Below you will find example sentences with "votes cast". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Votes Cast in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: votes
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 17
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "votes cast" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 30.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as percent of votes cast, 50 of votes cast will be, total, election and percent stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with cast member, cast members, cast iron and electoral votes, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with votes cast
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Bowman received 1,785 votes, or 56.24 percent of votes cast. (12 words)
Votes cast were 2.6 million and valid votes 2.5 million. (12 words)
Excluding votes by Musk and his brother Kimbal, the measure passed with about 73 percent of votes cast. (18 words)
Having won majority of votes cast in Bokkos, Pankshin, and Kanke Local Government Areas by a clear margin of over three hundred thousand votes, Gotom said verifiable indices show that his main opponent in the APC had lost and had no chances of survival. (44 words)
The attorneys defending election officials argue Trump is in effect seeking a recount, which isn’t allowed in Arizona unless the margin between candidates is 200 votes or less, or one-tenth of 1% of the votes cast, whichever is the smaller number. (43 words)
The logic behind the reform may feel familiar: Mainers were wary of a three-way race in which the winner may not have achieved a majority of votes cast but would still get all four of the state’s electoral votes. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Well, the de-facto referendum results are in and there were just over 700,000 votes cast for the SNP, representing around 30 per cent of the total votes cast.
As of last week, over five million voters under 30 had cast their votes before election day – double the number of votes cast by young voters at that time in 2016, according to The New York Times.
Bowman received 1,785 votes, or 56.24 percent of votes cast.
Having won majority of votes cast in Bokkos, Pankshin, and Kanke Local Government Areas by a clear margin of over three hundred thousand votes, Gotom said verifiable indices show that his main opponent in the APC had lost and had no chances of survival.
In the runoff, the candidate who earns a majority of votes, or more than 50% of votes cast, will be named mayor.
The Vice President polled 629 out of the total valid votes cast, beating competition from Kennedy Agyepong, Member of Parliament for Assin Central, who garnered 132 votes.
This disparity, between the total votes cast and the votes counted towards the final result, was caused by “ballot exhaustion”, or the elimination of ballots that do not mark a preference for each candidate during later rounds of tabulation.
A recount is automatically triggered in Arizona if the margin between the two candidates who received the most votes is equal or less than half a percent of the total votes cast, according to Arizona law.
Directors are elected by a plurality of votes cast, without regard to either broker non-votes or proxies as to which the authority to vote for the nominees being proposed is withheld.
In fact, except for the U.S. Presidential Election now and then, wins every race with more non-votes than the sum-total of all votes cast for all the candidates in each race.
Magufuli, 61, was with 12.5 million votes, or 84% of votes cast, and is to be sworn into his second term in a ceremony on Thursday.
That will account for the vast majority of the total votes cast, and only the tightest races will be affected by the remaining votes that will be counted 10 days after Election Day, on Nov. 13.
The attorneys defending election officials argue Trump is in effect seeking a recount, which isn’t allowed in Arizona unless the margin between candidates is 200 votes or less, or one-tenth of 1% of the votes cast, whichever is the smaller number.
The logic behind the reform may feel familiar: Mainers were wary of a three-way race in which the winner may not have achieved a majority of votes cast but would still get all four of the state’s electoral votes.
The other candidates are objecting to the inclusion of votes cast without any biometric devices, saying that such votes are fake.
Excluding votes by Musk and his brother Kimbal, the measure passed with about 73 percent of votes cast.
In its solo outing at the polls, the Alliance For Change (AFC), the other partner in the governing coalition, was able to amass 8,719 votes, representing 4% of the total number of votes cast, according to the official results.
Mnangagwa was confirmed winner of the tightly contested election by the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) last week, with 2,4 million votes, representing 50,6 percent of the votes cast.
Votes cast were 2.6 million and valid votes 2.5 million.
Since votes cast for her appear to have not been counted, it can't be determined how many votes she received, but it was more than none.