electoral
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Two other opposition forces -- ex-president Robert Kocharyan's "Armenia" alliance and the Prosperous Armenia party -- also cleared the electoral threshold to get into parliament, winning 9.9 percent and four percent of the vote, respectively.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
That narrative was always more wishcasting than the underlying electoral reality suggested.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
Consequently, the clause confers on Congress especially broad authority over state electoral systems and makes judicial second-guessing of legislation designed to ensure equal representation for all particularly improper.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
Yet when the 1896 presidential election pitted the soft-money populist, William Jennings Bryan, against William McKinley, the hard-money Republican, McKinley won the electoral majority, 271 to 176, and the popular vote, 51% to 46.7%, besides.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
That included Mr. Lincoln’s home state of Illinois; but to Jethro’s disappointment, it was not southern Illinois that gave the state’s electoral votes to the President.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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