Example sentences of "was elected mayor " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such , a former Wall Street broker named Bret Schundler , was elected mayor of Jersey City last week , joining the bipartisan likes of William Weld , the governor of Massachusetts , Richard Daley , mayor of Chicago , and Stephen Goldsmith , the mayor of Indianapolis . |
| 2 | In 1890 he was elected mayor of Derby and in 1891 became JP for the county . |
| 3 | Mr Hay was elected Mayor last year with full SDLP support . |
| 4 | Tizard , a former university lecturer who was elected mayor in 1983 , was the former wife of senior Labour Party politician and ( until January 1990 ) Defence Minister Bob Tizard . |
| 5 | A candidate of the environmentalist Green Party , Jerzy Rosciszewski , was elected mayor of Krakow on Feb. 9 by the city council , heavily defeating the Solidarity candidate . |
| 6 | In Athens ( hitherto held by the ND ) the pro-ND independent , former Pasok Cabinet minister Antonis Tritsis [ see p. 36042 ] , was elected mayor with 50.2 per cent of the vote , defeating the Pasok-Left Coalition candidate , and former Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri , who polled 46 per cent . |
| 7 | As expected , the Democrat candidate , Sharon Pratt Dixon , was elected mayor of Washington DC , thereby making the federal capital the largest US city to elect a female mayor . |
| 8 | On Jan. 24 Eberhard Diepgen , 49 , was elected mayor of Berlin at the head of a Senate ( cabinet ) comprising eight CDU and seven SPD members , of whom three came from East Berlin . |
| 9 | Harue Kitamura was elected mayor of Ashiya , in the southern prefecture of Hyogo , thereby becoming the first Japanese woman to hold such a post . |
| 10 | Julio Mantilla Cuéllar of the populist Conscience of the Fatherland ( CONDEPA ) was elected mayor of the ( administrative ) capital , La Paz , winning 26.35 per cent of the vote to the AP candidate 's 21.4 per cent . |
| 11 | Nebot received the support of the right-wing ( PSC ) former President León Febres Cordero Rivadeneira , arrested in January 1990 on corruption charges [ see p. 37482 ] , who on May 17 was elected mayor of Guayaquil with 70 per cent of the vote . |