Sentence examples for contesting candidate from inspiring English sources

People's Action, a voting advocacy group, organized "Meet the Candidate" events, coordinated through neighborhood Resident Welfare Associations, where each contesting candidate met with voters in an assembly.

In the first contest, candidates affiliated with the revived Communist Party emerged as the largest single group, winning approximately one-fifth of the seats.

At some points in the nomination contest, candidates who were penalized in the polls after enduring big losses rebounded fairly quickly.

With just five days to go until voting opens in the Labour party leadership contest, candidates Liz Kendall and Andy Burnham have used YouTube videos to make their personal appeals to voters.

In areas "where the emigrant vote can be decisive in close contests, candidates have sufficient incentives to carry their electoral campaigns abroad, which means that absentee voters will then be no less exposed to candidates and issues than the electorate at home" (Bauböck, 2003, p. 714).

Back when the GOP primary was still a legitimate contest, candidates from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn).

In those contests, candidates spent a combined total of just under $367 million — and outside groups spent more than $683 million.

In those contests, candidates spent a combined total of just under $367 million — and outside groups spent more than $683 million.

A sitting Congressman dies in office, resigns in disgrace, or is appointed to the U.S. Senate; the governor schedules a peculiar off-cycle contest; candidates wage last minute campaigns in relative political isolation.

Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate contesting Douglas's reelection to the U.S. Senate in 1858, suggested a series of debates.

The more candidates contesting a constituency seat, the greater the probability that the winning candidate will receive only a minority of the votes cast.