Example sentences of "[adj] election hold [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if we take all elections held under the Triennial Act in the twenty year period from 1695 , including by-elections , we find that only nineteen constituencies avoided a contest altogether . |
| 2 | In legislative elections held at the same time the PLN won 29 of the 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 3 | After Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 , Rajiv was swiftly sworn in as her successor [ see p. 33220 ] and led Congress ( I ) to a massive victory in a general election held at the end of the year [ see pp. 33464-66 ] . |
| 4 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 5 | In the general election held in the Federal Republic of Germany in January 1987 , the Christian Democratic Union won 34.5% of the national political vote and 35.0% of the seats in the Bundestag . |
| 6 | The Central Electoral Board stated that more than 1,300,000 out of 3,275,000 eligible voters had abstained , the highest abstention figure in the 37 elections held since the proclamation of independence in 1844 . |
| 7 | The elections to the Convention were the least contentious of any of the general elections held under the later Stuarts : few of the contests which did occur were fought along party lines , and a number of constituencies returned one Whig and one Tory unopposed . |
| 8 | In the eleven general elections held in the Federal Republic they have successively numbered 2 , 3 , 3 , 5 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 , 2 and 1 — only 17 in all . |
| 9 | Three generalizations can be drawn about voting behaviour in the four general elections held in the period from 1950 to 1959 : |
| 10 | What would happen if there was a revolution and the monarchy was overthrown , Parliament dissolved and all its members imprisoned , and new elections held to a Constitutional Convention which draws up a new constitution with a presidential system of government and a single chamber assembly ? |
| 11 | PRI victories in the gubernatorial elections held in the northern states of Tamaulipas and Sinaloa and the central state of Puebla were fiercely disputed . |
| 12 | He did n't want local elections held before the general election . |
| 13 | The Rassemblement national des indépendants party won 18.05 per cent of votes and 21.69 per cent of the 22,282 seats in local elections held throughout the country on Oct. 16 . |