Sentence examples for elections from high-quality English sources.

• Yet we regard elections as the only valid method.

• Elections in Uruguay are generally considered to be fair.

• “Either we hold clean elections in Brazil or we don’t have elections,” he said.

• In traditional in-person voting systems, voters have to update their addresses with local elections offices themselves.

• As the 2015 elections approached, Bashir once again was the NCP’s presidential candidate.

• The MPLA was the only legal party of Angola until multiparty elections were held in 1992.

• With the exception of Turkey and Israel, competitive elections in the Middle East are rare.

• African-Americans also disproportionately used the—now eliminated—first seven days of early voting during these elections.

Use elections in a sentence.

• In 1997 the party won about 14 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections and 16 percent in local elections.

• Mr Abbas declares Jerusalem a “red line”: if there cannot be elections in the city, there will be no elections at all.

• That still seems quite a remote prospect, but these elections, separate from national elections, could have a drastic impact on British politics.

• At the same time, Mr Modi's party itself has a mixed record in state elections - the BJP has lost more elections than it has won in the past six years.

• A president’s approval rating is typically a very strong predictor of the results of presidential elections and even a helpful one in congressional elections.

• False news flourished before the Mexican elections in July, and the company has been cracking down on misinformation ahead of Brazil’s national elections in October.

• Voter turn-out could have been increased by postponing elections till next May to coincide with county council elections, thus increasing representation and saving £100m.

• STV is used in national elections in Ireland and Malta, in Australian Senate elections, and in local and European Parliament elections in Northern Ireland.

elections sentence examples

• To that end, Burundian opposition groups announced that they were boycotting the June 29 parliamentary elections and the July 15 presidential election, and both the African Union (AU) and the European Union refused to observe the elections.

• The DMK has had mixed electoral fortunes in the state assembly elections since 1972, winning assembly elections and control of the state government in 1989, 1996, and 2006 and losing power to the AIADMK in the 1991, 2001, and 2011 elections.

• Prior to the 2014 elections, controversial constitutional amendments were passed that included provisions for holding elections on one day rather than over the course of two days, increasing the number of seats in Parliament, and creating a new vice president position.

• While midterm elections generally garner lower numbers of voter turnout and participation than general elections do - the rate in the last one in 2014 was just 36.4 per cent of eligible voters - a study has revealed that voter turnout has increased in primary elections across the country this year.