unsuccessful candidate
Example Sentences
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He is a past unsuccessful candidate for the school board, city controller and the state Assembly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Mr Magee was an unsuccessful candidate for the party in the Ballyclare area during local government elections in 2023.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2025
In 1986, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the state gubernatorial primary when he lost to the hugely popular Baltimore mayor, William Donald Schaefer.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
Lamm also was an unsuccessful candidate for a 1992 Democratic U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
He was in 1810 an unsuccessful candidate for the chair of law at Paris, and in 1811 he also failed to obtain the office of advocate-general at the court of cassation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
