8 sentences with 'electoral'
Example sentences and phrases with the word electoral and other words derived from it.
• « Especially in times of economic crisis, many otherwise "ordinary" Germans looked to political extremists for possible solutions; to cite the most important example, the electoral fortunes of the Nazi party rose and fell in an inverse relationship to the health of the German economy. »
• « Through electoral fraud and massive intimidation by Nazi storm troopers, the new elections saw the Nazis win 49% in the next election. »
• « Contemporary far-right parties have yet to enjoy the kind of electoral breakthrough that laid the groundwork for (to cite an obvious example) the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. »
• « Partisan rancour over the French Revolution and the Whiskey Rebellion fuelled the division between them, and Federalist John Adams defeated his Democratic-Republican rival Thomas Jefferson by a narrow margin of only three electoral votes. In 1800, another close election went the other way, and Jefferson began a long period of Democratic-Republican rule. »
• « The Louisiana Purchase helped Jefferson win re-election in 1804 by a landslide. Of the 176 electoral votes cast, all but 14 were in his favour. »
• « Results from the eighteen states where the popular vote determined the electoral vote gave Jackson the election, with 152,901 votes to Adams' 114,023, Clay's 47,217 and Crawford's 46,979. »
• « The Electoral College, however, was another matter. Of the 261 electoral votes, Jackson needed 131 or more to win, but only got 99. Adams won 84, Crawford 41 and Clay 37. Since Jackson did not receive a majority of Electoral College votes, the election was decided under the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, which stipulated that when a candidate did not receive a majority of the electoral votes, the election went to the House of Representatives, where each state would contribute one vote. »
• « In November 1828, Jackson won an overwhelming victory over Adams, with 56 percent of the popular vote and 68 percent of the electoral vote. »