Example sentences of "[noun] at the [num ord] election " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I can I say before I do launch into the amendment to Mr that you have played your card at the last election and the Leicestershire public has resoundedly given their answer to your particular policies . |
| 2 | A public body is also accountable both politically and administratively : the politicians consider the effect of a given decision on the electorate at the next election ; and the administrators are anxious to avoid any risk of criticism . |
| 3 | Moreover , the coalition government so formed will not have to ( or even be able to ) face the electorate at the next election since the parties to the coalition will be free to fight again as independent entities . |
| 4 | Macmillan worked on the American fear that a crisis in Anglo-American relations might contribute to a Conservative defeat at the next election . |
| 5 | The possibility of a Conservative defeat at the next election promotion investors to unload shares . |
| 6 | Any Conservative you care to converse with will predict a close contest at the next election . |
| 7 | The Lloyd George candidates at the last election smelt ; these will stink . |
| 8 | And that is why the SDP was declared to be a spent force the instant David Owen said that it would not be contesting every seat at the next election . |
| 9 | List MdBs must emulate them if they wish to safeguard their place on their party 's list or hope to win a constituency seat at the next election . |
| 10 | He often raises that subject , and we understand his desperation about what will happen to his seat at the next election . |
| 11 | Did she hope to stand in a winnable seat at the next election ? |
| 12 | THE former chairman of the GLC 's Police Committee and member of Ken Livingstone 's municipal revolutionary guard , Boateng , 40 , has risen rapidly since gaining his seat at the last election . |
| 13 | If the local organization after an election remained active , on a permanent basis of annual subscription , with a permanent organizing secretary who would attend to the registration work and become the agent at the next election , a candidate could , and probably would , be selected on his merits , and the constituency would be independent of men whose only merit was their wealth . |
| 14 | He should take responsibility for doing so or accept responsibility for his party 's vote at the next election , when Labour will be returned . |
| 15 | And if so , it is devoutly to be wished that both his SNP and Liberal Democrat opponents in North Aberdeen at the next election will together ensure that his constituents are reminded of their sitting member 's fundamental disagreement with his own party 's long-established policy on this key constitutional question . |
| 16 | Lynne voted Conservative at the last election and Labour in 1983 , but this time is uncommitted to any party . |
| 17 | In his address to the party conference at Brighton , Mr Kinnock said Labour was now ready , eager and able to take power from the Conservatives at the next election , and his confidence won him one of the most prolonged and enthusiastic ovations received by a Labour leader for many years . |
| 18 | He says it 'll go back to the Conservatives at the next election . |
| 19 | If there are two parties each putting forward programmes which they are pledged to carry out if elected to government , and which they are able to carry out because they possess sufficient internal cohesion , then the electorate in choosing a programme ( and a programme at that which has been drawn up to appeal to their interests ) mandates a party to carry out its programme and holds the party accountable for its adequate fulfillment at the next election . |
| 20 | Labour has vowed to keep the Works open if it wins control of the Council at the next election . |
| 21 | Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority . |
| 22 | The Tory-held seats at the last election which Labour would expect to win in the North-East are Darlington , Tynemouth , and Langbaurgh . |
| 23 | As everyone knows , the boundary commission , which decides how many constituencies an area needs , is likely to come up with recommendations that will deprive Labour of as many as 20 of its urban seats at the next election . |
| 24 | The Conservatives will lose those seats at the next election . |
| 25 | Turnout at the last election was around 50 per cent , and with the thinning of the electoral roll brought by the poll tax , will be even lower this time . |
| 26 | Philip Gould nudged stony-faced Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega out of army fatigues and into cowboy boots ; the same Philip Gould was described by The Times as having ‘ helped save the Labour Party more than £500,000 at the last election ’ . |
| 27 | Any one of the three main political parties could take the seat because they were within a few percentage points of each other at the last election . |
| 28 | Mr Smith took the constituency at the last election by a majority of little more than twelve hundred , but believes his five years as MP will make his seat safe . |
| 29 | That is one more reason why , across the south , there has been a greater swing to Labour than in any other region and why , I must point out to the hon. Member for Thurrock ( Mr. Janman ) , who seeks to speak for my native county , we look forward to a smashing victory in his constituency at the next election . |
| 30 | The Labour Party have committed themselves to establishing Regional Government , that is if Britain decided to commit suicide at the next election . |