Sentence examples for contested in general from inspiring English sources

While most Southern states are reliably Republican enough that they are barely contested in general elections, there have been signs in past elections that weakness in Southern states during the primary season can spell trouble for Republican candidates.

In 1948, aged only 23, she was chosen as Conservative candidate for Dartford, which she contested in the general elections in 1950 and 1951.

"No evidence" of electoral fraud has been found in the Thanet South seat contested in the general election by Nigel Farage, police have said.

The subject of 'static PDF' versus 'dynamic online' articles has been hotly contested in the literature, the general consensus being that PDF is semantically limited by comparison with other online formats and is thus antithetical to the spirit of web publishing (Lynch, 2007; Renear and Palmer, 2009; Shotton et al., 2009; Wilbanks, 2007).

The electoral district was first contested in modern times in the 1977 General Election.

But Rallings and Thrasher say the picture looks worse when you consider the 27 byelections where a seat was being contested that was last contested in May, on the day of the general election.

The court then made the statement that "Mr. Dowling's presence in the house was not seriously contested in the case but he stated the general defense.

For Dr Mahathir, the general election was the toughest he has contested in his 19 years at the top.

Since the mid-1980s, the MQM has won every poll it has contested in Karachi and it did so again in last Saturday's general election.

She won the seat for South Cambridgeshire in May's general election, succeeding former health secretary Andrew Lansley, who had held it since it was first contested in 1997.

Often the benefits are contested in addition to the risks.