Candidates
Meanings and phrases
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- None of the other candidates reached the 10% mark.
- None of the other candidates exceeded the 5% mark.
- McDonald won that race over two other candidates.
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- Other presidential candidates challenged the election results.
- Many presidential candidates set up campaign headquarters in Des Moines.
- "Gangnam Style" has been used by presidential candidates during elections.
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- The list of candidates was published on 6 April 2018.
- The definitive list of candidates was presented on September 30, 2006.
- Electors are barred from signing for more than one list of candidates.
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- No independent candidates registered to contest the election.
- He defeated independent candidates Md.
- Also running were two independent candidates: former Republican U.S.
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- By the autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election.
- By the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election.
- In addition to the candidates above, the following candidates lost in the primary election.
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- Of all candidates, Bach was the only one without a university education.
- He received the most preferential votes of all candidates in the election.
- Note that, apart from Group A, all candidates appeared in the ungrouped column.
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- NIFTY Next 50 constituents are thus potential candidates for future inclusion in NIFTY 50.
- CNTs are potential candidates for future via and wire material in nano-scale VLSI circuits.
- He presented himself as one of the potential candidates in Somalia's 2012 presidential elections.
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- There are a number of candidates for location of the Ballymacsliney.
- Kadis endorsed a number of candidates in the 2007 Ontario general election.
- He was selected after a search committee considered a number of candidates.
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- No third party candidates won these elections.
- In the general election, Dilan won the seat with 87% and defeated three third party candidates.
- Nominations for party candidates closed on 8 November, and for independent candidates on 9 November.
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- 2 Conservative candidates were elected unopposed.
- No candidates were elected from either ballot in 2003.
- Three SNP candidates were elected in the 2016 election.
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- Qualifications for political candidates were amended to require New Zealand citizenship.
- In the UK, political candidates "stand for election", while in the US, they "run for office".
- In the Downsian model, political candidates commit to ideologies on a one-dimensional policy space.
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- The declaration was followed by speeches from both candidates.
- Chances of both candidates in second round were considered balanced.
- Other positions in the party hierarchy were divided between supporters of both candidates.
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- Civic Democratic Party was considering possible candidates at the time.
- Patrice Breland was amongst the list of possible candidates for the Senate.
- Other possible candidates included Giuseppe Civati, PD, and Valdo Spini, ex-PSI.
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- A total of 313 candidates contested this election.
- 2017 was the first time 31 candidates contested from a single ward (164).
- A total of 331 candidates contested the remaining 59 seats up for election.
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- Altogether 392 candidates ran for seats in the Soviet.
- A total of 850 candidates ran for the 91 available seats.
- Five candidates ran for the open seat.
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- No third party candidates won these elections.
- Three different candidates won the first three contests.
- Five out of 25 female candidates won a seat.
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- The votes are for party or coalition lists of candidates for each of the 28 administrative divisions.
- On 13 March 2018, the Independent Electoral Commission announced 58 lists of candidates were selected for the senatorial election.
- The electoral law provides that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors are allowed to present lists of candidates.
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- The top two candidates faced off in the November general election.
- The top two candidates of Nova Esperança, José Pereira Coutinho and Rita Santos, are both Macanese.
- In 1941 he finished 5th in a Boston School Committee race where the top two candidates were elected.
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- 819 candidates stood, compared to 905 at the previous elections.
- Note: no UKIP candidates stood in this election, compared with two in 2016 and six in 2014.
- In total 1,485 candidates stood in the election but the main fight was between the PML-N of Nawaz Sharif and the PPP of Benazir Bhutto.
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- Governor candidate from the two candidates running.
- These are elected during municipal elections from candidates running in Eindhoven.
- The incumbent president, Alexander Lukashenko, was one of the candidates running for office.
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- This period was extended on request of several candidates.
- Bell Shoals Baptist Church has hosted several candidates forums.
- The Libertarian Party ran several candidates in the District of Columbia.
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- Other possible candidates included Giuseppe Civati, PD, and Valdo Spini, ex-PSI.
- Harbor Commission candidates included Robert Bernardo, Sabrina Brennan, and William Klear.
- Also, the candidates included all players, from both professional sports leagues such as the NBA or the EuroLeague, etc.
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- In Barking and Dagenham, it saw 12 of its 13 candidates elected to the council.
- In Maharashtra, Rajiv Satav and Chavan were the only Congress candidates elected.
- Among the People Power candidates elected was the station's CEO, Raymond Chan Chi-chuen.
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- Five out of 25 female candidates won a seat.
- Deaconesses helped female candidates for reasons of modesty.
- In those days, famous medical schools in England and America refused admission to female candidates.
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- The video have been negatively commented by opposition candidates.
- Various campaigners for opposition candidates, as well as many within the Labour Party, made homophobic comments about Tatchell.
- Three Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMP) seats were offered after the election to the top three losing opposition candidates.
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- The leading candidates with the largest number of votes were elected.
- Teng started the season as one of the leading candidates for the season MVP.
- During the campaign, Halla-aho and Sampo Terho emerged as the leading candidates, according to opinion polls.
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- RUP is the only PR system of the three that lets voters rank individual candidates in order by preference.
- Many parties are fielding individual candidates both on joint electoral lists and contesting the list-based seats.
- (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates.
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- Each party is expected to nominate candidates for parliament separately.
- Political parties nominate candidates for partisan elections according to their charters.
- The party filed a petition to nominate candidates under the name "Industrial Government Party."
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- Only the two most successful candidates from the first round participate in the second round.
- It also organises examinations and issues certificates of proficiency to successful candidates.
- Only the two most successful candidates from the first round would've been able to participate in the second round.
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- Fourteen candidates nominated for the mayoral election.
- A total of 887 candidates nominated for the election, down from 896 at the 2014 election.
- Detailed below are all of the candidates nominated to stand in each ward in the upcoming election.
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- The group ran a successful slate of candidates in a Calgary Board of Education election.
- A PAC, Pinellas Democrats PAC, endorsed a slate of candidates and ran an ad attacking Heller.
- Parties nominate a slate of candidates (generally, one per seat in each district where the party is competing).
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- Of the remaining ten candidates, "The Press" labelled them a mixture of eccentrics, tryers and also-rans.
- The Pirate Party stood ten candidates in the 2017 general election, the highest number in the party's history.
- From 1925 to 1945, according to the year, some eight to ten candidates were admitted on the 60 to 100 who applied for the selection.
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- In the 2015 general election, Mebyon Kernow fielded candidates in all of the constituencies in Cornwall.
- The short-lived Anti-Masonic Party was formed, which fielded candidates for the presidential elections of 1828 and 1832.
- The CLP fielded candidates at the 1975 federal election, winning one seat each in the Senate and in the House of Representatives.
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- Gannon was one of five general election candidates put forward by the Social Democrats to contest the 2016 general election.
- The controversies caused the Republican Party to look for ways to prevent its election candidates from making similar comments about rape.
- Shortly before usual campaign period for the 2013 elections, the Electoral Affairs Commission of Macau banned the use of commercial advertising by election candidates.
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- The morning after the election, the major candidates were neck and neck.
- By the 1980 campaign, all three major candidates stated that they had been born again.
- Roosevelt, meanwhile, declined to run again on a third party ticket, leaving Hughes and Wilson as the only major candidates in the race.
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- Parties are allowed to place as many candidates on their "ticket" as there are seats available.
- With attrition rates averaging from 70 to 100%, many candidates self eliminate during this portion.
- In the summer of 1990, Douglas auditioned for the German hard rock singer Doro Pesch and was chosen among many candidates.
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- Protectionist candidates received a plurality of the vote.
- Pro-free trade candidates received a majority of the vote.
- Nineteen candidates received votes during the first ballot.