Sentence examples for stand for electoral from inspiring English sources

If nothing else, I am glad that a party has arisen which has attracted people of this calibre to stand for electoral office.

Gov. David Paterson of New York took a stand for electoral fairness earlier this month when he signed legislation that bans prison-based gerrymandering — the cynical practice of counting prison inmates as "residents," to pad the size of legislative districts.

The New York State Legislature took a stand for electoral fairness last year when it banned prison-based gerrymandering, the cynical practice of counting prison inmates as "residents" to pad the population of legislative districts.

Colleagues urged Charlton to stand for the state electoral district of Waratah, and on 5 December 1903 Charlton became the second member for the district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

The New York State Legislature can stand up for electoral fairness this week by passing legislation that requires prison inmates to be counted at their home addresses.

Above all, they believe in and stand for full, not semi-skimmed, electoral reform.

And if you dislike the policies of the government...participate in the electoral process, stand for election," he rhetorically told the soldier's attacker, in an interview with Sky TV which won big approval ratings on social media.

If he decides to run for another five-year term, he needs to file papers and stand for re-election by an electoral college of the national and provincial assemblies during the period from last Saturday through Oct. 15.

In one instance, he publicizes his goal to run in elections, but explains that he is going to contest a non-existing seat at a time when the Romanian Kingdom made use of the census suffrage and had established electoral colleges to stand for the three wealth-based categories, he claims his intention to enlist in the fourth college, for the sparsely-populated area of Bucureştii-Noi.

She's a former member of the Conservative Party who wanted to stand for election during the party's abortive electoral deal with the Ulster Unionists.

He can then stand for election again in 2014, with the whole electoral machinery having been installed by him personally.