Sentence examples for election leaving from inspiring English sources

The 62-year-old Qatari withdrew from the election, leaving Sepp Blatter to be re-elected unopposed.

Bin Hammam, a former head of the Asian Football Confederation, withdrew from the election, leaving Sepp Blatter to be re-elected unopposed.

Farron said he hoped to learn lessons from the former Labour prime minister as he seeks to rebuild the Liberal Democrats' electability after they were all but wiped out in last year's general election, leaving them with just eight MPs.

Many of them boycotted the last election, leaving a provincial council dominated by a Kurdish bloc.

All know that money can decide an election, leaving officeholders beholden to big donors.

Labour exceeded expectations in the general election, leaving Theresa May a diminished prime minister overseeing a hung parliament.

On Thursday, Fianna Fail is likely to lose a parliamentary by-election, leaving the government yet more dependent on the two wavering independents.

In the Second Congressional District, which includes Topeka and the liberal college city of Lawrence, Representative Lynn Jenkins decided to not seek re-election, leaving Republicans without an incumbent in a district that could swing left.

No well-known Republican from the state's broad political center came forward to challenge Robert G. Torricelli, the incumbent Senator up for re-election, leaving the field to relatively unknown candidates.

In Montana, Gov. Judy Martz, a Republican whose popularity plummeted through a difficult four-year term, chose not to seek re-election, leaving the field open to a tight race between the Democrat, Brian Schweitzer, a farmer who has campaigned hard on the weak performance of the state's economy, and the Republican candidate, Secretary of State Bob Brown.

Labor and the Liberal Democrats, Britain's third major party, took some of the wind out of his sails by not contesting the by-election, leaving Mr. Davis to compete against an idiosyncratic lineup that included candidates from the Church of the Militant Elvis Party, the Make Politicians History party, and the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.