Which preposition to use with electors

of Occurrences 217%

The electors of Westminster, who had sent him to Parliament, never ceased to have faith in his truth and honour, and re-elected him when still in prison.

in Occurrences 24%

Lord Cockburn (Life of Lord Jeffrey, i. 74) describing the representation of Scotland towards the close of last century, and in fact till the Reform Bill of 1832, says:'There were probably not above 1500 or 2000 county electors in all Scotland; a body not too large to be held, hope included, in Government's hand.

OF Occurrences 19%

[30] ADDRESSED TO THE ELECTORS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

for Occurrences 13%

They cannot otherwise punish the candidate so disqualified for offering himself, nor the electors for accepting him.

to Occurrences 9%

What qualifications must electors to that house have?

by Occurrences 7%

He had also incurred the displeasure of the Bristol electors by his manly defence of the rights of the Irish Catholics, who since the conquest of William III. had been subjected to the most unjust and annoying treatment that ever disgraced a Protestant government.

on Occurrences 6%

In some places, the electors on meeting have merely made a procès-verbal affirming the validity of their previous election, and reasserting the candidates then chosen as their actual representatives; in others they have proceeded to a new election; but in almost every case the very same individuals as before have been returned as members for the Parliament.

from Occurrences 6%

Lloyd George was dragged along by the necessity of not drawing away the mass of the electors from the candidates of his party.

as Occurrences 5%

The electors as a body were still too respectable to admit of direct electoral corruption showing itself on a great scale; but the favour of those entitled to vote was indirectly courted by methods far from commendable.

at Occurrences 4%

He escaped to Belgium, and studied socialism, which he expounded later to an admiring audience of seventeen to eighteen thousand electors at Belleville.

with Occurrences 2%

On Oct. 2nd at 9 in the morning I was admitted Fellow with the usual ceremonies, and at 10 I called on the Electors with my letter of acknowledgment.

into Occurrences 2%

All the caucus had to do under that measure was to divide the electors into three groups and with three candidates, A., B., and C., to order one group to vote for A. and B., another for B. and C., and the third for A. and C., and they carried the whole of their candidates and kept them for many years.

with Occurrences 2%

For the honest City Governor, Sir Heinrich von Geusau, during a walk on the banks of the Spree, had acquainted the Elector with the story of this strange and irreprehensible man, on which occasion, pressed by the questions of the astonished sovereign, he could not avoid mentioning the blame which lay heavy upon the latter's own person through the unwarranted actions of his Arch-Chancellor, Count Siegfried von Kallheim.

in Occurrences 2%

2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

against Occurrences 2%

The Sheriff, in great perplexity, made a special return, reporting that "Mr. Fitzgerald was proposed, being a Protestant, as a fit person to represent the county in Parliament; that Mr. O'Connell, a Roman Catholic, was also proposed; that he, Mr. O'Connell, had declared before the Sheriff that he was a Roman Catholic, and intended to continue a Roman Catholic; and that a protest had been made by several electors against his return.

around Occurrences 1%

Don Andrés had a smooth tongue and a seraphic smile that simply wound alcaldes or rebellious electors around his little finger, and his specialty was the art of letting loose a rain of sealed documents over the District that started complicated and never-ending prosecutions against troublesome opponents.

under Occurrences 1%

Electors under modern conditions are not going to obey the "orders" of even the "most drastic caucus"whatever a "drastic caucus" may be.

among Occurrences 1%

The old method of apportioning electors among the states was also kept.

to Occurrences 1%

Without further ado he forced the two Electors to terms and joined the Saxon army to his own.

before Occurrences 1%

The election was over so far as I was interested in its result; but I was determined to have a parting word with the electors before leaving the town.

out Occurrences 1%

When the ballot boxes were opened on the first Tuesday in November, Lincoln was found to have secured the electoral vote of every Northern State except New Jersey, and in New Jersey four electors out of seven.

than Occurrences 1%

How utterly inadmissible such plural voting would be under the suffrage given by the present Reform Act, is proved, to any who could otherwise doubt it, by the very small weight which the working classes are found to possess in elections, even under the law which gives no more votes to any one elector than to any other.

Which preposition to use with  electors