electoral

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In May, the electoral board confirmed there would be no voting in any of Tigray's 38 constituencies.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

When he was caught in electoral fraud in 2019, he was forced to resign.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Before entering electoral politics, Durazo was a longtime labor organizer and served as the first female leader of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 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

The federalist fervor, which the exiles had pictured as a powder keg about to explode, had dissolved into a vague electoral illusion.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez