Sentence examples for upset election from inspiring English sources

Spaniards are still struggling to absorb both the shock of the terror attacks and interpret the result of the upset election on Sunday.

The tide began to turn with the upset election of President Hassan Rouhani, a centrist, in 2013, on a promise of negotiating a nuclear agreement and getting international sanctions lifted.

Hamas's upset election victory in 2006 was built largely on despair with the corruption, misgovernance and authoritarianism of the ruling Fatah, led by Yasser Arafat until his death two years earlier.

Mr. Cramer, whose upset election to Congress in 1954 foreshadowed a Republican resurgence in the South, served in the House from 1955 to 1971 and became a builder of the party in his home state and across the region.

SEOUL — After leading the besieged governing party to an upset election victory, Park Geun-hye on Thursday visited the national cemetery, where the dead of the Korean War are buried, and wrote in a visitors' book: "I will create a new South Korea".

But European and American diplomats, while seizing on Mr. Ahmadinejad's comments as loathsome and destructive, also noted a spate of recent reports in Iran that the 49-year-old president, who took office in the summer after winning an upset election, was under attack there from political figures viewed in the West as moderate.

His party, the Justice and Development Party (A.K.P ., which has Islamist hues, has dominated the political scene since upset elections in 2002, and has evolved into Erdoğan's personal tool.

Major victories for so-called "Berniecrats" include Larry Krasner's win in the Democratic primary for Philadelphia's district attorney; Christine Pellegrino's upset special election win for a State Assembly seat in a New York district that voted for Trump; and Lumumba's election in Jackson, Mississippi.

Nearly seven years ago, Mohammad Khatami won an upset presidential election over the candidate favored by conservative mullahs, electrifying an Iranian population fed up with almost two decades of clerical dictatorship.

Such was the calculus that brought Mr. Cameron to this bastion of the Liberal Democrats, the third party that has upset all election predictions with the surging popularity of its leader, Nick Clegg.

His innovative approach and telegenic personality brought early success in 1958 with a major upset by-election victory for himself and increased support for the Liberals in other by-elections.