Example sentences of "who voted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many of the Andalucian farm workers who voted for the Socialists in 1982 and 1986 are turning to Mr Pacheco 's party to voice their discontent . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward . |
| 3 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 5 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a clear majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 6 | The people who voted for what are called ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ fascist ’ parties in France and Germany seem to have mostly done so , however mistakenly , for one reason only : fear that the stability of their countries is threatened by unassimilable immigrants and bogus ‘ asylum-seekers ’ . |
| 7 | Sir , — Can I thank the 20,033 people who voted for me last week . |
| 8 | With my electoral role number marked on the counterfoil , through a sorting process my vote and anyone else 's vote could be traced to who voted for who . |
| 9 | In victory , Major sidled up to the MPs who voted for his rivals , including one-nation characters such as Chris Patten , Kenneth Clarke and William Waldegrave , who had rallied to the reassuring establishment figure of the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 10 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 11 | It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years . |
| 12 | The people who voted for the puppy are up in arms . |
| 13 | The final phrase carried a suggestion that they might be willing to fight for the League , but it seems unlikely that this thought had crossed the minds of many of the young gentlemen who voted for it . |
| 14 | Most of the MPs on the Select Committee on Transport are Tories who voted for the bill , now nearly through the House of Commons . |
| 15 | This embittered minority included not only Greeks who chose to vote for the Communists , when these were eventually relegalised , but a large number of those who voted for the Socialist Party that Andreas Papandreou created in 1974 . |
| 16 | Of those who voted for Reagan many did so without great enthusiasm and a ‘ large ’ if indeterminate , proportion of Reagan 's support came from people who went to the polls to vote against President Carter' . |
| 17 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 18 | The seventy nine of you who voted for banning hunting , a are you all townees , do you not understand th the fabric of er , of the country ? |
| 19 | In this sense they claim to be concerned with the interests of all their constituents , and not just those who voted for them . |
| 20 | It is a much debated question whether those who voted for these resolutions were truly representative of their countries ' educators and whether the debate preceding them was fairly conducted . |
| 21 | The vast majority of readers chose to take the option of voting for two favourite animals , but those few who voted for just one ( which was then counted twice in the tallying up ) tended to favour the elephant , specifically the African elephant , followed by tiger , otter and pig . |
| 22 | In Italy , a referendum in 1988 produced an 80 per cent majority who voted for closure of its two nuclear reactors and against any further spending on a nuclear power programme . |
| 23 | A person who is elected is not a delegate of those who voted for him . |
| 24 | They were all excellent measures , as my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin who voted for them so enthusiastically , will confirm . |
| 25 | THE Foyle Labour Party Press officer Len Green has thanked the people across Londonderry who voted for the party in last week 's local government election . |
| 26 | On March 12 Bernard Tapie , who was chair of the Adidas sports concern and owner of the Marseilles football club , and who headed an " Energie-Sud " list backed by the PS in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , was fined F1,500 ( US$265 ) for calling the FN and those who voted for it " salauds " ( " bastards " ) at a rally on Jan. 28 ; he was also ordered to pay symbolic damages of one franc each to three FN leaders . |
| 27 | Of the 121 members who voted for the opposition amendment the very great majority — indeed , a majority of the total Labour Party in the House were Labour members . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought — am I wrong ? — that you were one of those who voted for Duke William as heir . |
| 29 | Wilkes had many levels of supporters , from the Middlesex freeholders who voted for him , through City interests " independent " of those linked through finance and contracting to the government , to the " middling sort " of householder . |
| 30 | Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " . |