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Examples of general election

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Traditional face-to-face canvassing had a statistically significant influence on the outcome of the 1997 generalelection.
Despite these drawbacks, local election results offer an attractive substitute for disaggregated generalelection results.
The marginality score for a bidding area based on marginality at the 1992 generalelection.
After winning the generalelection in 1987, a difficult combination of events occurred.
Only with the opening of yet another policy window, the generalelection of 1997, was convergence made possible.
Changes in national delegations occurred at each national generalelection, to reflect party strengths in the lower house.
During the generalelection of 1951, our headmaster allowed the school to hold a mock election.
If defeated, he would immediately call a generalelection.
The results of the 2000 generalelection can be interpreted in two contradictory ways.
Finally, only 20 days before the vote, they settled on a college professor from the 4th district as their candidate for the next generalelection.
Table 6 reports the results of applying such models to the 1979 generalelection result in the then-current constituencies.
This is to say, the effect of issue ownership may be stronger in primaries than in the generalelection.
As the theory expects, primary competition pulls candidates apart while generalelection competition, as indicated by candidates' relative qualities, draws them inward.
In 1922 labour polled 55.7 per cent at the generalelection but only 48.8 per cent at the municipal contest.
With a generalelection approaching in 1998 the party used the opportunity to boost their popularity by showing a leftist profile.
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