Sentence examples for major elective office from inspiring English sources

(Corey Cook, a political science professor at the University of San Francisco, notes that the last "out" Republican to win major elective office in San Francisco, where just 9.5 percent of voters so identify, was George Christopher, elected mayor in 1956).

In the few months since he became the city's first Asian to win a major elective office, Mr. Liu has been transformed.

And, as the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University puts it, no woman in the country's history has spent a greater amount of money earned entirely by herself on a race for major elective office.

John C. Liu, 44, New York City's feisty and ambitious comptroller and the first Asian-American to win a major elective office in the city, has at times been at odds with the Bloomberg administration.

Here we also are with somebody trying repeatedly to undermine black candidates for major elective offices in New York City and State -- governor, mayor and United States senator.

After a career spanning three decades in elective office, United States Representative Major R. Owens kicked off his final campaign yesterday, an event that drew some of the biggest names in Brooklyn to support the man who succeeded Shirley Chisholm in Congress.

No former mayor of New York has won federal elective office since Fernando Wood was elected to Congress in 1862.

In some Council districts, former elected officials are trying to return to elective office.

Mr. Markey was first elected to Congress in 1976, and Mr. Gomez has never held elective office.

Nearly a year ago John C. Liu made history when he won a City Council seat in Flushing, Queens, one of the city's major centers of Asian-American life, and became the first New Yorker of Asian descent to win elective office.

She has never held elective office.