Sentence examples for legislative contests from inspiring English sources

The information extends from the presidential race to state legislative contests.

Doing well in legislative contests requires recruiting and campaigning for hundreds of candidates.

The legislative contests in Albany are sure to be a top priority, too.

But their role in legislative contests in past years has been less aggressive than that of religious opponents.

Intense interest in the presidential election is expected to bring a massive voter turnout that many politicians believe could affect legislative contests.

It averaged some 10 percent of the vote in the first two parliamentary elections (1999 and 2004) but dropped to about 5 and 6 percent of the tally, respectively, in the 2009 and 2014 legislative contests.

It is not as expensive as a statewide race, but $15,000 isn't a lot of money in a legislative contest, either.

After opposition candidates won four seats in the 1991 legislative contest, their numbers in the 1997, 2001, and 2006 polls dropped to two each time.

He won a Legislative Idol contest years back.

That, in turn, could have an impact on the candidates running for the United States Senate and the hundreds of others competing in legislative and county contests.

A key reason for Republicans' relative strength in legislative and congressional contests was low turnout, which often harms Democrats as Latinos, young voters and other groups that lean toward the party sit out the election.