Example sentences of "the first [adj] elections in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the protests , local elections for the country 's large provincial and metropolitan assemblies went ahead on June 20 as scheduled — the smaller assemblies having been elected in May , the first such elections in more than three decades . |
| 2 | The first parliamentary elections in Jordan since 1967 were held on Nov. 8 , 1989 [ see pp. 37052-53 ] , when the Moslem Brotherhood won 20 of the 80 House of Representative seats , and independent fundamentalists won as many as 14 other seats . |
| 3 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 4 | As a result , in the first free elections in the spring of 1917 to the zemstvo and municipal Belorussian governments , not a single nationalist representative won any popular support . |
| 5 | The Communist SED which , in round-table talks with opposition groups , has agreed to hold the first free elections in East Germany since 1946 — planned for next May — is seriously threatened by a split or even dissolution . |
| 6 | His ruling Nepali Congress party had come to power in May 1991 ( in the first free elections in 32 years — see p. 38193 ) promising to raise living standards , but now faced the prospect of defeat in local elections due in May and June . |
| 7 | This , together with their ability to organise clandestine activity and their promises of economic and social reform , helped the Communists to emerge as the strongest party in the first post-war elections in October 1945 , when they won 26 per cent of the vote . |
| 8 | Since the first direct elections in 1979 , it has gradually increased its powers to supervise the Commission and to amend budgetary and legislative proposals . |