successive election
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successive
adjective[before noun]
uk/səkˈses.ɪv/us/səkˈses.ɪv/
happening one after the other without ...
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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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That is why his majority has increased at everysuccessiveelection.
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However, a number of them are measures which we have committed ourselves to repeal insuccessiveelectionmanifestos.
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She was re-elected at eachsuccessiveelectionuntil she retired from politics at the 1954 general election.
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He continued his journey of winning each election with higher margins in everysuccessiveelectionfrom 1972 onwards.
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By comparing the relative policy emphases in the same party's programmes at two successive elections, one can chart the changes in the party's policy priorities.
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In effect, the authors provide a run-down of successive elections, the parties and individuals that contested them and what the results were.
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It is possible, for instance, for a party to benefit (or suffer) from the economy in two successive elections.
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Gauging the effects of past behaviour on current behaviour non-experimentally requires one to track a set of individuals across successive elections, charting their personal and contextual characteristics along the way.
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Vote shares are computed by simply adding votes cast for parties over successive elections, and taking proportions of the total.
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I think there have been now three successive elections in which the revolutionary candidate has been defeated by the constitutional candidate.
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The authorities and successive elections which they organised were supported by the army.
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Because we did not do that, we suffered at successive elections.
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It has a small majority of 400 or 500 on the electoral register, but this ensures that it is elected at successive elections.
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Both political parties have in successive elections moved into a situation of opposing such a move for a variety of very powerful and understandable reasons.
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At two successive elections the electors of this country have voted in a majority for parties opposed to nationalisation.
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Nevertheless, we worked amicably together over successive elections between 1964 and 1969.
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They have not done so in any great numbers in successive elections.
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They know that it is an admirable service and that has been demonstrated in four successive elections.
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There has been a fall in turnout at successive elections and a general lack of interest in many of the issues that we discuss.
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That is what happened in 1918 and at successive elections since.
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