Example sentences of "[verb] at the last election " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was later provided that if the commissioner from the presiding burgh should be absent , or refuse to vote , the commissioner from the burgh which presided at the last election should have the casting vote and so backwards in rotation . |
| 2 | It is important to note that if the pledge that the Labour party made at the last election had been carried through , dramatically less money would have been spent on health , for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave . |
| 3 | He is confident he will gain the 6pc swing needed to secure the seat and says a Labour victory will ‘ finish off ’ what his colleague started at the last election in 1987 . |
| 4 | In fact , that is just what it did at the last election . |
| 5 | Mr Donald Dewar , Shadow Scottish Secretary , said Labour had fought an ‘ outstanding campaign ’ which would see it winning more than its present 48 of Scotland 's 72 seats at Westminster ; more , even , than the 50 it held at the last election . |
| 6 | On Saturday she was chosen as the candidate by members of the Euro-constituency which the party held at the last election in 1990 by just 2,977 votes . |
| 7 | Lord Ridley retired at the last election and took a peerage . |