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 Translation for 'general elections' from English to Portuguese
eleições {f.pl} parlamentaresgeneral elections
eleições {f.pl}elections
unverified general {adj}general
general {m}general
unverified comum {adj}general
geral {adj}general
unverified
engen.
mecânica geral
general mechanics
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Usage Examples English
  • Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use the first-past-the-post system for UK general elections but versions of proportional representation for elections to their own assemblies and parliaments.
  • The Conscription Crisis of 1918 further intensified public support for Sinn Féin before the general elections to the British Parliament on 14 December 1918, which resulted in a landslide victory for Sinn Féin, winning 73 seats out of 105, whose Members of Parliament (MPs) gathered in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to form Dáil Éireann and adopt the Declaration of Independence.
  • In the November 2001 general elections, Ortega lost his third successive presidential election, this time to Enrique Bolaños of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party.
  • was created by a faction of leaders from the PRD, and has since become the predominant opposition party, polling in second place for the May 2016 general elections.
  • After the Nigerian 2015 general elections, Nigeria's 8th National Assembly still accommodates the Calabar-South/Akpabuyo/Bakassi Federal Constituency represented by Hon.

  • Balsall Heath is part of the Birmingham Hall Green constituency for general elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
  • The British National Party has contested general elections since 1983.
  • Following the popular support in the first multi-party elections of 1991, the communists retained a stronghold in the parliament until the victory in the general elections of 1992 led by the Democratic Party.
  • The US Government hoped that successful general elections would be an optimistic indicator of the Burmese government's sincerity towards eventual democracy.
  • The general elections in 1997 were rescheduled for 5 September 2008.

  • The only significant challenge came from Plaid Cymru at the 1970 and February 1974 General Elections but this performance has not since been repeated.
  • In 1974, Widdecombe was personal assistant to Michael Ancram in the February and October general elections of that year.
  • On 7 October 2013, the day after filing his nomination for the 2014 general elections as running mate of Ashraf Ghani, Dostum issued a press statement that some news media were willing to welcome as "apologies": "Many mistakes were made during the civil war (…) It is time we apologize to the Afghan people who were sacrificed due to our negative policies (…) I apologize to the people who suffered from the violence and civil war (…)".
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