gubernatorial election

collocation in English

meaningsofgubernatorialandelection

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gubernatorial
adjective
uk
/ˌɡuː.bən.əˈtɔː.ri.əl/
us
/ˌɡuː.bɚ.nəˈtɔːr.i.əl/
relating to a governor (= the official leader of a state in ...
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election
noun[C or U]
uk
/iˈlek.ʃən/
us
/iˈlek.ʃən/
a time when people vote in order to choose someone for a political or ...
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(Definition ofgubernatorialandelectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In addition, the timing of a state'sgubernatorialelectionrelative to the presidential election cycle proves important.
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In the longer run, the critical 1946gubernatorialelectionwrecked the party's more progressive faction for almost two decades.
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He is a writer and won thegubernatorialelectionas an independent candidate.
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The year in which agubernatorialelectionoccurs relative to the presidential election cycle is also likely to affect candidates' vote shares.
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I look exclusively at thegubernatorialelectionfor reasons of convenience.
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Previous studies reporting no relationship between state economic conditions andgubernatorialelection results were likely to have been driven in part by a handful of sparsely populated states.
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However, to assess the coattails effect accurately, we also must include a dummy variable that indicates whether agubernatorialelectionwas held in a presidential election year.
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Aomori was to have a secondgubernatorialelectionin one year.
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Specifically, we identify a simple but strikingly important mediating factor that qualifies the connection between state economic conditions andgubernatorialelectionoutcomes - the structure of the state economy.
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Although our results indicate that relative state economic conditions have a statistically significant impact ongubernatorialelectionoutcomes, the question remains whether it is a substantively significant impact.
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Turnout was higher than the previousgubernatorialelectionbecause of the increasingly competitive nature of the race between the two parties.
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Each district was to be approximately equal in population, based upon the voting in the previousgubernatorialelection; thus redistricting was done every four years.
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Being a non-presidential election and few contested races, turnout was much less than the previousgubernatorialelection.
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He would then endorse his lieutenant governor for the 2014gubernatorialelection.
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He adopted a hard-line segregationist stance and used this stand to court the white vote in the nextgubernatorialelectionin 1962.
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To be ratified it must again achieve an absolute majority of those voting in thegubernatorialelection.
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Turnout was slightly more than the previousgubernatorialelectionbecause there was a somewhat organized opposition candidate.
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Vacancies in the lieutenant governor's office have been filled by special elections in 1811, 1847 and 1943, or were filled at the nextgubernatorialelection.
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The 1995gubernatorialelectionwas novel in several ways, following a 1992 constitutional amendment.
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