When the Mikołajczyk's People's Party ( PPP ) continued to resist pressure to renounce a ticket of its own outside the communist party bloc, it was exposed to open terror, including the disqualification of PPP candidates in one quarter of the districts and the arrest of over 1000, 000 PPP activists, followed by vote rigging that resulted in Gomułka's communists winning a majority in the carefully controlled poll.

He also said that " some unnamed people have done huge damage to Fine Gael through their anonymous comments to the media which has resulted in an opinion poll dominating the news agenda ".

This irregularity was added to a litany of complaints against the poll in Rotterdam in these elections ( many of which were caused by the PvdA ), which resulted in a recount of all the votes cast.

Though the sentiments expressed in the Orewa speech differed little from established National Party views ( as voiced previously by Bill English, for example ), these comments resulted in National receiving an unprecedented boost in a public opinion poll.

In the United Kingdom, a poll of 3, 000 engaged or married couples resulted in an average duration between first meeting and accepted proposal of marriage of 2 years and 11 months, with the women feeling ready to accept at an average of 2 years and 7 months.

In 2009, a public poll on GameSpot resulted in him being voted the All Time Greatest Video Game Hero.

Members of CTC were unhappy with this decision, but a poll of the membership resulted in the majority who voted agreeing to this change.

A BBC website poll, resulted in 64 % of voters stating that his work was their favourite.

Its abilities, which allow the player to strengthen it by discarding cards or removing cards in the graveyard ( discard pile ) from the game, resulted in Psychatog being labeled " broken " ( overpowered ) by players ; in an online poll conducted in 2002 at Magicthegathering. com, 35. 9 % of respondents said they believed that printing Psychatog had been a mistake.

An April 2009 Rasmussen Reports poll, conducted during the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010 ( which many believe resulted due to lack of regulation in the financial markets ) suggested that there had been a growth of support for socialism in the United States.

With aspirations of support from right-wing voters, all candidates with low levels of poll support for the nomination took this same " sabre-rattling " stand.

In July 2006, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted an online poll ( publicised by Reporting Scotland ) in which voters could choose a national anthem from one of five candidates.

During the 2001 elections, however, alleged irregularities and dubious practices led to a boycott of the run-off poll by the main opposition candidates.

If none of the candidates obtains such majority, a second poll will take place 45 days later, at which the population will decide between the two candidates that had the best results during the first poll.

Wilkes stood in London and came in bottom of the poll of seven candidates, possibly due to his late entry into the race for the position.

Thus, as poll results are repeatedly reported, the bandwagon effect will tend to snowball and become a powerful aid to leading candidates.

With no other candidates nominated, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh was declared elected to be the fifth president of Ireland without a poll.

With no other candidates nominated, Hillery was elected without the need for a poll and was inaugurated as the sixth President of Ireland on 3 December 1976.

In a poll from the Asia Times before the 2004 U. S. Presidential Election, Korean Americans narrowly favored Republican candidate George W. Bush by a 41 % to 38 % margin over Democrat John Kerry, with the remaining 19 % undecided or voting for other candidates.

He stood as one of 49 candidates for election to the 19 places in the Shadow Cabinet in the internal Labour Party poll of October 2010.

Where there are an equal number or fewer candidates than there are vacancies, all candidates are elected unopposed, and no poll is taken.

Where there are more candidates than vacancies, a poll must be held.

Thirdly, this kind of poll can be used by candidates or political parties to convince primary challengers to drop out of a race and support a stronger candidate.

The first is known as a " cue taking " effect which holds that poll data is used as a " proxy " for information about the candidates or parties.

For instance, in Canada, it is prohibited to publish the results of opinion surveys that would identify specific political parties or candidates in the final three days before a poll closes.

Smitherman and his staff were also pressing some of Rocco Rossi ’ s key supporters to switch ; Rossi soon dropped out due to being unable to improve poll numbers but did not endorse any other candidates.

* Opinion poll results indicate either of the two main Democratic presidential candidates would beat President Bush by at least 10 points.

In some jurisdictions, a coin is flipped to decide between two candidates who poll equal number of votes in an election, or two companies tendering equal prices for a project.

The day after the convention was finished, the polls showed a double-digit lead over Kerry, although when the poll asked about the economy both candidates were still in a dead heat.

Deeds poll are used for this purpose in countries including the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore.

A Globescan BBC poll on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ( 2009 ) found that 23 % of respondents believe capitalism is " fatally flawed and a different economic system is needed ", with that figure rising to over 40 % of the population in France ; while a majority of respondents including over 50 % of Americans believe capitalism " has problems that can be addressed through regulation and reform ".

" His most famous poem, " On the Ning Nang Nong ", was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.

By the 1890s, many Southern states had strict voter eligibility laws, including literacy tests and poll taxes.

Many writers since the 1970s had been hailed as his successor, but none had attained anything near his popularity with children and, in a poll conducted shortly after the launch of Philosopher's Stone, seven of the ten most popular children's books were by Dahl, including the one in top place.

In a poll of sports fans conducted by ABC Sports, Thorpe was voted the Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century out of 15 other athletes including Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth, Jesse Owens, Wayne Gretzky, Jack Nicklaus, and Michael Jordan.

Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and black civil rights leaders ( including Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King, and Bayard Rustin ) worked out a compromise with MFDP leaders: the MFDP would receive two non-voting seats on the floor of the Convention ; the regular Mississippi delegation would be required to pledge to support the party ticket ; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll.

) However, the many-worlds interpretation has been gaining acceptance ; a controversial poll mentioned in " The Physics of Immortality " ( published in 1994 ), of 72 " leading cosmologists and other quantum field theorists " found that 58 % supported the many-worlds interpretation, including Stephen Hawking and Nobel laureates Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman.

At the same time, a group of rebels led by Johanna Ferrour stormed the Tower of London and summarily executed those hiding there, including the Lord Chancellor ( Simon of Sudbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was particularly associated with the poll tax ), and the Lord Treasurer ( Robert de Hales, the Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitallers of England ).

Despite receiving the greatest critical acclaim of any album in Prince's career, including being named the top album of the year by the Pazz & Jop critics ' poll, and eventually selling 3. 2 million copies, album sales steadily declined.

In 2004, a poll of actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Ian McKellen, Donald Sinden, Janet Suzman, Ian Richardson, Antony Sher and Corin Redgrave, acclaimed his Lear as the greatest Shakespearean performance ever.

Acclaimed by directors including Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick ,, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound " Directors ' Top Directors " poll 2002.

The 2002 Sight & Sound poll of film critics and directors did not place Rio Bravo in its top ten, but it did find it to be the best film directed by Howard Hawks, with 7 votes, surpassing seven of his other films, including His Girl Friday ( 5 votes ), Red River ( 4 ), To Have and Have Not ( 3 ), and Bringing Up Baby ( 2 ).

A huge critical and popular success, the series received a number of awards, including several BAFTAs and in 2004 was voted sixth in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll.

A concerted drive, including a poll ( scrutinised by the Electoral Reform Society ) to select the track, saw " Bunsen Burner " — with music sampled from the Trammps song " Disco Inferno " and lyrics devised to help his daughter with her chemistry homework — reach number nine in the UK Singles Chart on 6 October, and earned Otway an appearance on Top Of The Pops, BBC Television's flagship popular music programme.

Featuring a much more progressive sound than their earlier works, Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk won the ' album of the year ' poll in many popular metal magazines around the world, including UK Terrorizer and US Metal Maniacs.

" Some 100 current conductors, including Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev and Mariss Jansons participated in the BBC poll.

In early March 2007, a poll of Labor Party primary voters put Barak ahead of all other opponents, including Peretz.

Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and publishing research or poll or the ' filing of friend of the court briefs '.

Northwestern's football team has made 73 appearances in the top 10 of the AP poll since 1936 ( including 5 at # 1 ) and has won eight Big Ten conference championships since 1903.

During the 2006 – 07 season, the once-moribund Cougar men's basketball team achieved unprecedented success, including its first Top 10 ranking under then first-year head coach Tony Bennett, reaching as high as No. 9 in the AP poll on 2-20-07.

Based on 99 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, The Truman Show received an average 95 % overall " Certified Fresh " approval rating, including a 90 % among 20 critics in Rotten Tomatoes ' " Top Critics " poll ; the websites consensus states " A funny, tender, and thought-provoking film, The Truman Show is all the more noteworthy for its remarkably prescient vision of runaway celebrity culture and a nation with an insatiable thirst for the private details of ordinary lives.

In modern times Southampton Village boasts great ocean beaches including Cooper's Beach, which was voted # 3 in a recent national poll.