adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an election/electoral campaign
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He was candidate in the 2008 election campaign.
an election/electoral defeat
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It was their worst general election defeat since 1982.
an election/electoral victory
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The Democrats were celebrating their election victory.
an electoral alliance (= made between parties before an election )
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The weaker Liberal Democratic party was now considering an electoral alliance with Labour.
an electoral mandate (= gained by winning an election )
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Ford took over when Nixon resigned, and thus did not have an electoral mandate of his own.
an electoral/election contest
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What will be the outcome of the electoral contest?
electoral college
electoral fraud
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electoral fraud
electoral register
electoral success (= success in elections )
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The electoral success of the far right understandably fills many people in Europe with alarm.
the electoral register (= official list of voters )
the electoral roll BrE, the (voter) rolls American English (= a list of the people who are allowed to vote )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
advantage
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At least he states his beliefs as they really are, and does not mould them to electoral advantage .
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Such measures, exploited for electoral advantage , were within the capabilities of the government to provide.
alliance
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Discussions took place between the two parties over a possible electoral alliance , but broke down in April.
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A further provision would have the effect of banning electoral alliances and coalitions.
behaviour
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The rules that used to cover electoral behaviour no longer apply.
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With this knowledge, electoral behaviour may be related to local area social and economic characterisation.
boundary
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Municipal elections in the province were postponed from November until next May, mainly because of unresolved disputes over electoral boundaries .
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It had previously been notorious in some areas for the manipulation of electoral boundaries and for the practice of religious discrimination.
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A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted soas to retain Unionist minority control.
campaign
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Barak's electoral campaign Even though this was an election that Netanyahu lost, it also required Barak to win.
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In all more than 1,000 people were arrested during the electoral campaign .
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The courts and tribunals were made responsible for ensuring the smooth running of electoral campaigns and equal treatment of candidates.
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The issue of the republics' future within the Yugoslav federation dominated the electoral campaigns .
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The exchanges between Bhutto and Ishaq Khan had grown sharper in the few last days of the electoral campaign .
college
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Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.
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Florida, with 25 votes in the electoral college that formally picks the next president, is pivotal to the outcome.
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This leaves 143 electoral college votes in 14 swing states undecided.
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Since the trade union votes count for 40 percent of the local electoral college , Mr Davies was declared the nominee.
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This electoral college system must be scrapped.
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That would deliver almost half of the trade union votes - 40 percent of the electoral college .
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The outcome, in the electoral college , is likely to be quite close.
commission
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Results were cancelled by the electoral commission in both places, where new elections were expected to be organized during December.
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But spokesmen said the electoral commission could probably only offer preliminary results Wednesday.
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In January 1877, Congress set up an electoral commission to decide the dispute.
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To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation.
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He praised the electoral commission for having had the courage to register him.
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The poll was organized by an electoral commission under a Kurdish judge, Amir Hawsizi and international monitors.
competition
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These expectations were nurtured by the adversarial nature of electoral competition and they pressed hard on to government.
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The particular method associated with democracy is electoral competition .
contest
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Tibbu further complicated electoral contests there.
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Yeltsin has entered an electoral contest that may be less bloody but even harder for him to win.
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He is both sharply divided from his party opponents and emotionally involved in electoral contests .
defeat
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Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework.
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Carter suffered the worse electoral defeat of any incumbent President ever, including Herbert Hoover in 1932.
district
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Yeltsin won majorities in more than 80 of the 88 electoral districts .
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State electoral districts must be apportioned according to population. 43.
fraud
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Mr Berisha's Democratic party alleged widespread electoral fraud by the government and intimidation of polling station officials by the police.
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Milosevic promised the students he would investigate their allegations and punish any officials found responsible for electoral fraud .
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Widespread electoral fraud and intimidation already have been reported.
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Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud .
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For a start, they are likely to face charges of corruption and electoral fraud .
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The complicated ballot sheet was also relatively easily altered for the purposes of electoral fraud .
law
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The incumbent President, Alan García Pérez, was barred by electoral law from seeking re-election.
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Congress may pass measures of constitutional significance, for example, certain stipulations of electoral law or the War Powers Act.
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The opposition parties had also criticized other aspects of the electoral law .
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Under the current electoral law , parliament could have dissolved itself immediately and carried on until the election in a caretaker role.
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Happily, before the vote of no confidence, parliament set it right by passing a new electoral law .
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Brett spoke out firmly on the question of discrimination in housing, electoral laws and public employment.
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This rump has been ordered to draft a new electoral law within two months so that new elections can be held.
pact
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One problem remained to be settled, which was the working out of the electoral pact .
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Following Bartlett's victory at Bridgewater, he launched a grass roots campaign for an electoral pact with Liberals and Communists.
politics
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This is the new electoral politics .
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S policy hostage to electoral politics .
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Regional bodies of this sort encourage the representation of interests as interests, rather than their fragmentation through electoral politics .
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The 1992 political process demonstrated the impact of this dramatic episode on the electoral politics .
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Ideas as such are not central in electoral politics .
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Freed from electoral politics , she became an oracle of sorts.
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That success led the Newmanites further into electoral politics , where they finally emerged in 1979 as the neutral-sounding New Alliance Party.
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But focusing on electoral politics and economic development distracts us from the truly ugly side of our southern neighbor.
procedure
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In February 1990 the organization left Belgrade's Socialist Alliance, citing the shortcomings in the alliance's electoral procedure .
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The law laid down qualifications for Congressmen and electoral procedures to be followed.
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Secondly, normal time limits for electoral procedures such as submission of nominations were reduced because of the special circumstances of the December elections.
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It would require them to conform to stricter accounting and electoral procedures , and suggests scrutiny by the National Audit Office.
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They called into question various electoral procedures including the drawing up of electoral lists and the issuing of ballot papers.
process
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But how was this pluralism to be embodied in the electoral process ?
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This electoral process provides both the president and the legislature with independent mandates to represent the citizens in the governing process.
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They broadcast a statement reaffirming the army's support for the process of democratization and denouncing the delays in the electoral process.
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But in fact they may actually have presaged that the contemporary presidency and electoral process were beginning to disintegrate.
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Observers had feared that violence would seriously disrupt the electoral process .
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Spoiled ballots accounted for 32 %, indicating the widespread dissatisfaction at the electoral process .
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Elite convergence progresses until the subordinate group of elites learns to beat the dominant group through the electoral process .
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The electoral process stopped abruptly with the death of the man most likely to be prime minister.
purpose
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Further, in a currency union no government of a member country can manipulate the money supply growth rate for electoral purposes .
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Similarly, a photograph of the congressman with the president at his side may be invaluable for electoral purposes .
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The attitude of employers is one of annoyance at what they see as government interference for electoral purposes .
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The most controversial elements of the new law were its provisions defining recognizable and legitimate political parties and groups for electoral purposes .
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It was deliberately smashed by people who used it cynically for their own electoral purposes .
reform
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Under a Labour government, this committee would become an official inquiry into electoral reform .
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Calls for consideration of electoral reform and a new form of black representation are both expected to be defeated.
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The case for electoral reform is best discussed in terms of the question: what kind of political system do we want?
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But his proposals for electoral reform , now moving ahead in fits and starts, contain no such provision.
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Yesterday's debate about electoral reform could provide the model.
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Reform , a friend to, i.e. a supporter of the electoral Reform Bill passed in 1832.
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Mandelson is probably right when he argues that the sudden salience of electoral reform hurt.
register
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The commission estimates the population on the basis of the electoral register - but is working with the artificially low 1991 registers.
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Go to the reference library and look up the electoral register for the last ten years or so.
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The other method for collecting facts about potential purchasers is through published lists - like the telephone directory or the electoral register .
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Is this one of the reasons why 1 million people are missing off the electoral register ?
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This register is not identical to the electoral register and includes foreigners resident in this country and others not entitled to vote.
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Mr Alton said that the poll tax meant many people had dodged electoral registers in a bid to avoid payment.
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The poll tax registers , unlike the electoral registers, are updated monthly.
registration
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Mr Alton said official electoral registration surveys were inadequate, missing many people actually eligible to vote.
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Only 0.3 percent. of the advertising budget is spent on electoral registration .
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Each year every household receives an electoral registration form.
roll
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If you are not on the electoral roll you may get turned down for credit.
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They can not have their names on the electoral roll and, as a result, can not vote.
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Voluntary patients can register on the electoral roll and can have postal votes.
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Addresses don't have to be mentioned, they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name.
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Hoyte had twice extended the parliamentary session in 1991, ostensibly in order to allow new electoral rolls to be drawn up.
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Official funding would be made available for party political broadcasts and electoral rolls were to be updated.
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An estimated 40,000 names on a revised electoral roll were reported to be suspect.
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I am interested in whether the police national computer is linked with poll tax registers, electoral rolls and telephone numbers.
rolls
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Hoyte had twice extended the parliamentary session in 1991, ostensibly in order to allow new electoral rolls to be drawn up.
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Official funding would be made available for party political broadcasts and electoral rolls were to be updated.
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I am interested in whether the police national computer is linked with poll tax registers, electoral rolls and telephone numbers.
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A period of three years was thought to be necessary for census-taking and drawing up electoral rolls .
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Authorities will be able to examine electoral rolls .
success
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Despite the recovery of the Labour Party after 1931, its electoral successes were unspectacular.
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To achieve electoral success , pragmatic parties might shift their position or expand the range of viewpoints they encompass.
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Its legitimacy was not based on electoral success but on its revolutionary principles and antecedents.
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Low local taxes are not always a recipe for electoral success .
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Such opinions have commendable moral tone but they are perhaps not a recipe for electoral success .
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Sometimes disagreement, in spite of attempts to conceal it, will become so public as to prejudice a party's hopes of electoral success .
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It also saw the first major electoral success for Labour: twenty-nine Labour and Lib-Lab members were returned.
support
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So after both of these elections a government was formed which had less electoral support than the opposition.
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In 1979 and in 1983 there was clear electoral support for several Conservative policies, even among many Labour voters.
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As a result, Shas's power base and electoral support have been garnered from the traditional strongholds of the Likud.
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It certainly owes nothing to any rational assessment of electoral support .
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Thus economic models of bureaucratic behaviour usually involve a theory of legislative behaviour in which politicians aim to maximize their electoral support .
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In the recessionary 1970s, most governments were turned out at elections or saw their share of electoral support fall.
system
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Plurality electoral systems tend to produce two identifiable blocs while majority run-off elections tend to produce more fragmented support.
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Will our major parties allow the electoral system to be changed?
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The electoral system would not be changed before the National Assembly elections due in March 1993.
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Changes in the electoral system recently brought in a new commission with six Hispanics, four blacks and three whites.
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He also told them to stop complaining about the electoral system .
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He also sees the need to reform the electoral system to clean up the political system.
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New Zealand's electoral system , a form of proportional representation, is a key difference.
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And they are treated harshly by the form of the electoral system .
victory
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This acceptance of the democratic rules of the game and the eventual sharing of electoral victories leads to democratic consolidation.
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Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972, the President moved to take on the legislature.
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This was undoubtedly the factor that led to the movement's overwhelming electoral victories in 1990 and 1991.
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After Papandreou's electoral victory in 1981, Tritsis was appointed environment minister.
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With the electoral victory of the Concertacion, the socialists felt a special mission to prove their loyalty to the ruling class.
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Equally, an electoral victory by Mr Tekere would have presented no particular problems to an administration whose members dominate Parliament.
vote
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The final result of electoral votes was: Clinton 370, Bush 168, Perot 0.
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Florida alone provided nearly one-tenth of the 270 electoral votes required for victory, while Ohio commands 21 votes.
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Hayes's election depended on contested electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida.
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He noted that Wisconsin controls only 11 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
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The final electoral vote was 185 to 184.
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It takes 270 electoral votes to win.
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At 3.15 this morning Clinton had passed the magical 270 electoral votes he required to win the presidency.
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Clinton carried Ohio and its 21 electoral votes by barely 90, 000 votes in the three-way race in 1992.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Electoral College
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As the rule book insists, 12 weeks will elapse before the electoral college is convened.
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Even under the electoral college rules, this achievement ought to make Gore the next president.
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However, as it is for any poll, the Electoral College outlook is a snapshot in time, not a prediction.
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If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.
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Instead, the candidates have to put together a jigsaw puzzle of states, bagging their votes in the electoral college.
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That would deliver almost half of the trade union votes - 40 percent of the electoral college.
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The most obvious example is the electoral college, the phantom body that stands between voters and the final outcome.
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The outcome, in the electoral college, is likely to be quite close.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Electoral systems vary from country to country.
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an electoral list
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Support for electoral reform is growing.
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the electoral system
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This was the first of her many electoral successes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972, the President moved to take on the legislature.
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But spokesmen said the electoral commission could probably only offer preliminary results Wednesday.
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Congress may pass measures of constitutional significance, for example, certain stipulations of electoral law or the War Powers Act.
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On Feb. 20 the Volkskammer approved a new electoral law to have immediate effect.
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Reports of the electoral death of the Conservatives were exaggerated.
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This register is not identical to the electoral register and includes foreigners resident in this country and others not entitled to vote.
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Thus, during these years, the overriding concern of the government in office was parliamentary survival and electoral prospects.
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Yeltsin won majorities in more than 80 of the 88 electoral districts.