recent election
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrecentandelection
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recent
adjective
uk/ˈriː.sənt/us/ˈriː.sənt/
happening or starting from a short ...
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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 ofrecentandelectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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By 2000, both traditional human rights organisations and the morerecentelectionmonitoring teams conceived of the 'right to democratic governance' as a human right.
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Onerecentelectionworth noting was the 1990 general elections.
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The independent variables include labor union strength, government partisanship, andrecentelection.
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These are, we believe, the largest such differences found in such analyses of anyrecentelection.
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This series provides detailed accounts of the run up to each election from 1945 until the mostrecentelection.
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The issue of free basic services (including water and electricity) has, therefore, also been a major theme inrecentelectioncampaigns.
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It might better explain why a workplace smoking ban passed in the mostrecentelection.
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In fact, over the entire 1920-94 period, the six largest yearly estimates of the effect of incumbency are obtained in the six mostrecentelectionyears.
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The analysis also tests for the impact of the interaction between economic performance and partisanship on policy choice, controlling for variations in economic openness, indebtedness,recentelection, and time period.
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In therecentelectionthere were some tellers outside.
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But they are the qualities that won us therecentelection.
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We have had some experience of that in therecentelectionin the case of one or two of the departed.
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I said so repeatedly during therecentelection.
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During arecentelectionone of my canvassers was bitten by a dog and had to be taken to hospital.
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I believe that there was a candidate in therecentelectionwho stood on such a platform.
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Is that the doctrine which won the counties for the party opposite at therecentelection?
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We must be equally determined to carry through the promises made in therecentelection.
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As we saw during therecentelection, they have strong voting preferences and are important in that regard.
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Shipbuilding is the lifeblood of the area and the fear of redundancy, which was one of the features of therecentelection, is very real.
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That task will not necessarily have been made much easier by the outcome of therecentelection.
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