Example sentences of "was elected leader " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 , when Mr Kinnock was elected leader , candidates on the left 's slate won 74 per cent of constituency votes . |
| 2 | Nina Andreeva was elected leader of the party and 15 full and four candidate members were elected to its central committee . |
| 3 | In 1981 , Arthur Scargill was elected leader of the NUM . |
| 4 | He was elected leader of the party at the Carlton Club on 21 March 1921 , proposed by Captain Pretyman who coined in his speech the idea that Conservative leaders " emerged " rather than being elected . |
| 5 | Harry West was elected leader of the Unionist party on 22 January , 1974 . |
| 6 | Claes Andersson , a member of parliament who had not held a senior post in any of the old parties , was elected leader of the Alliance . |
| 7 | Heikki Riihijärvi was elected leader of the SMP at its congress on Aug. 8-9 , 1989 . |
| 8 | A staunch opponent of the Accord , Chrétien was elected leader at a party convention on June 23 . |
| 9 | In June Hubert Ingraham , another former minister who had been dismissed in 1984 [ ibid. ] , was elected leader of the opposition Free National Movement ( FNM ) after the death on May 9 , 1990 , of its former leader Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield [ for whom see also p. 35373 ] . |
| 10 | In May 1989 Denzil Douglas , 36 , Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly , was elected leader of the opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party ( SKLP ) after the resignation of Lee Moore , who had again failed to win a seat in the general election held on March 21 . |
| 11 | Jozef Prokes was elected leader of the Slovak National Party at its second congress on March 23 . |
| 12 | Zbigniew Bujak , a former Solidarity activist prominent in ROAD , was elected leader . |
| 13 | Air Chief Marshal ( retd ) Sombun Rahong , governor of the Thai Airport Authority , was elected leader of the Chart Thai party , it was announced on Nov. 12 . |
| 14 | On Dec. 19 Turkes was elected leader of the NLP in an uncontested election at the NLP 's third congress . |
| 15 | On July 18 John Smith , 53 , Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and MP for Monklands East in Scotland , was elected leader of the Labour Party in place of Neil Kinnock , who had led the party since 1983 but had announced his resignation after the party 's general election defeat in April [ see p. 38869 ] . |
| 16 | Mircea Druc , who had stood in the presidential elections as an independent candidate campaigning for the unification of Romania , Bessarabia ( now Moldova and parts of Ukraine ) and Bukovina ( also part of Ukraine ) , was elected leader of the newly formed National Reunification Party on Nov. 4 . |
| 17 | In 1983 , on the retirement of Mr Foot , Mr Kinnock was elected Leader by the electoral college and Mr Hattersley was elected Deputy Leader . |
| 18 | A VETERAN trade union leader , Giorgio Benvenuto , 55 , was elected leader of Italy 's Socialist Party yesterday to replace the disgraced former prime minister Bettino Craxi . |