Sentence examples for standing for elected from inspiring English sources

Not only did the candidates respond, but the Chancellor said he had no objection in principle to similar disclosures being required of others standing for elected office.

If the MP is found to be guilty of breaking electoral law, she could be barred from standing for elected office for three years, as happened to the former Labour immigration minister Phil Woolas in 2010 when he was found to have lied about his Lib Dem rival.

He wants measures put in place to prevent corrupt people or criminals from standing for elected office.

Is it whether this system or that system of arranging which candidate standing for election gets elected is better or worse?

At the time the candidate was elected, he was disqualified from standing for election.

Ahok is standing for election early in 2017, hoping to retain the governorship he won after his predecessor, Widodo, was elected president in 2014.

Candidates standing for election are listed below.

Several army commanders are standing for election.

It would be the first such convention since those of the 1890s that drew up Australia's present constitution with the British monarch at its centre.Some 609 candidates are standing for the 76 elected convention positions.

Mr Fico is standing for re-election.

In this they had their work cut out: just a quarter of those standing for the 2015 election were women, and of the 650 MPs elected, a mere 191 were female.