Example sentences of "election [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the general election called for July is cancelled . |
| 2 | In the same ballot , voters were given the unprecedented opportunity to choose the PL candidate for the presidential election scheduled for May 27 , 1990 . |
| 3 | The Provisional Electoral Council ( CEP ) on Sept. 1 postponed to an unspecified date the general election scheduled for Nov. 4. 1990 . |
| 4 | It was felt that his return would bolster the prospects of an alliance of secular opposition parties led by Ben Bella 's Movement for Democracy in Algeria ( MDA ) in the general election scheduled for March 1991 . |
| 5 | Wofford immediately announced that he would also contest the special election scheduled for November 1991 to determine who would serve the remainder of Heinz 's unexpired term . |
| 6 | The FIS was also demanding that presidential elections be held simultaneously with or follow shortly after the general election scheduled for June 27 . |
| 7 | Next general election due 1995 ; next presidential election scheduled for early 1994 . |
| 8 | The central committee of Likud , the main party of the right-wing ruling coalition , convened on March 1-2 to elect a ranked list of 50 candidates for the general election scheduled for June 23 . |
| 9 | Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , President since 1980 , was returned to office unopposed when no other nominations were received for the presidential election scheduled for June 26 ; she was to begin her fourth four-year term on Aug. 1 , 1992 . |
| 10 | The government described the timing of his planned visit as " inopportune " in the run-up to the general election scheduled for Sept. 27 . |
| 11 | The multiparty general election scheduled for Nov. 20 was postponed until Dec. 18 by a presidential decree of Oct. 17 . |
| 12 | The resolution also threatened to exclude the Khmers Rouges from the general election scheduled for May 1993 , if voter registration had not been allowed to go ahead in Khmer Rouge areas by Jan. 31 , 1993 . |
| 13 | In February 1991 the Bundestag agreed to grant modified " group status " to the PDS and the Alliance " 90/Greens ( elected in eastern German Länder ) , even though these parties had not won sufficient seats in the December election to qualify for status as a " parliamentary group " . |
| 14 | Parliament was dissolved on 13 November , and the election announced for 6 December . |
| 15 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 16 | The Former West German Chancellor , Mr Willy Brandt , has said that any party in East Germany that decides to run on a reunification plank is virtually assured of a runaway victory at the general elections set for next May . |
| 17 | Myanma 's ( formerly Burma ) military rulers yesterday barred one of the country 's main dissident groups headed by a former prime minister , U Nu , from contesting elections set for next May . |
| 18 | Local and general elections set for Sept. 29 [ see p. 38350 ] were put back to mid-October following heated parliamentary debate during August on an elections bill . |
| 19 | Local government officials on June 23 condemned as " unconstitutional " a decision by Fujimori on June 14 to postpone municipal elections set for Nov. 8 until , possibly , March 1993 . |
| 20 | The four opposition parties announced on Nov. 13 that they were withdrawing from the parliamentary elections set for Dec. 8 in protest at the failure of their demand for a new voters ' register . |
| 21 | Mr Pozsgay will have his chance of greater glory in the presidential elections scheduled for next month , but his ambitious young colleague , Mr Nemeth , will have no such consolation . |
| 22 | Three main opposition groups in Yugoslavia united yesterday to contest Slovenia 's first free elections scheduled for next March , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 23 | Three main opposition groups in Yugoslavia 's united yesterday to contest Slovenia 's first free elections scheduled for next March , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 24 | Parliament yesterday confounded widespread predictions that it would wind itself up ahead of the Warsaw Pact 's first free elections scheduled for the spring . |
| 25 | But he must worry that if his wife does not succeed in the party elections scheduled for March , then his own authority will be badly diminished . |
| 26 | The growth of criticism of Rhee led to speculation that he might seek to postpone the elections scheduled for May 1950 . |
| 27 | Aung San Suu Kyi , the most prominent opposition figure in Myanma , was on Jan. 16 banned from taking part in general elections scheduled for May 1990. ln late December 1989 U Nu , a former Prime Minister , had also been banned from standing in the elections [ see p. 37123 ] . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the announcement that the NSF would contest the free elections scheduled for April was greeted with consternation in many quarters , opponents depicting it as a ploy by communists to retain control of the country . |
| 29 | Carlos Pizarro León-Gómez , 39 , the leader of the guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) and its presidential candidate in the elections scheduled for May 27 , was shot dead by a contract killer on April 26 while on board a commercial flight from the capital Bogotá to the northern Caribbean port of Barranquilla where he was to address an election rally . |
| 30 | SPD officials subsequently confirmed that he intended to remain the party 's candidate for chancellor in the federal elections scheduled for Dec. 2 . |