Example sentences of "went to the poll " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June 1983 , Margaret Thatcher went to the polls for the second time . |
| 2 | In Denmark the same year Prime Minister Schluter went to the polls after a social democrat coalition defeated him in Parliament and ruled that NATO ships coming to Denmark must be nuclear weapon free . |
| 3 | Indeed , with elections to popular committees and the executive committees of the local Assembly , Libyans went to the polls every eighteen months or so . |
| 4 | So the negative measures ( abolition of parties , abolition of parts of the state ) and the positive ideology had elements in common with the principles which underlay both private and public discussion , and which informed people 's decisions when they went to the polls . |
| 5 | While negotiations continued in Geneva , the Tories went to the polls declaring that ‘ collective security by collective action can alone save us from a return to the old system which resulted in the Great War . ’ |
| 6 | CMJ must surely have had this in mind when they invited the Reverend Jesse Jackson to address the convention a mere four days before the country went to the polls . |
| 7 | As people went to the polls in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in northern Bosnia , bulldozers cleared away the remains of two 16th-century mosques blown up the previous week . |
| 8 | Between February 1950 ( when the electorate returned the Labour Government with a barely adequate majority ) and October 1951 ( when Labour went to the polls again and were defeated ) , the confidence and authority of Gaitskell , as of his Government , withered . |
| 9 | When the voters went to the polls , of those who believed they were worse off , 64 per cent voted for Reagan and 25 per cent for Carter . |
| 10 | Of those who voted for Reagan many did so without great enthusiasm and a ‘ large ’ if indeterminate , proportion of Reagan 's support came from people who went to the polls to vote against President Carter' . |
| 11 | About 85 per cent of the electorate of 1,692,000 went to the polls , all those aged 18 and over being eligible to vote . |
| 12 | A total of 11,604,418 people went to the polls , representing a turnout of 93.4 per cent of the electorate of 12,426,443 , and 11,541,155 valid votes were cast . |
| 13 | The biggest single voting exercise of the entire local and republican election process occurred on March 4 when more than 100 million people ( an average turnout of roughly 70 per cent ) went to the polls in the three predominantly Slav republics . |
| 14 | Some 86 per cent of the electorate of 35,000 went to the polls . |
| 15 | Voters went to the polls on Jan. 20 for run-off elections for those National Assembly seats where no candidate had won an overall majority on the first ballot ( held in conjunction with the presidential elections on Dec. 16 ) . |
| 16 | Estonia and Latvia went to the polls on March 3 , and Georgia on March 31 . |
| 17 | In line with constitutional arrangements agreed at the February 1990 conference on reform [ see p. 37812 ] , the country went to the polls on March 10 to elect a president . |
| 18 | Results showed that 95 per cent of the registered electorate of 193,800 went to the polls and that 90 per cent of these voted " to remain part of Yugoslavia with Serbia and Montenegro and others who want to preserve Yugoslavia " . |
| 19 | In a referendum held on May 19 throughout Croatia , final results showed that 83.6 per cent of the registered electorate of 3,652,225 went to the polls and 93.2 per cent of these voted in favour of the proposal that Croatia , " as a sovereign and independent country which guarantees cultural autonomy and all civic rights to the Serbs and members of other nationalities in Croatia , may with other republics join a confederation of sovereign states " . |
| 20 | In a referendum held on Sept. 8 in Macedonia 75 per cent of the registered electorate of 1,400,000 went to the polls ; they were boycotted by many of the Albanians who made up 25 per cent of the republic 's population . |
| 21 | An estimated 4,500,000 voters went to the polls in eight provinces to elect six governors and remaining congressional deputies [ see pp. 38388 ; 38434 for results of first and second rounds ] . |
| 22 | Of the 7,144,884 registered voters 6,592,441 went to the polls , representing a turnout of 92 per cent — voting was theoretically compulsory . |
| 23 | In the first round of voting 19 of the 28 seats were decided , with the remainder going to a second round ; 82 per cent of the 8,592-strong electorate went to the polls ( most of Andorra 's population of 60,000 being foreigners and not entitled to vote ) . |
| 24 | This sense of his irreplaceability was reinforced at the last moment by the dramatic and threatening events of the Cuban Missile Crisis , which began just six days before the French voters went to the polls . |
| 25 | Not all of the 269 constituencies in England and Wales went to the polls every time : indeed , the average number of contests at each general election was a little under 100 . |
| 26 | In Buckinghamshire in 1710 there were 164 split votes out of 4,301 freeholders who went to the polls ( 3.8 per cent ) ; in 1713 , 197 out of 3,957 ( 5 per cent ) . |
| 27 | VOTING Day came early for some schools in the North-East who went to the polls yesterday in a mock General Election . |