NOUN
- the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results
How To Use returning officer In A Sentence
- The petitioners also accused the city's returning officer and chief executive of failing to discharge her duties in accordance with electoral law.
- The returning officer can re-address the envelope to you at your home address on receipt of the returned envelope from the prison authorities.
- The unsigned ballet papers must be returned to returning officer along with ballot box duly mentioning polled and unpolled votes.
- Following the declaration by the returning officer, I am greatly honoured and privileged to be elected as the Kennet councillor for the Ogbourne ward.
- As many as 20 people died in polling-related incidents, and the returning officer was forced to suspend voting in eight stations.
- For returning officers across East Lancashire, one of the primary goals of next month's national and county council elections is to restore faith in a process blighted by scandal in recent years.
- Submission of the grid paper 1. Please submit the grid paper to the Returning Officer when you submit your nomination form on or before 28 February 2002. 2.
- JAIPUR/JODHPUR: One person has been arrested by Jodhpur police for attacking a returning officer in Mandore panchayat samiti after the declaration of poll results on Monday. The Times of India
- With just 75 minutes to go before the deadline for handing in completed nominations, the returning officer told us we needed to get the signatures of 30 assentors.
- This, of course, assumes that there are returning officers in existence to whom the Clerk can send the writ.