Candidate in a sentence

Those at the meeting included the candidate for Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, candidate for Abia State, Uche Ogah, candidate for Enugu State, Ayogu Eze, and candidate for Ebonyi State, Sunny Ogbuoji.

If no one candidate gets over 50% of the vote, then the candidate with the lowest amount of first-place votes gets their ballots sprinkled with magic fairy dust, and their second-choice candidate gets elevated to the status of first-place votes.

The main fight here was between BJP candidate Rajesh Rana, Congress candidate Shailesh Rayka and AAP candidate Mukesh Pasiyawala.

Delegates may also vote “for the candidate of their choice whether or not the name of such candidate was placed in nomination,” and their votes are then tallied, assuming they voted for a bona fide Democrat who has agreed to be a presidential candidate.

Harris leads Trump by 0.2% in the RealClearPolling of polls from Oct. 8 to 22, with the gap to 0.6% when Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, independent candidate Cornel West and Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver are included in surveys.

Plurality, when a candidate earns more votes than any other candidate, is the lowest bar by which a candidate can win.

There will be an awful candidate, and a nice candidate, and a candidate who always says the right thing but never gets listened to, and is castigated in the boardroom for not speaking up.

One candidate beats another candidate in the popular vote, but based on they won, they actually get fewer delegates than another candidate.

The following candidates are running in Peace River South, incumbent and B.C. Liberal candidate Mike Bernier, B.C. Conservative Party candidate Kathleen Connolly, B.C. NDP candidate Cory Grizz Longley and Dorothy Sharon Smith.

The governorship candidate of the PDP, Engineer Oluwaseyi Abiodun Makinde was presented as the coalition candidate and defeated the ruling APC candidate.

Also, a source close to the candidate of the PDP candidate quoted in the report said the candidate is under pressure from his creditors even as he scouts for funds to prosecute the election.

A Psychologist Candidate, a Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate, and a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate must hold the necessary licensing degree and be in the process of completing the required supervision for licensure.

LJP Hajipur candidate Pashupati Paras, Samastipur candidate Ramchandra Paswan and BJP’s former MLA and Vaishali candidate Veena Devi with party Chief during a press conference, in Patna.

If the withdrawal of a candidate leaves only one duly nominated candidate for a particular seat, the remaining candidate will be declared elected with effect from polling day and further proceedings will be called off.

On stage when I arrived was Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, U.S. Senate candidate (and possibly future presidential candidate) Beto O'Rourke, gubernatorial candidate Lupe Valdez, and many other notable Texas politicians.

The Internet Research Agency, LLC seems to have been acting as any other "dark money" interest group which supports a candidate using dirty tricks but without "coordination" with the candidate or the candidate's campaign.

Advocates of Condorcet methods argue that a candidate can claim to have majority support only if they are the "Condorcet winner" that is, the candidate who would beat every other candidate in a series of one-on-one elections.

A voter can approve of more than one candidate and still prefer one approved candidate to another approved candidate.

For redirect amboxcheck collapsible A plurality voting system is a voting system in which each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the candidate who polls more votes ( plurality ) than any other candidate is elected.

In some cases approval voting will elect a candidate that has greater overall utility than a candidate preferred by a mere majority, if the majority also approves a compromise candidate that includes representation of the minority.