Sentence examples for Elected from inspiring English sources

A Labour party member from 1950, he had acted as an election agent in 1959 and was elected to the local council in 1966.

On being elected to office in free and fair elections in 2007, the president knew he needed to make tough choices if he was going to deliver change for his people.

From the million-pound apartments of Deansgate to the red-brick terraces of Moston, so many tens of thousands of people here didn't bother to vote at the last election that Lucy Powell, the incumbent Labour MP, was elected in a 2012 byelection with just 12% support in the lowest parliamentary poll turn out since 1945.

Last month's shadow cabinet reshuffle saw Harriet Harman take on the role of shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport, while Dan Jarvis, who was elected MP for Barnsley Central in a by-election in March this year, has been made shadow culture minister.

He was elected to a full term in 2000 before losing his re-election bid in 2006.

(It may have banged another nail into the coffin of elected local authorities with its suggestion that electoral officials need closer central supervision and more uniform standards).

In a hypothetical Venn diagram, one circle representing extremist Christians and the other fundamentalist capitalists, the lens-shaped overlap contains Sam Brownback, the newly re-elected governor of Kansas.

But we all feel it's crucial that Caroline Lucas, the Green party's sole MP at this time, should be re-elected in her Brighton constituency on 7 May.

However, this warm welcome does not extend to his party and that is the real message that Livingstone must take away with him if he wants to be re-elected as London mayor in 2012.

All four main party leaders were re-elected, topping the polls in their constituencies.

Despite rising dissatisfaction with his leadership, Kuchma was re-elected in 1999, but a protest movement calling for his resignation gained momentum in the early 2000s.