Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "pre-election".
This is the paper, remember, that began to sniff the fake purge before the election, but then swallowed what a secret pre-election memo from the state to DBT’s Bruder called the “Department of Elections News Coverage Game Plan”.
Although Dinkins became the city's first black mayor, his slender margin of victory came as a surprise, for pre-election polls showed Dinkins winning by nearly 15 points.
Senate in 1990, he garnered nearly 20 percent more of the vote than pre-election polls had projected, an indication that thousands of Louisiana voters did not want to admit their preference for a candidate with racist views.
Roosevelt, in his famous pre-election panic, had promised the rich everything.
Hillary won her election, 55–43 percent, a much larger margin than she had in all the pre-election polls but one.
Although Dinkins became the city’s first black mayor, his slender margin of victory came as a surprise, for pre-election polls showed Dinkins winning by nearly 15 points.