Sentence examples for contested candidate from inspiring English sources

Patricia Ann Millett, who has worked for Democratic and Republican administrations in the past, is the contested candidate.

A1 Many Senate Republicans, angered by a bipartisan deal on judicial nominees, warned that they were eager to challenge the agreement by pushing forward contested candidates.

I set out to visit all the dusty museums, all the dark churches, and see all 50 or so securely attributed works by him, a figure that can never be quite final because numerous contested candidates seek admission to the corpus, from hamfisted pastiches to the Prado's rather plausible David and Goliath (click here to see the work).

Not only has it turned out to be contested, our candidate has dropped out".

Tuesday's results mean that roughly one of every five seats in the state's Congressional delegation will be contested by candidates with the same party affiliation.

PHOENIX (AP) -- A judge on Tuesday allowed contested Green Party candidates to remain on the November ballot in Arizona, denying a request that they be kicked off because Republicans allegedly recruited them.

It is also being contested by Green candidate Marianne Bamkin, UKIP's Alan Graves, Lib Dem Lorraine Johnson and Labour's Cheryl Pidgeon.

The election, held on October 30, was contested by four candidates, including Banda and Sata.

Although both candidates contested the election as independents, Mrs. Chan was supported by a coalition of democratic parties.

Out of the 283 remaining seats in Sunday's runoff elections, 113 are sure to go to the NDP because they are contested by NDP candidates.

Iowa's six electoral votes are being contested heavily by candidates and their campaigns, which have descended on the state in the final weekend of the campaign.