Example sentences of "[prep] the last [adj] elections in " in BNC.
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1 | The CDA 's share of the vote , at 32.7 per cent , although marginally up on its result for the last municipal elections in 1986 [ see p. 34309 ] , compared aversely with 35.3 per cent in the September 1989 general election [ see p. 36900 ] . |
2 | The result nevertheless represented an improvement on Les verts ' share of 0.35 per cent of the vote in the first round of the last legislative elections in 1988 . |
3 | The PSOE received 38.4 per cent of the vote , compared with 36 per cent in the last local elections in 1987 [ see pp. 35525-26 ] . |
4 | Both the two largest parties suffered losses ; Fianna Fáil , the major party in the ruling coalition , won 358 seats ( 437 in the last local elections in 1985 ) and lost control of the city and county councils in Dublin . |
5 | In the last free elections in what is now East Germany , in 1946 , the SED , after its forced alliance with the SPD , won on average 45 per cent of the vote . |
6 | In regional elections on March 22 the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) of President François Mitterrand polled only 18.3 per cent of the vote in metropolitan France , compared with 29.88 per cent at the last regional elections in 1986 . |