Example sentences of "in [adj] elections [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He secured for his Jatiya Party a victory in parliamentary elections held in March 1988 [ see pp. 35835-36 ] ; however , the government was subsequently paralysed by renewed agitation launched in October 1990 [ see pp. 37775-76 ] with student activists at the forefront . |
| 2 | His party won the majority of seats in parliamentary elections held in March [ see p. 38801 ] . |
| 3 | Jasray , 60 , a free-market economist and former head of a union of private co-operatives , had been nominated on July 15 by the fourth plenum of the Mongolian People 's Democratic Party ( MPRP ) which won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections held in June [ see p. 38962 ] . |
| 4 | Other reports indicated that the proposed law had been prompted by fears that recent events in Algeria would encourage Islamist parties , who won one-third of the seats in parliamentary elections held in November 1989 [ see pp. 37052-53 ] , to mount an extra-parliamentary challenge . |
| 5 | The ruling Congress ( I ) party won control of 70 of the 95 municipal committees in municipal elections held in Punjab on Sept. 6 . |
| 6 | In municipal elections held in 55 communes and in provincial elections in La Spezia ( Liguria ) on Dec. 14-15 the federalist Northern League rose to become the largest party in northern Italy , and increased its support in central Italy , at the expense of the Christian Democratic and Socialist parties , whose support was halved in the north . |
| 7 | Instead , he announced the appointment of an ombudsman to mediate between the public and the civil service , promised that proposals for democracy would be considered soon , and said that the opposition would be permitted to run in legislative elections expected in April 1994 . |
| 8 | Pascal Lissouba , leader of the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy ( UPADS ) , was victorious in presidential elections held in August , UPADS having emerged as the largest party , but without a clear majority in either chamber , in the legislative elections in June and July . |
| 9 | In local elections held in Lower Saxony on Oct. 6 the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) share of the vote dropped from 46 per cent to 43.1 per cent while the SPD , which continued to control the Land government in conjunction with the Greens [ see pp. 37676 ] , won 40.2 per cent of the vote ( down from 40.5 per cent in 1986 ) . |
| 10 | In local elections held in May and June , the ruling Nepali Congress Party won 77 per cent of seats in 56 of the 75 Nepali council districts , according to Agence France-Presse news agency reports on June 28 . |