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electoral contest

collocation in English

meanings of electoraland contest


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electoral
adjective[before noun]
uk /iˈlek.tər.əl/ us /iˈlek.tɚ.əl/
relating to ...
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contest
noun[C]
uk /ˈkɒn.test/ us /ˈkɑːn.test/
a competition to do better than other people, usually in which prizes ...
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Examples of electoral contest


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About 60 other parties also joined the electoralcontest, both within and outside the major contending alliances.
Who can afford to think of the next decade, let alone the next millennium, when the next, crucial electoralcontest is probably only a year or two away?
Similarly, when citizens vote for the winners in more than one electoralcontest, they should be more trusting than when they voted for the winners in only one.
Another contributing factor in my view is that in many of these wards there is no effective electoralcontest.
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The present law prevents these officials from becoming directly involved in the inter-party electoralcontest.
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Their purpose is simply to clarify matters and to provide an even playing field for the parties in the electoralcontest.
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I expect the election to be exceptionally exciting because it will cover such a large number of areas which form the basis of any decent electoralcontest.
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The practice has been to make up in the intervening years to him that which he did not receive for the work he legitimately performed during the electoralcontest.
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When that electoralcontest was annulled due to evidence of fraud, a second one was held a year later.
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A second mechanism concerns the vulnerability of radical political groups participating in electoralcontest to state repression.
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While donors generously finance post-conflict or founding elections, funds become scarcer for subsequent electoral contests.
For challengers, how well they do in electoral contests is directly related to how much campaign money they raise and spend.
Also, national subsidies tended to be allocated to 'swing' provinces in which electoral contests are competitive.
Electoral contests are generally won with the influence of money.
The turnout, greater than 50%, compares favourably with other electoral contests around the world.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I see the question of rent being brought into the arena of ordinary electoral contests in the municipalities.
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Debate, discussions, controversy and, in due course, electoral contests there will be, and there should be.
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That is a privilege which no one who has had experience of electoral contests can possibly deny to them.
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I firmly believe that the greater involvement of women in political life, especially at the national level, will be assisted by genuinely free competition between candidates in electoral contests.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Electoral contests and political disputes often have personal overtones and voter sway tends to be based on tradition.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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