The phrase "a left candidate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a political candidate who aligns with leftist ideologies or policies.
Example: "In the upcoming election, a left candidate is expected to challenge the incumbent from the right."
Alternatives: "a progressive candidate" or "a liberal candidate".
Sometimes touted as a left candidate for the general secretaryship of the TUC, Christie opted for a return to Scotland, where he had strong social and political roots.
What those Latin American countries have in common, besides a lack of terrorists, is either a left-leaning president or a left candidate for president ahead in the opinion polls, leaders of the floodtide of Bush-hostile Latin leaders.
I doubt that it makes sense to run a left candidate against Obama in 2012.
Rhiannon, known as a hard left candidate, has been a sitting Greens member since 1999, first in the NSW upper house until 2010 and subsequently in the federal Senate.
Corbyn-supporting grass-roots campaign group Momentum and Stop the War Coalition were planning to put a radical left candidate up against Ms Creasy in a deselection attempt, according to reports.
But whether he wanted a "broad debate", as he claimed in an excitable tweet filed that day soon after Corbyn hugged him with gratitude, or calculated that the presence of a hard left candidate would help whichever of the Three Stooges he actually does support, he made his choice with seconds to spare before Big Ben struck midday.
In between, he stood as an Independent Green Left candidate in the first round of London assembly elections in 2000, where he garnered just 22,000 votes without any party funding to support his campaign.
The New York Times points out that the two principal television networks, which together control 95percentt of Mexican broadcasts, displayed a strong bias against the left candidate, and The Guardian, a British daily, charged that millions of PRI dollars fueled favorable coverage of Peña Nieto while he was still governor of the State of Mexico.
Mr Cruddas is seen as a centre-left candidate with a strong record in fighting the British National party and as sympathetic to expanding the rights of workers.
Isn't it about time we had a female governor of Tokyo?" Meanwhile one of Koike's rivals, Shuntaro Torigoe, a respected journalist running as a left wing candidate, has seen his campaign plagued by a sex scandal more than 10 years old, where he is alleged to have seduced a 20-year old university student.
Then there's Andrés Manuel López Obrador (also known as AMLO), a left wing candidate (PRD), and former mayor of Mexico City, branded as divisive by some but also loved by the poor and disenfranchised.
