There was a general election, in which bribery and the purchase of seats were shamelessly employed.
A general election in England in September of this year made it plain that the temper of the people was no less bitter and determined in the mother country than in the colonies.
This sort of thing did not matter in 1880; but we are now within six months of a General Election, and any event which greatly elevates the Liberals and depresses our own people has a terrible effect.
A general electionis a trying time to all kinds of public men, but it is perhaps most trying of all to Christian ministers.
All the truth on any question is not very likely to be found put forward in the programme of any man or any party, and, even if it were, a general election is not the best time for you to find it out.
Suffrage may be extended by statute but such law must be ratified by a majority of the voters at a general election.
A general election was to be held in the fall of 1893, so that the verdict of the voters was soon to follow.
In the midst of this debate the people of New Brunswick passed upon the scheme in a general election, and condemned it in the most decisive and explicit way.
The government of New Brunswick appealed to the people on confederation by a general election, and have got beaten.
When there is a vacancy in the post of Prime Minister, or upon the first convocation of the Diet after a general election of members of the House of Representatives, the Cabinet shall resign en masse.
A general election followed, and the Government gained several seats, but not sufficient to give it a majority.
One of Peel's first tasks was to conduct a general election, and he had ample opportunities of judging how these things were managed in Ireland.
No easy duty on the brink of a general election, even had the Conservative Party been at Peace within itself.
There is no more perfectly organised body than the Licensed Victuallers; none whom ordinary members are more unblushingly anxious to conciliate on the eve of a general election.
In 1901, the first opening of Parliament by the sovereign in a new reign, after a long discontinuance of the ceremony, and the number of new members after a general election, combined to make the occasion exceptional.
Even at a General Election he steers as widely clear of politics as possible.
There can be no doubt that if the country were to express itself definitely upon any question at a General Election, no House of Lords would be strong enough (or weak enough) to attempt to thwart the public will.
Even if he ascends to what Mr. Gladstone would have called "measurable distance" of the top, his tenure is precarious; in the defeat of a Government at a General Election he too may fall.
At a general election in September, 1836, they decided with great unanimity in favor of "annexation," and in November following the Congress of the Republic authorized the appointment of a minister to bear their request to this Government.
A General Election, big with the fate of Ireland, was not far off.
According to the old law prescribing a dissolution of parliament within six months of the demise of the crown, Mr. Gladstone was soon in the thick of a general election.
In 1847 the fortunes of a general election brought Mr. Gladstone into relations that for many years to come deeply affected his political course.
The Liberal policy was to challenge the government to submit the issue to the people in a general election.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general election" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
