Sentence examples for an election contested from inspiring English sources

In an election contested by around 100 parties, the front-runners are Nahda and the more secular Nidaa Tounes coalition.

Voter turnout surged seven percent this election, which is shocking for an election not contested on a central national issue like the conduct of a war or the implementation of a major economic policy.

Following is a provision of Florida law that allows the results of an election to be contested once they have been certified.

THE country was in an uproar: A closely contested election had left the nation uncertain about who was to be the new president of the United States.

Paul Ryan wants to be Speaker of the House but he wants a coronation, not a contested election.

"Without a physical record of votes cast, how will election officials in 2004 be able to launch an effective, honest recount in a closely contested election?

"We have just had a very vigorously contested election, but the election is over," Mr. Obama told them.

Labour has dominated in the last three elections, winning every seat in the county in 1997 and 2001 but losing two in 2005, but in a closely contested election a lot of seats are up for grabs.

Mr Williams said, outside court, in a statement: "This was a hotly contested election run in challenging circumstances.

In 1951, in a closely contested election, he was elected President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee defeating N G Ranga.

He stood as an independent in 2014 in a bitterly contested election.