials found guilty of electoral fraud.
This confirms a striking electoral contrast between the US and western Europe, including Britain.
For the freedom to vote, electoral documents adulterate or use fraudulent means to circumvent the popular will; Miguel Estrada: Zelaya has “a meritorious immigration beef.” - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
While the Committee was looking at the strange electoral role practices of the family of the somnolent Queensland backbencher, he seemed to have something different to say.
In recent years, academic credentials and technocratic knowledge have become more important than political and electoral experience.
While social movement theorists cite that electoral politics serve only to co-opt our work, we must ask ourselves if certain publications don't do the same.
Peel no more meant to convey any idea of this kind than did Lord John Russell, when he used the word finality in connection with the Reform Act, mean to convey the idea that, according to his conviction, Parliament was never again to be invited to extend the electoral franchise or to modify the conditions under which the votes of the electors were to be given. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)
At that time I was introduced to a laywoman who was influential in the Catholic church in that electoral district.
The Electoral College would never have survived as a quaint anachronism of the American political system if its actions overturned the will of the people.
University candidates must lobby their electoral college by means of a mailshot to their tens of thousands of voters.
As for Reagan getting 51% of the vote ... he also out-paced Carter, who only got 40% of the vote, by 10 pts, which is a huge electoral victory. Clinton Camp: "Karl Rove Is Writing Senator Obama's Talking Points"
It has an electoral system which in principle should be the envy of the world.
Does that argument reveal a strong case for electoral reform in Canada?
Who will reform Britain's unfair electoral system?
It has been sustained by tribalism, the adaptiveness of the two parties and the electoral system. Times, Sunday Times
It may not have received as much coverage as the voluntary voting proposal, but one recommendation in yesterday's report of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters is an absolute stinker.
I need to cogitate and ruminate on it a bit more before the official electoral prediction.
There were demands for the mandatory reselection of MPs, and for the choice of the party leader to be taken from MPs and lodged in an electoral college, which would include the trade unions and the constituency parties.
Dole needs to win New Jersey with its diverse ethnic mix and 15 electoral votes.
Homelessness, overseas aid, prison overcrowding, electoral reform and the maintenance of peace are all on the agenda.
They are accused of medical/financial/electoral malpractice.
The Electoral Reform Society has produced a damning analysis of the anti-democratic nature of the 2005 general election.
After a given electoral defeat, the left consoles itself with the illusion that a cabal of this nature would have contrived the lowest, slimiest smear it could have hoped to get away with, found some moneybags to fund it, snuck it into the public debate, and swayed the weak-minded. Deconstructing Obama
This counter-initiative should also aim to influence electoral politics because Democrats, who are dependent on corporate coffers, have only been able to win piecemeal social justice victories. Noura Erakat: The Tea Party and Race in America
Elite convergence progresses until the subordinate group of elites learns to beat the dominant group through the electoral process.
But on a much larger level, it just shows once again the utter vacuousness of our electoral system.
Days he lived in concealment, and after the second Restoration obtained the title marquis, and in 1819 introduced a motion in the chamber of peers tending to render the electoral law more aristocratic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Others who tried to use that as a means to gain electoral votes failed miserably.
According to Kenya’s Interim Independent Electoral Commission, a majority of Kenyans approved the new law in the 4th August referendum, with the 'Yes' team garnering 6,092,593 votes, which is 66.9 percent, while the 'No' team was only able to manage about 2,795,059 votes or (30.1 percent) of the total vote cast. New Constitution Will Signal Country’s ‘Rebirth’, Says Kenyan Justice Minister
Since then, they have ceaselessly prated about alternatives including foreign funded NGOism, job placements in the reactionary government, electoral politics and the like to the armed revolution rather than to the oppressive and exploitative ruling system. Introduction to Philippine Economy and Politics - Jose Maria Sison CPP
It's an old habit of his, using people's legitimate feelings of outrage ... for ends that are clearly electoral and demagogical, Nicolas Leger, national secretary of the USM magistrates union, told The Associated Press. French judges revolt, shut down courthouses
They are pushing for electoral reform.
Even as they immerse themselves in facile debates about the Boy King's "A-list", it could have a material effect on their electoral prospects. Talking about them… talking about themselves
As opponents of big government converged on what has been billed as the first national tea party convention, organizers hoped the event would further "galvanize" the populist movement and help it gather momentum after a string of recent conservative electoral victories. CommonDreams.org Headlines
Frustration at the narrow-minded ‘electoralism’ of the British political parties has produced a new form of militant abstentionism in the 2001 campaign which we haven't seen before.
Está masa electoral está integrada por 9 millones 111 mil 162 ciudadanos, 715 mil 972 analfabetos y, cuatro sectores que, por primera vez sufragan por así disponerlo la Constitución: 55 mil 066 militares, 39 mil 501 policías, 507 mil 534 adolescentes entre 13 a 18 años, y 86 mil 426 extranjeros con cinco o más años de residencia en el país. Global Voices in English » Ecuador: President Correa Wins Reelection
It is possible to win by addressing these issues openly and honesty as Peter Beattie did in Queensland with the electoral rorts affair.
The electoral fortunes of the Liberal Democratic party may decline.
The half-solution created electoral chaos, with some black representatives voting against it.
In 1964, the city got to cast electoral votes in the presidential race for the first time.
The first part of the draft would contain all voters who are present in the electoral list.
He'll visit the electoral office of his local member for Moreton, Gary Hardgrave MP, banks, government departments, churches and city streets, ‘where I intend to upsize the voice of the poor’.
A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted soas to retain Unionist minority control.
And the Cameroons are the end result to date, simply not conservatives in any way at all, and therefore unable to command electoral support outside the South East, where the party that they have infested already holds most of the seats without that's having done them the first bit of good with regard to the pursuit of office. The Key to a Scottish Tory Revival
He says ballot papers arrived on time in the area of Otor Ogor and security forces and electoral officials prevented any fraud.
The votes will be counted up to Monday, July 28 and the election is being overseen by the Electoral Reform Society.
While your at it get rid of the electoral colledge too. Blitzer: Could Democrats scrap the current delegate system?
But if we want more Americans to get out and vote on election day, then we have overcome the sort of kneejerk negativism that turns so many Americans off to electoral politics.
This register is not identical to the electoral register and includes foreigners resident in this country and others not entitled to vote.
It is why Israelis recently voted in right winger Binyamin Netanyahu and why he, in turn, was compelled to name avowed racist Avigdor Lieberman, founder of far-right Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home party, whose electoral base are the immigrants from the former Soviet Union) as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. The Circular Dangers of John Hagee, AIPAC and Netanyahu
`There are 53 other states and territories, 500 other electoral college votes and 150 million other voters. WALL GAMES
Incapable of making any broad appeal, the presidential contenders will resort to electoral fraud, character assassination, chauvinist appeals and outright violence to boost their chances.
Our electoral system strongly favours two-party government.
Was it economic crisis, political liberalization, the revival of minority nationalisms, cutthroat electoral competition, the greed of the local nomenklatura, the inept application of force by the central authorities, or the inherently fragile structure of the Soviet ethno-federation? The Return
Mack, a solid conservative who opposes abortion, could help Dole in electoral vote-rich Florida.
To achieve electoral success, pragmatic parties might shift their position or expand the range of viewpoints they encompass.
PR would mean that this disappointing inconclusiveness, this national post-electoral dithering and huddling, becomes the norm. Azeem Ibrahim: Proportional Representation Is Like a Box of Chocolates : You Never Know What You're Going to Get
With the electoral boundaries gerrymandered in parallel, many nationalist council majorities were wiped out.
They looked upon electoral victory as licence to abuse power, help cronies and amass huge fortunes.
The primary assemblies, composed of the tenth of the general population, nominated the local _list of communal candidates_; electoral colleges, also nominated by them, selected from the _communal list_ the superior list of provincial candidates and from the _provincial list_, the list of national candidates. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
And if we had been reading them correctly, for what they told us, not what we wanted to hear, we would not have been so ill-prepared for the actual electoral results.
The poll was organized by an electoral commission under a Kurdish judge, Amir Hawsizi and international monitors.
Unfortunately, the electoral reality for the SNP is that it holds what were historically Tory seats - ones which remain socially and politically conservative.
Our fake-macho President Bush has shown himself to be the worst kind of stoolie, spilling the beans as soon as it became apparent that he needed to cover his electoral ass. "Macho" Bush Turns Stoolie Under Pressure
Further, in a currency union no government of a member country can manipulate the money supply growth rate for electoral purposes.
This bipartisanship allowed Howard to recover sufficient electoral support to retain office for a third term.
Carty's work had taken him to many homes throughout the rural heartlands of the electoral area over many years.
He is not persuaded of the need for electoral reform.
The complicated ballot sheet was also relatively easily altered for the purposes of electoral fraud.
Many of those would come from the utility, mining and railroad sectors, with the heaviest impact falling on Rust Belt states that have many old coal plants—and electoral votes. EPA Tangles With New Critic: Labor
Thus economic models of bureaucratic behaviour usually involve a theory of legislative behaviour in which politicians aim to maximize their electoral support.
Delegates have voted by a narrow majority in favour of considering electoral reform.
Your report Voting system will keep us in perpetual coalition, 4 January on electoral reform confirms that the first-past-the-post system is broken. Letters: Partisan battles over electoral reform
The entire electoral setup has turned into a political stranglehold over the masses, offering no means for working people to express their social discontent.
Calls for consideration of electoral reform and a new form of black representation are both expected to be defeated.
One factor which has made female governance possible is the wider dispersion of electoral democracy since the late 1980s, after a long and often bitter experience of military coups.
It's a sign of an important shift when a leader needs to sprinkle the electoral stardust of Mr Kinnock over a speech.
That leaves 133 electoral votes up for grabs in those so-called tossup states. CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008
A combination of apparently unlimited electoral puissance and an underlying lack of both intellectual self-confidence and political principle has destabilised him.
The Republican nominee could gain about a half-dozen net electors from the transfer of House seats—and thus electoral votes—from the northern Frostbelt to the southern and western Sunbelt. The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States
Congress has ever been niggardly when little or no evidence of electoral sentiment is presented to justify more generous appropriations.
The president demanded that the EC observer and state Chief Electoral Officer countermand the elections to stop the declaration of results tomorrow.
Under the electoral laws, any sitting member can register a party without the need for party members.
Sixty years before the Russian revolution, Abraham Lincoln credited a photographer with assisting in his electoral victory by retouching a portrait to shorten his neck and make him appear more youthful.
The electoral system has been highjacked by two factions of the same party catering to elite interests, and fixated upon inflexible beliefs and policies suited to yesteryears problems.
No U.S. interventor governor came to establish an electoral code here, as they did in the past. First World Solidarity Conference Holds Meeting Castro Addresses Solidarity Conference
And when this policy seemed in danger of leading to regression as a result of electoral defeat, the commit ment to electoral (hence revisionist) activism was characterized as a buttress to the established theory of societal breakdown rather than as a major concession to revisionist ideology. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
A further provision would have the effect of banning electoral alliances and coalitions.
We, or rather you to be precise, are employing him much as you would a... an advertising company to promote an electoral campaign. LOADED QUESTIONS
The consequences for the NNP were clear and simple: it had been annihilated as an electoral force in South Africa and the Western Cape, Selfe said.
* They have (numerically speaking) almost identical electoral college calculi -- They would both win or lose the EC by very similar margins. Hillary Campaign Emails Out "Electability" Power-Point To All House Dems
This amounts to a kind of electoral entryism, using the mechanism of democracy in order to gerrymander it. Times, Sunday Times
Public demos are likely to continue after parliament ruled the initial poll invalid and passed a symbolic, non-binding vote of no-confidence in the electoral commission.
Cosma Shalizi has put together a wonderful compilation of electoral college maps and cartograms.
Sir Ken was an aggressive operator who campaigned in favour of the euro and against electoral reform.
This register is not identical to the electoral register and includes foreigners resident in this country and others not entitled to vote.
From being Labour's saviour and electoral ace with the swing voter, he will become the man in the way.
The SP's new-found concern about collusion between the governmental right and the neo-fascists is thoroughly opportunist and cynical, grounded in narrow electoral considerations.
Despite her electoral rout, the masses, seduced by her silken eloquence into believing that Dr Karunanidhi and his men had been witch hunting her, stood solidly behind her.
In the meantime, we should be organizing teach-ins and town meetings on electoral democracy.
The party has been trying to woo the voters with promises of electoral reform.
Like all players in the electoral process, monitors must also abide by the rules and regulations of the game.
What effect will the result have on the pre-electoral mood of the masses?
Recent electoral shocks have shaken the European political landscape.
The Mongolian Democratic Party is campaigning for electoral reform.
Clinton returned to the electoral fray last week to get out the black and Hispanic vote in California and the south.
Labour's huge majorities owe much to a decision by electors to vote tactically: a kind of spontaneous electoral reform.
Is this one of the reasons why 1 million people are missing off the electoral register?
Speculation is mounting over the leadership of the Labour group on Hull Council which has been left bruised and battered by the recent electoral defeat.
If all the disputed electoral votes went to Hayes, he would win; just one of them would elect Tilden.
They called into question various electoral procedures including the drawing up of electoral lists and the issuing of ballot papers.
In the context of electoral politics as practiced there, populism is attractive to politicians of all shades.
This electoral demography provides an unassailable base for a dependency culture that dominates the political process.
The decennial population census originated in the 1787 federal Constitution as a mechanism for determining each state's political representation in the House of Representatives and electoral college.
They aggressively courted famous personalities, landing on a troika who were almost completely new to electoral politics.
The 2003 Electoral Law allows a quota of 30 percent for women representatives in the legislative body.
Did he have the right to confiscate Electoral land?
Now, there are many reasons why the more unconventional parties are shuffled off to the sides of the electoral process.
The killers were dressed in saffron scarves and khaki shorts, the uniform of the RSS, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Organization of National Volunteers) — the umbrella group of the Hindu nationalist movement — and came armed with swords and gas cylinders, as well as electoral registers and computer printouts of addresses. India’s New Face
It is charged with administering the electoral laws of Australia on behalf of the Australian people.
Reports say Ambassador Galbraith has sided with the Canadian chairman of the Electoral Complaints Commission, Grant Kippen, to take a hard line and toss out all tainted ballots.
Also ineligible are undischarged bankrupts, lunatics, and anyone who has been sentenced to more than three months' imprisonment over the previous five years, or convicted of illegal electoral practices.
Leading members of Respect have made repeated attempts to agree an electoral pact with the Greens.
The controversial "binomial" electoral system that guarantees congressional seats for the political right remains in place. 'The Glass Has Broken'
But his proposals for electoral reform, now moving ahead in fits and starts, contain no such provision.
Milosevic promised the students he would investigate their allegations and punish any officials found responsible for electoral fraud.
The Legislative Assembly shall consist of… members, who shall be elected for the several electoral districts hereinafter named and defined.
She is putting forward radical proposals for electoral reform.
The media may not be clairvoyant, but their foreknowledge of all things electoral seems to be an entirely natural, irremovable part of the electoral exercise.
They might have to tackle constitutional and electoral reform.
Electoral apathy is of great concern and seems to reflect the disconnection and disenchantment that many doctors feel.
Both countries are Labour strongholds and the party would have expected to dominate under first-past-the-post electoral systems.
The UN spokesman says the Stabilization Mission will continue to help the electoral commission achieve what he calls a credible vote. U.N. Assists DRC in Organizing General Elections
After previous electoral debacles, the Conservatives bounced speedily back.
Congress has ever been niggardly when little or no evidence of electoral sentiment is presented to justify more generous appropriations.
The North's new Electoral Fraud Act may disenfranchise some voters in the run-up to the Assembly elections, according to the parties there.
All five motions have been signed by four of the five councillors elected in the Killarney electoral area in the June 11 poll.
This self-centredness bothered some of his followers, who quit after the party's dismal electoral performance.
A year later he was facing electoral defeat, having been overambitious in almost every field.
Such outbursts would not impress the public; expletives and desecrations of electoral oaths would thus remain behind closed doors.
Five days later, the hierarchy issued an episcopal letter that reiterated the imperative for Catholics to embrace democracy and reject electoral fraud.
Freedom House, a New York–based think tank that tracks the progress of democracy around the world, records that in 1989 there were sixty-nine electoral democracies in the world, accounting for around 41 percent of nation-states. Zero-Sum Future
This is the spurious, evolving dialectic of electoral democracy.
However, as it is for any poll, the Electoral College outlook is a snapshot in time, not a prediction.
She is putting forward radical proposals for electoral reform.

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