Polling
in sentence
165 examples of Polling in a sentence
Since the first
polling
companies were created in the US, the UK, and France in the 1930's, they have asked questions about happiness and attitudes about the future.
Bombs went off in the INEC office in Suleja, near the federal capital, on the eve of the polling, killing several election officials.
Attahiru Jega, a university teacher and chairman of the INEC from August 2010, overhauled a sclerotic and corrupt election machinery, put in place a new and credible voting register, and retrained and deployed his staff to 120,000
polling
stations in a vast country – all in six months.
Experts ridiculed these claims, but
polling
suggests that the advertisements were nevertheless effective, and a number of Democratic incumbents, and women in particular, lost elections that year.
Rather than view recent
polling
as referenda on market reforms, or on capitalism versus communism, these votes show how much East European politics now resemble politics in the West: interest groups rule.
His party’s victory in all three states (which no political pundit or
polling
organization had predicted) was a personal triumph and consolidated Congress as the lynchpin of the opposition’s drive to defeat the BJP in the coming general election.
Besides, as the respected
polling
analyst Karlyn Bowman recently demonstrated, the US public is by no means strongly opposed to trade.
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone company, conducts direct online
polling
of consumers to find out what innovations they would like to see.
According to post-referendum polling, three-quarters of “Leave” voters expect Britain’s economy either to strengthen or to be unaffected by Brexit, and 80% believe the government will have more money to spend on public services as a result of their vote.
The main
polling
organizations have also been brought under Kremlin control.
They also cite the intimidating presence of Kurdish militia and secret police near
polling
stations.
And in the early days of his presidency, the French public is behind him, too; recent
polling
puts his approval rating at 62%.
Russian opinion
polling
and sociological research tends to show that the higher one’s position in society, the more likely one is to vote for the incumbents.
But nasty politics is nothing new, and much of the evidence for loss of trust in government comes from
polling
data, which weighs responses that are sensitive to the way questions are asked.
Many Republican-controlled states have instituted burdensome identification requirements at
polling
stations.
And some local governments have purged such voters from electoral rolls, reduced the number of
polling
stations, or shortened their hours of operation.
The opposition estimates that, at more than a third of the
polling
stations, Ortega’s Sandinista party counted the votes alone because the opposition PLI alliance was not allowed to have supervisors present.
My guess is that on
polling
day, Prime Minister David Cameron will emerge holding this asset.
In 2008, not a single woman cast a vote in 31
polling
stations in Punjab, Pakistan’s most liberal province.
During the last general election, in 2013, female voter turnout was less than 10% at 800
polling
stations across the country, and in 17 districts, fewer than 5% of eligible female voters cast a ballot.
In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders and his far-right Freedom Party are
polling
strongly ahead of next month’s election.
In holding that referendum, he and his party bypassed the official institutions that oversee Mexican elections, not only selecting the
polling
sites themselves, but also counting the votes.
Votes will be cast in 828,804
polling
stations scattered throughout the country for over 5000 candidates from seven national political parties and several state and other parties.
The numbers involved are so huge that the elections will be staggered over five phases, ending only on May 13, with electoral and security personnel being moved from state to state as
polling
is concluded in each place.
(There is even one
polling
booth for a single voter, who lives too far from civilization to travel to another
polling
station.)
There was a time when, in certain parts of India, workers could stuff ballot boxes for a candidate and political parties could “capture”
polling
booths.
Most Polish citizens opposed the move, according to recent
polling.
In the party’s primary last November, early
polling
had predicted a win for Alain Juppé, a prime minister under Sarkozy’s predecessor, Jacques Chirac, and had put Fillon a distant third behind Sarkozy himself (who was seeking to stage a political comeback).
This may explain recent
polling
data showing that public concern about global warming has declined precipitously in the last three years.
Trump’s recent
polling
gains say less about his improvement as a candidate than they do about Clinton’s own weaknesses and bad luck.
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