Sentence examples for contested constituency from inspiring English sources

He also recounted the story of voters he met in a keenly contested constituency in the assembly elections.

"It is a fascist party," says Arif Alvi, the PTI's candidate in the contested constituency.Against this background, Mr Khan accused Mr Hussain of openly threatening PTI workers through public broadcasts.

But the pressure on UMP will be severe in those contested constituencies.

A poll carried out for Ashcroft across 26 of the most closely contested constituencies in May suggested that there had been a 6.5% swing from the Conservatives to Labour.

A quarter of pensioners have not decided how to vote, according to a Mori poll for Help the Aged, and over the next few months they will form one of the most fiercely contested constituencies of the election.

With seven candidates standing, Wavertree is one of the most highly contested constituencies on Merseyside.

Polling has been wide of the mark in the past, but victory would be particularly sweet for the former taxman, trounced by Modi when they both contested the constituency of Varanasi in May's general election.

The party, which has been registered since February 2015, contested 32 constituencies across the UK at the 2015 general election.

People Before Profit fielded a candidate in West Belfast and CISTA (Cannabis is safer than alcohol) contested four constituencies.

And like post-industrial US towns in places like Ohio, Dudley is in a key electoral region - the West Midlands - that features hotly contested marginal constituencies, as working-class voters are torn between big-government economic policies, free-market advocates and anti-establishment, populist appeal.

With 48percentt of the total vote counted, Khan's PTI was listed by the ECP in its provisional results as leading in 113 of 272 contested National Assembly constituencies.