noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a business/economic/election etc cycle (= related events in business, the economy etc that repeat themselves over a certain period )
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the presidential election cycle
a campaign/election promise
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He was accused of breaking a campaign promise not to raise taxes.
a campaign/election slogan
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His campaign slogan was ‘Peace, stability and prosperity’.
a party wins/loses an election
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Do you think the Labour Party can win the next election?
an election broadcast (= shown before an election to persuade people to vote for a party )
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a Labour party election broadcast
an election rally
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The senator was due to address an election rally that evening.
an election/campaign/manifesto pledge
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The governor had kept her campaign pledge to slash taxes.
an election/electoral campaign
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He was candidate in the 2008 election campaign.
an election/electoral defeat
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It was their worst general election defeat since 1982.
an election/electoral victory
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The Democrats were celebrating their election victory.
an electoral/election contest
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What will be the outcome of the electoral contest?
campaign/election trail
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politicians on the campaign trail
election/carnival etc fever (= great interest or excitement about a particular activity or event )
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Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.
election/market etc day (= the day when an election, market etc takes place )
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Wednesday is market day in Oxford.
election/sports/political etc coverage
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He claims the election coverage has been biased against him.
fight an election/a campaign
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The prime minister decided to fight an early general election.
forthcoming elections
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the forthcoming elections
free elections
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He became president following the country’s first free elections last year.
general election campaign
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during the 1987 general election campaign
general election
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during the 1987 general election campaign
hold...general election (= have a general election )
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an attempt to persuade the government to hold a general election
leadership election
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The next leadership election is due in November.
legislative elections
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legislative elections
primary election
seek election/re-election (= try to be elected or re-elected )
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He hasn’t decided whether to seek re-election.
win an election
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Which party is likely to win the election?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
congressional
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In the Congressional elections of 1942 the trend away from New Deal reform continued as the Republicans increased their numbers.
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More crime legislation is expected as the Nov. 5 congressional elections approach.
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It reflected growing concern about the level of spending on congressional election campaigns.
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As the country braces for congressional and municipal elections in March, reconciliation takes on particular importance.
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Next year brings the mid-term Congressional elections .
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There were even a few concessions to the responsive chords the Republicans struck in the 1994 congressional elections .
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State and local parties have also become significantly less important as campaign organizations for Congressional elections .
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And the last congressional election demonstrated that the tactical politics of Mediscare and Gingriphobia are inadequate.
direct
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Now he is giving himself the chance to be chosen by direct election again, thus gaining a mantle of legitimacy.
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His opponents say his return was a violation of a town code calling for direct election of the mayor.
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In the event direct elections were held.
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One made the protection of the environment a constitutional obligation; the other provided for the direct election of mayors and Landräte.
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It provided for a separation of powers, the establishment of a constitutional court and the holding of direct presidential elections .
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These would be the first direct elections under the 1976 Constitution to the second and third tiers of government.
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During municipal elections last December he pushed for direct elections, in place of the old system of lists controlled by party bosses.
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In direct elections for 272 of the 360 Supreme Soviet seats there were on average five candidates for each seat.
early
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Cossiga emphasized in a television interview that compromise had been necessary to avoid an early general election .
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Instead, the center-right opposition coalition that is leading the street demonstrations is demanding early elections .
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The bomb followed the announcement on Tuesday that early regional elections will be held in May.
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But the prospect of an early general election has concentrated minds.
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The financial strain of the earlier primary elections means there will not be a television-advertising blitz in California.
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Defeat on a confidence motion would prompt an early general election .
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An early election would have concealed these problems.
forthcoming
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He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections .
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Is the practice of marking each voting counterfoil with the electors electoral role number to continue in the forthcoming election ?
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The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections .
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Under the Bill parties must give half the candidates' places in forthcoming town council elections to women.
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Increasingly, the key domestic political issue was the forthcoming presidential election of 1992.
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He is running for a place on its ruling council in the forthcoming elections .
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Parties adopt or disavow policies not only to win forthcoming elections but also as a response to past electoral outcomes.
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The Labour Party is currently establishing Labour groups overseas in order to mobilise support for the forthcoming general election .
free
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The first genuinely free elections since 1945 were held in March 1990.
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All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years.
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The Bonn government said the resignation was insufficient and free elections must follow.
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Mazowiecki also conceded that the first fully free elections should take place later in the year.
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A democratic, parliamentary system of government has been set up with free elections at least once every five years.
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They also pressed for free elections .
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This government would subsequently organize free elections within nine to 12 months.
general
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At the general election on March 5, Haglelgam failed to secure re-election as the at-large senator for Yap.
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They lost in the general elections by the two biggest margins in the post-war period.
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All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years.
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Unemployment in his constituency has fallen by 37 percent. since the last general election .
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Rather than cut shabby deals, he should call a general election .
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Yet mass media coverage of general elections and parliamentary politics is highly personalized and concentrates on the party leaders.
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Gandhi was killed on May 21st, the day after the first of three days of voting in the general election .
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However, the legislation would not be applicable in the aftermath of the June 1992 general election .
legislative
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Chances are the competitive nature of state legislative elections will increase also.
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Abisala pledged to retain the majority of ministers in their posts until legislative elections , scheduled for Oct. 25.
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At the legislative elections in 1990 it had advocated a strongly right-wing economic programme.
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The government's unpopularity was demonstrated in the January 1991 partial legislative and local elections .
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All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform.
local
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Candidates in local elections can expect their followers not only to vote for them but to campaign for them as well.
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Major said holding local elections is the best immediate way to build confidence in the stalled peace process.
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The 32-year-old confirmed that he will be a candidate for the Northland ward in Londonderry in the local government elections in May.
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This is occasionally true in local elections , where the margin between candidates can be rather small.
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It is, of course, conceivable that the community charge will have a bigger direct effect on local elections in future years.
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One explanation is that the Conservatives have not fared well in local elections .
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At the political level, proportional representation was abolished for local elections in 1922 and for Stormont elections in 1929.
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There remains a local component in local elections .
mayoral
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The charges will start in January 2003, a year ahead of the next mayoral election .
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This year the midterm nosebleed will come with an extra agony: the London mayoral election .
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He won the mayoral election with a stunning 62 percent of the vote.
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Just possibly, the politicians might begin debating that as they campaign for November's mayoral election .
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Uncontested mayoral elections are becoming an Orlando tradition.
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If so, this November's mayoral election ought to be timely.
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In the seven days since the Grand Forks mayoral election was held, I've visited five area communities.
multiparty
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The new party was setting its sights on multiparty federal elections expected by the end of the year.
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Municipal polls held on Jan. 19 offered the first opportunity to vote in multiparty elections .
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In a radio speech on April 15, Eyadema predicted a new constitution within the year and multiparty elections .
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They would be the first free multiparty elections since 1946.
municipal
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The significance of their municipal election on June 30 stretches far beyond this unfortunate town.
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Allegations of fraud had tainted recent municipal elections .
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During municipal elections last December he pushed for direct elections, in place of the old system of lists controlled by party bosses.
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As the country braces for congressional and municipal elections in March, reconciliation takes on particular importance.
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Free municipal elections were last held in 1971.
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In 1943, the annual conference carried a motion suggesting all local branches put forward their own candidates for municipal elections .
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Labour's campaign in the weeks leading to municipal elections bore all the traces of populist pragmatism.
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With important municipal elections due in October, they were unwilling to be associated with his highly unpopular economic austerity policies.
national
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Later that month it was announced that national and state-level elections would be held in Punjab in mid-June.
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In national elections each candidate usually had the backing of one or more of the leading papers.
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The electoral system would not be changed before the National Assembly elections due in March 1993.
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But history suggests that true realignments occur over two national elections .
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This will have clear implications for voting patterns at local and national elections .
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The arrangement sprang out of Compaq winning a contract to supply hardware, which was used to manage the 1991 national elections .
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S.-brokered peace agreement in Bosnia as 2. 9 million people prepare to vote in national elections scheduled Saturday.
parliamentary
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In 1999, only 28 competed in parliamentary elections , down from 43 four years earlier.
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A parliamentary election dominated by his Communist opponents.
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Privatization has stalled since the parliamentary election last December.
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The 1993 parliamentary elections resulted in a conservative landslide.
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The last parliamentary elections were in 1968.
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The result of the parliamentary election of 1970 was, therefore, crucial to the final outcome.
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There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists.
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Under the new Constitution, the President would appoint a government on the basis of the results of the parliamentary elections .
presidential
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Female speaker I used to work for McGovern, who challenged and lost the Presidential election to Nixon.
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With a presidential election nearing, Republican challenger Ronald Reagan campaigned against the sale.
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But presidential elections are quadrennial affairs, whereas Superbowls happened annually.
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However, December 1990 saw genuinely democratic presidential elections .
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And Republican strategists are anxious to keep them within the fold for the 1996 presidential election .
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The vacuum created by the postponement of the presidential elections led to a revival of campaigns for a revitalized democracy.
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During the 1992 presidential election , Democrats spent less than $ 325, 000 in Texas.
primary
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This was odd, given that they had already been cleared before the presidential primary elections held last March.
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Nine of those will be chosen in a state-wide primary election on March 12, the traditional date for delegate selection.
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Success in primary elections , it would seem, can not simply be bought by political commercials however cunningly they are crafted.
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Jones now must try to implement the open primary law in time for the 1998 primary elections .
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We are proud to present the first quadrennial awards, to be known as Lexingtons, for outstanding contributions to primary elections .
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The financial strain of the earlier primary elections means there will not be a television-advertising blitz in California.
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By comparison, the turnout for the 1992 primary election was 29 percent.
recent
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That concentration has become marked in recent elections .
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Allegations of fraud had tainted recent municipal elections .
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His top priority is survival, not the mandate for sweeping change his followers won in recent parliamentary elections .
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In the recent elections , Bustamante, who had returned from exile, had been elected as a deputy to Congress.
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Elected representatives hold office for three years; the most recent elections were held in February 1990.
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In recent elections , Propositions 187 and 209 stirred racial and political passions.
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Yet the reconstruction of the nation is not part of the new politics as evidenced in all the recent elections .
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Anyone who has noticed recent elections knows that Alan won that bet.
■ NOUN
campaign
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Spending on election campaigns has multiplied.
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Do you ever get angry at some of the things that go on in election campaigns ?
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It reflected growing concern about the level of spending on congressional election campaigns .
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In the election campaign you are arguing that it's the guarantor of the transition.
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How can we reconcile the low frequency of expressions of emotional involvement in election campaigns with the high frequency of antagonistic partisanship?
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The Bishop of Oxford says this is the crucial moral issue of the election campaign .
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One of the issues in his last re- election campaign was that his eyelids frequently drooped during meetings.
day
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If the election campaign begins this low, it will sink below anything ever seen by election day .
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On election day , the regime brought contingents of troops into the city to vote for its candidates.
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The 10 p.c. gain since election day is looking increasingly sustainable.
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Yet he seemed eager for what is sure to be a grueling contest leading up to election day in June.
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Mr Hague's meeting last week was the traditional one granted to leaders of the major opposition party as election day looms.
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Primary election day is September 16.
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The expectation in both camps is that a bombing so close to election day would mean certain defeat for Peres.
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By election day , only 44 percent actually voted for it.
leadership
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I don't know if the general public has fully grasped just how undemocratic the present Labour leadership election rules are.
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Many observers say that if the leadership election were held now, Redwood could topple Major or at least come close.
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He had been moving towards resignation since being routed by Mr Smith in the July leadership election .
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Labour is now embarked on a leadership election .
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At the leadership elections expected today, it is their votes that will determine the outcome.
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There should be a provision for annual leadership elections in the Parliamentary Party.
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In the leadership elections scheduled for mid-February 1992 it was expected that Peres would be challenged by Rabin.
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So leadership elections are as much a threat as an opportunity for the left.
november
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Although Illinois is considered a pivotal state, California is by far the most important political prize in the November election .
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Nothing happened, however, because Congress was eager to adjourn for the November elections .
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Both sides suggested they may just fight out their dispute in the November elections .
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Jackson soon became involved with affirmative action, the November elections and numerous other controversies around the country.
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And then came the November elections .
result
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What would it be like to be black and watch the election result in Cheltenham?
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This becomes crystal clear when Tuesday's election results are read alongside results of February's special election.
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Does that affect the general election result ?
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He filed a complaint with the House of Representatives seeking to overturn the election result .
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The election result has left Green Party members confused, dismayed and dejected.
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Recognition of election results is not enough.
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His difficulty is that, as the election results showed, there is little optimism left in the population at large.
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Forecasts predicted that the overall election result would be close.
state
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Modern science Two of the fundamentalist board members were defeated in state elections last autumn.
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The Reform Party also has petitions pending with state election officials in Arkansas and Utah.
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It effectively ended when a new Legislative Assembly was formed following the November state elections .
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Those responding said they vote regularly in state elections .
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Successive state elections have seen the governing parties pummelled by a dismayed electorate.
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It could well lose this at the state election due in the autumn of 1994.
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At two state elections this month, Mrs Hanson stunned everyone by reappearing, fielding candidates and causing havoc with the results.
victory
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The Saatchi brothers made their names helping Mrs Thatcher to three election victories .
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Bill Clinton's two election victories in 1992 and 1996 owed everything to women voters.
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After this fourth successive Tory election victory , we think it would be better if a Labour Speaker had a turn.
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The election victories had lulled many of our supporters into a dangerous complacency.
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He came from far back in the polls to stage an upset general election victory in 1992.
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On 30 June the Gaullists completed their election victory .
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In the 1950s, 85 percent of all election victories resulted in a first contract.
year
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The party's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year .
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But before this election year is over, there could be a flood.
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This will comfort those on the Labour side who most feared negative Nice fallout in an election year .
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Now it looks like that bad idea will be played out during an election year .
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In this election year , books about politics are as plentiful as presidential primaries.
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I drew a parallel between the grinding plates and the grinding, unresolved pressures underlying this election year .
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Unfortunately, election year is looming.
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call
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He expected his successor to call elections in the autumn.
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Kwasniewski has said he may dissolve parliament to put the issue to rest and call for new elections .
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Delhi resembled an armed camp as the government pulled out all the stops to prevent a rally called to demand early elections .
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His opponents say his return was a violation of a town code calling for direct election of the mayor.
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The Prime Minister did not call an election on 7 November, because he knew that he would lose it then.
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Rather than cut shabby deals, he should call a general election .
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He had called the election three months before it was constitutionally due on the basis of favourable opinion polls.
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Whenever the Government want to call a general election , that is what we will do.
contest
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The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.
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No one there had expected a contested election .
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Half a dozen other parties also contested the elections without securing representation.
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The AFL-CIO elected John Sweeney as president last October in the first contested election in its history.
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The Tigers say they will not contest elections until there is peace.
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With 223 House Republicans elected so far, the winner in a contested election would need 112 votes to win.
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By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections .
fight
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He fought the 1987 election campaign.
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The Conservative and Unionist party will fight the next general election as the party of the Union.
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Is not that a terrible record on which to fight a general election , in which the Government will be defeated?
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Twenty parties are registered to fight the election and some of the smaller ones are making a respectable showing.
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There was a time when the provisionals sought to ride both horses simultaneously, fighting elections and plotting murder.
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He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections .
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It seems important, therefore, to try to establish how the decision to fight the election came about.
follow
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This question needs to be addressed, following the presidential election on May 20.
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It's said that the court follows the election results.
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Two other legislators were also reported to have joined the coalition following the elections .
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If that candidate wins a certain percentage of the vote, the party then would be recognized in the following election .
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A change in administrations following this years presidential election could affect how aggressively federal officials pursue the case.
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He played a key role in Clinton's transitionary team following the 1992 presidential election victory.
hold
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Gen Musharraf has promised to keep to a supreme court ruling that requires him to hold general elections by October 2002.
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Under conditions of a clear parliamentary majority, the choice of when to hold an election lies with the Prime Minister.
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We held our elections at the meeting.
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More likely, whoever was Prime Minister would advise her to dissolve Parliament and hold another election .
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In April 1950, Acheson told Rhee flatly that he had to hold elections .
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He challenged de Klerk to hold a whites-only election .
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The interim government was going to hold the first free elections in thirty years.
lose
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Yes, it has lost its fourth successive election .
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And what Republicans recall is that in each of those contests, the embattled party lost the national election .
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Labour claimed then that although it lost the election , it had the better campaign.
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Under his premiership, the Conservatives have lost one election after another.
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Dole is going to win or lose the election on his own.
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But the old idea that governments lose elections was proved wrong on April 9.
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Thompson also lost the election campaign.
stand
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If her party backed her, she said, she would stand in presidential elections later in the year.
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Of the 20 Cabinet ministers and ministers of state in the outgoing government to stand for election only four were returned.
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The right to stand for election still remained restricted to Matai.
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His party stood in these elections pledging to fight the undoubted problems faced by many constituents.
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He flatly rejected the pleas of Aung San to stand for election .
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Did you know that 30 Tory knights of shire and suburb are not standing at the election ?
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On Jan. 20 Chalerm, leader of the Muan Chon, announced that he would stand in the forthcoming elections .
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You have said that you will stand in the presidential election next April.
vote
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An elector in Britain has more opportunity to vote in local elections than in national ones.
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From a rational choice perspective, you would be rather foolish to vote in a presidential election .
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The first round of voting in the presidential elections took place on Aug. 2.
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A new town charter gives out-of-state property-owners the right to vote in local elections .
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Most of them had not voted in several elections .
win
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Political parties compete to win elections by submitting distinct programmes from which the electorate can choose.
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Nationally, Clinton won the election with 43 percent of the vote to 37 percent for Bush and 19 percent for Perot.
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However, the Catholic parties refused to take the seats they won in the assembly elections .
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In return for our consent, he swore he would give it up the day after he won the election .
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The call, the first by any network, created the false impression that Bush had won the general election .
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He is a moderate who won election and later was able to parlay that experience into national exposure as a Washington outsider.
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Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Independence/election/Christmas etc day
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By election day , many observers will question why Bill Clinton and Bob Dole were nominated and why they are running.
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It was July 1, almost Independence Day .
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Legislation to outlaw Christmas Day trading looks set to be in place in time for this year's festive period.
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She has a rat on top of the living room door on Christmas Day , for example, and it will last her two days.
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Then came the Christmas Day massacre, by an Inkatha mob several hundred strong.
come up for election/re-election/selection etc
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At each two-yearly election one-third of the Senate comes up for re-election.
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It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years.
snap election
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Henry McLeish also promised to address the deep disaffection among Labour backbenchers exposed by his snap election last weekend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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America is preparing for the presidential elections, which will take place in two weeks time.
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It will be interesting to see what happens at the next election .
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South Africa held its first multi-racial elections in 1994.
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Taxation will be one of the major issues at the next general election .
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The government may decide to call an election early.
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This is Sanders' fourth trip to Washington since his election as governor.
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This year's presidential election will take place on November 4.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A further general election in October of the same year gave him a majority of three.
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A period of uncertainty such as an election causes people to be either optimistic or pessimistic.
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Congressional elections are by universal and compulsory adult suffrage.
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Federal officials said that the law required them to withhold the keys while the election outcome was in doubt.
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It was soldiers returning from the battlefields who're credited with making that election a labour landslide.
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Ten cooperative candidates ran at the 1918 general election , only one of whom was successful.
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This must happen once in each Parliament, usually not later than thirty-six months after the last general election .
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Under this pressure the Modrow government set an election date of 18 March 1990.