"aspirants" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to those aspiring towards a certain goal. For example, "The pageant was full of ambitious aspirants hoping to win the title of Miss Universe."
Related: Republican elite swarm New Hampshire as host of 2016 hopefuls take the stage The full-to-bursting roster of Republican presidential aspirants expanded again over the weekend after John Kasich, the governor of the crucial swing-state of Ohio, laid the groundwork for a run on the White House with an unusual attack on Wall Street.
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That team is Derby, currently least convincing of all the top-flight aspirants.
The alternative view of the Republican contest is that it is at risk of turning into a circus, with a plethora of aspirants, few of whom stand any chance of winning the nomination – never mind the White House – damaging the reputation of the GOP as they drag the party to the right.
Eight candidates are running, following a purge of hundreds of other aspirants by the Guardian Council, a panel of clerics and lawyers, half of them appointed by Mr Khamenei.
But rumours and counter-rumours keep flying.On one level, this is a struggle between two presidential aspirants on the right: Mr Sarkozy and Mr de Villepin.
Still more will find themselves out of work on election night, as the recent round of redistricting threatens several middle-of-the-road representatives in Illinois, North Carolina and elsewhere.Neither candidate has provided much help to congressional aspirants from his party, so neither will have many personal favours to call in.
He joins Ségolène Royal, his former partner and the party's defeated 2007 presidential candidate, as well as younger aspirants like Manuel Valls and Arnaud Montebourg.
His advisers had floated the names of various possible successors to François Fillon, the prime minister, and these aspirants were jockeying frenziedly.
But he remains the overwhelming favourite.Most other aspirants are first-timers.
