"candidate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The ballot measures would also promote majority governance, as they would eliminate spoiler candidates with little or no hope of being elected.
- Many have suggested that Prokhorov, who has close ties to the Kremlin, is little more than a spoiler candidate designed to split the middle-class vote and weaken the protest movement.
- Some considered him a spoiler candidate, and argued that he would take support away from right-leaning candidate Larry Di Ianni (Spectator, 29 October 2003).
- Speculation that James Green was a "spoiler" candidate was inflamed when it became known that Sullivan had helped Green in a dispute about office space.
- But Mr. Westlund withdrew from the race in August because he said he did not want to be a spoiler candidate who would skew the election.
- During most of the election campaign, Morial was viewed by most commentators as a spoiler candidate with little chance of victory.
- But without cross-endorsement, smaller parties can exist only by running "spoiler" candidates like Ralph Nader.
- Nader was criticized for being a spoiler candidate for running or having stolen the election from Al Gore, the Democratic Party nominee.
- Dixon's centrist labourism brought about opposition from the Socialist Party of Canada, which ran a spoiler candidate against him.
- The general election itself was expected to be close with Independent candidate Russ Potts as a possible spoiler candidate.
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