"seat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Long a Labor stronghold, the district has more recently become a very competitive seat between the two conservative parties.
- In the House races, the list of the three dozen most competitive seats dwindled as voters began making up their minds in the final days.
- To gain the majority, Democrats needed to win roughly three-quarters of the competitive seats, and they were winning fewer than half early today.
- "It's a competitive open seat with a suburban electorate that has been trending Democratic."
- Given the rigged game of Congressional gerrymandering, having three of a state's five seats so competitive is almost like politics in a different country.
- That is a difficult feat if - as some predict - the number of competitive seats is fewer than three dozen, thanks largely to redistrictings.
- There's no way he'd ever win any remotely competitive seat.
- Stupak's retirement made the formerly safe Democratic seat more competitive.
- Can a body with so little turnover and so few competitive seats be called truly democratic?
- But this time around fewer incumbents are retiring, and gerrymandering has sharply reduced the supply of competitive seats.
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