First, because most of the contested seats in 2006 were in more conservative areas, Democrats often had a shallow "bench" of candidates waiting their turns.
The Home Office seems to have backed away from the Guardian report on Friday that ministers are considering an amnesty for some illegal immigrants - with later reports suggesting that this was a decade away (not least because of the provisional timetable for the contested issue of ID cards).
While discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are increasingly used in the field of environmental valuation, they remain controversial because of their hypothetical nature and the contested reliability and validity of their results.
The boundaries of the state included the contested area.
The economy also was the top issue out of three choices for voters in the Democratic primary, which none of the candidates contested because of questions over whether Florida's Democratic delegates will be seated.
The available results showed that the National Democratic Party, the governing party, won 11 of the 88 contested seats because its candidates ran unopposed in those districts.
These are some of the contested issues.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are longtime enemies because of a dispute over the contested territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Armenia had threatened not to broadcast the event or show the performance by Azerbaijan's contestant, Sabina Babayeva.
But because of the hotly-contested election results here, Florida's 25 electors were critical to giving George W. Bush the 270 votes he needed to win the presidency.
The more learned members of the congregation contested his scholarship.
The case was considered especially combustible because the contested site, in the city of Ayodhya, was the scene of a searing act of religious violence in 1992 when Hindu extremists tore down an ancient mosque known as the Babri Masjid on the property.
