Sentence examples for contested the vote from inspiring English sources

Of those who contested the vote?

That, supporters of Mr. Gore said, left the impression that he was a sore loser when he contested the vote.

An opposition candidate, Almazbek Atambayev, who trailed Mr. Bakiyev with 8percentt and withdrew his candidacy during the balloting, has contested the vote.

The current leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who contested the second round vote against the incumbent President Jaques Chirac in 2002, is finally bowing out.

Early this month, in a Paris court, Mr. Edelman contested the Taittinger family voting rights in Societe du Louvre.

Video obtained by the BBC's Persian-language service appears to show people at the funeral chanting in support of Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, two reformists who ran for president in 2009 and contested the results, claiming that the vote count had been rigged in favor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

His populist rival, Norbert Hofer, the candidate of the extreme-right FPÖ party (Freedom Party of Austria), who emerged from the first round easily leading with 36percentt of the votes, immediately contested the second-round results before the constitutional judge.

His nearest competitor, Michael Sata, who received 29.37 percent of the vote, made claims of voting irregularities and contested the election.

The Freedom party contested the outcome of May's vote after claiming to have detected formal irregularities in 94 out of 117 constituencies, submitting a 150-page formal complaint to the constitutional court.

In the 2010 general election he contested the Barking constituency polling 6,620 votes and finishing in third place.

His nearest competitor, Michael Sata of the Patriotic Front (PF), made claims of voting irregularities and contested the election.