Sentence examples for stand for mayor from inspiring English sources

Writing on observer.co.uk, former Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell, who is standing down as MP for Dulwich and West Norwood and intends to stand for mayor of London, says the capital's hospitals have returned to the sort of crisis levels she saw when she entered parliament 23 years ago.

Will she stand for mayor again?

Grass-roots chavista radicals had backed Mr Samán's bid to stand for mayor of Caracas.

He has already mused that he might stand for mayor of Bogotá.

Last June, Sam Kooiker decided to stand for mayor of the city.

Proclaiming innocence, Mr Mallon pleaded guilty only, he says, to quit the police and stand for mayor.

Jello Biafra The Dead Kennedys warbler stood for mayor of San Francisco in 1979.

"When I stood for mayor in 2013, we did the sums and only Shanghai and New York had bigger municipal budgets.

When Ms Dalziel stood for mayor, she assured voters that she knew what Christchurch needed, and urged its people to put her to the test.

The former shadow mental health minister Luciana Berger stood for mayor of Liverpool but was not selected locally for the candidacy, which went to Steve Rotheram, Corbyn's parliamentary private secretary.

Then there was Sverre Flate Bjorkavag, 28, a committed party activist who stood for mayor in his small town of Sula, on Norway's west coast.