Sentence examples for stood for election from inspiring English sources

In the House of Representatives, 87% of the incumbents who stood for election were re-elected.

What's more, he has never even stood for election – locally, nationally, internationally – let alone actually been elected.

She stood for election to the student union.

The first time she stood for election she chose as her symbol a flower.

He goes on about the grass roots, but he has never stood for election".

That is not exactly the anti-austerity ticket on which Syriza stood for election.

On polling day 603 candidates representing 13 parties and 3 coalitions had stood for election.

Had Gorbachev stood for election as president, he might have won.

When he spoke, eight in ten American judges stood for election.

In our democracy, the people who represent the public stood for election..

IN 1956 Endicott Peabody stood for election as attorney-general of Massachusetts.