Sentence examples for election incumbent from inspiring English sources

Some seminaries in Qum rely on the government for funds, and Ayatollah Khamenei and the man he has declared the winner of the election, incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have powerful backers there.

On Monday, on the eve of Israel's closely-fought election, incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu found himself the recipient of such aid when the 75-year-old tough guy actor declared his support "I watched Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech before Congress, and I saw a man who loves his country with all his heart and soul.

In Santa Paula's City Council election, incumbent Leslie H. Maland, 66, received top billing with 3,324 votes, but the other incumbent, Al Escoto, was unseated.

In the election, incumbent president Didier Ratsiraka lost to Marc Ravalomanana, but rejected the results; after the election, Ratsiraka declared the city of Toamasina as the new capital of the country.

Then again according to prominent Los Angeles talk show host Tavis Smiley, the candidates in the 2012 election, incumbent President Barack Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney both also neglected mentioning the poor and the unemployed as a campaign issue.

Absentee ballot controversies have led to lawsuits in mayoral races from Miami-Dade to Volusia County.The winner of the Miami-Dade election, incumbent Mayor Carlos Giménez, was pictured with alleged boletera Daisy Cabrera who was later busted taking 19 absentee ballots to a Hialeah post office during the grand opening of his campaign office last July.

But while Mrs. Lincoln survived to fight on in the general election, incumbents in both parties could not take much solace from the outcome in Arkansas.

If the economy is improving strongly in the months before an election, incumbents do well; if it's stagnating or retrogressing, they do badly.

Another study has shown that this is true at the local level as well -- when the home team wins on the weekend before the election, incumbents see a small increase in voter support.

First Peacetime Sri Lankan Elections Incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa is re-elected President with 58% of the vote against 40% for opposition leader General Sarath Fonseka.

The BNP has split―and, however much they try to fix elections, incumbent governments in Bangladesh always lose.Bangladesh's voters are for the most part a tolerant bunch with surprisingly astute political judgment.