Example sentences of "at the [adj] [adj] election " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , the Colonel pointed out , he could not ‘ consistent with my wounded feelings support his Lordship 's friend at the late General Election … ’ |
| 2 | Ten cooperative candidates ran at the 1918 general election , only one of whom was successful . |
| 3 | Although Billing retained his seat at the 1918 general election , ill health forced his retirement in 1921 . |
| 4 | Equally , the office had to be filled by a gentleman who would be acceptable to the majority of the county , and would preferably gain general acceptance , for anything less than that once again raised the spectre of potential hostility at the following parliamentary election . |
| 5 | The President asserted that the referendum would fulfil his pledge made to whites at the 1989 general election to seek their approval for major constitutional change . |
| 6 | His health continued to decline and within two years of masterminding the Liberal victory at the 1892 general election , so enabling W. E. Gladstone to form his fourth ministry , he resigned all his offices with the party . |
| 7 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 8 | Mr Finnegan was to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a member of an extreme right-wing party . |
| 9 | The Birmingham Liberal Association was already regarded as a model of efficiency , following the success of its ‘ vote as you are told ’ campaign at the 1868 general election , which had secured the return of Liberal members for all of Birmingham 's three seats , but Schnadhorst fine-tuned its organization to an even higher pitch . |
| 10 | The two parties won a total of 209 seats on the 22 regional councils in metropolitan France as compared with only four for environmentalists at the 1986 regional elections . |
| 11 | By May 1989 inflation at over 8 per cent was at the same level as at the 1979 general election and unemployment , though falling , was higher than in 1979 . |
| 12 | In the event , however , Labour actually suffered a swing against it compared with 1986 , lost a net total of 20 seats and , in some boroughs , even performed less well than at the 1987 general election . |
| 13 | He resigned his South Dorset seat at the 1987 general election . |
| 14 | At the 1987 general election the Alliance secured 23 per cent of the vote and 22 seats ( 17 Liberal , 5 SDP ) in the Commons . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman is concerned about the position of his party in Scotland , he should have regard to the fact that , at the 1987 general election , the city of Glasgow returned 11 Labour Members of Parliament . |
| 16 | The Conservative vote dropped from 59.9 per cent of the valid vote at the 1987 general election , to 40.9 per cent . |
| 17 | The improved organizational and propaganda activities saw Labour recover many of the parliamentary seats the party had lost in 1931 at the 1935 General Election . |
| 18 | The Republicans lost their narrow majority in Congress at the 1954 mid-term elections ; but Eisenhower 's personal popularity ensured that they retained the White House in 1956 , when he defeated Adlai Stephenson by an even greater margin than in 1952 . |
| 19 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 20 | Sir : Labour does not need a commitment to proportional representation in order to scoop most of the centre ground at the next general election . |
| 21 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S plans for the NHS could cost the Tories 1.5 million votes at the next general election , Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesman , claimed yesterday . |
| 22 | Senior Conservative MPs have already protested about the move and called on the Government to foot the £650m bill or risk losing key marginal seats at the next general election . |
| 23 | This year 's production number was of particular interest and significance because the Conservative high command is planning to make leadership a key issue at the next general election , only two years away . |
| 24 | Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote . |
| 25 | It was generally believed that they were proposing to seek an electoral pact with the Conservatives , so as to ensure that they would hold their seats against what was expected to be a Conservative landslide at the next general election . |
| 26 | He told a Westminster press lunch : ‘ I want to see a Conservative government returned at the next general election under Margaret Thatcher 's leadership . ’ |
| 27 | At a minimum , Solidarity is expected to present more than one list to the voters at the next general election — if it has not already formally split by then . |
| 28 | There were few predictions of a Tory victory at the next general election and even some concern that the country might topple over into serious civil strife . |
| 29 | However his personal preference remained to put any proposals from the inquiry before the public at the next general election . |
| 30 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |