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contested and unsuccessfully
He unsuccessfully contested the marginal seat of Aberdeen South in the 1964 general election, and won it in the landslide Labour victory at the 1966 general election at the age of 28, defeating Priscilla Tweedsmuir by 1, 799 votes.
At the 1934 federal election Holt unsuccessfully contested the safe Labor seat of Yarra for the UAP, running against former Prime Minister James Scullin.
In March 1935, he unsuccessfully contested the safe Victorian state Labor seat of Clifton Hill.
In 1968 he unsuccessfully contested the Sheffield Brightside parliamentary constituency on behalf of the Conservative Party.
In the 2012 Queensland state election the party unsuccessfully contested 6 seats.
In 1990 Atkins unsuccessfully contested the Eastbourne by-election caused by the assassination of the Conservative MP Ian Gow by the Provisional IRA.
He unsuccessfully contested York in 1859, but was elected for Southwark in 1860, and from 1861 to 1866 was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the successive administrations of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell.
Haughey's first attempt at election to the Dáil came in June 1951, when he unsuccessfully contested the general election.
At the 1966 general election and 1970 general election, Howard unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour parliamentary constituency of Liverpool Edge Hill.
In the 1955 general election Kaufman had unsuccessfully contested the safe Conservative seat of Bromley, and in the 1959 general election, Gillingham.
Her lawyers contested the validity of the changes and unsuccessfully fought for her stated desire to be President of the Foundation as of January 2006, when she turned 21.
Gair unsuccessfully contested the Senate election of 1961 for the DLP.
In 1907 Sinn Féin unsuccessfully contested a by-election in North Leitrim, where the sitting MP, one Charles Dolan of Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, had defected to Sinn Féin.
To enter Parliament was one of his ambitions, and in 1868 he unsuccessfully contested Mid-Somerset.
He unsuccessfully contested the Western Isles constituency at the 1945 general election ( there was no Conservative Party in the seat, so his father appointed himself Association Chairman ).
At the 1955 general election, Ridley unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour seat of Blyth.
He unsuccessfully contested Bristol East at the 1987 general election where he finished in third place, some 11, 659 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Jonathan Sayeed.
He subsequently unsuccessfully contested the East Sussex and Kent South ( European Parliament constituency ) in the 1994 elections to the European Parliament.
In 1996 he unsuccessfully contested Chiluba for the presidency of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy.
In March 1848 he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Lancaster, and then made a long tour in the West Indies, Canada and the United States.
Instead he unsuccessfully contested Blackburn in the January election and Wisbech in the December election.
She unsuccessfully contested the Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency at the 1983 Election.
He unsuccessfully contested the Suffolk seat in the European Parliament in 1979.
The party unsuccessfully contested the 2011 election, gaining just 1, 069 votes-the lowest of any registered party.
In the 1992 general election May stood ( and lost ) in the safe Labour seat of North West Durham and then unsuccessfully contested the 1994 Barking by-election.

contested and 1863
* Harvard-Yale Regatta – not contested 1861 to 1863
At Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, he led his men in a successful withdrawal through the hotly contested streets to Cemetery Hill, where they entrenched on the northeastern slope.
He contested Union control over Arkansas in the summer of 1863, and while he won some of his engagements, he was not able to dislodge Northern forces from the state.
The most bitterly contested claim is that of Bahá ' u ' lláh's in 1863.

contested and against
She contested the seat of Burnley in Lancashire in the 1979 general election and then, against David Owen, the Plymouth Devonport seat in the 1983 general election.
At 72 years of age, Attlee contested the 1955 general election against Anthony Eden, which saw the Conservative majority increase.
The most prized and contested rights that attached to benefices were inheritance and security against confiscation.
In the following years, Rome's appeals to the East were based on the unique authority of the Apostolic See and the primacy of Peter, over against the powers of councils as defended by the East ( councils, for example, had endorsed that lofty title which Rome contested ).
The etymology of the name is contested, according to one view, the name Odysseus derives from the verb (), meaning " to be wroth against ', ' hate ", suggesting that the name could be rendered as " the one who is wrathful / hated ".
Ali's rule over the early Muslim community was often contested, and wars were waged against him.
The Polish ruler was able to keep the contested marches of Lusatia and Sorbian Meissen not as fiefs, but as part of Polish territory, and also received military aid in his expedition against Kievan Rus.
In 1185 Peter and Asen, leading nobles of supposed and contested Bulgarian, Cuman, Vlach or mixed origin, led a revolt against Byzantine rule and Peter declared himself Tsar Peter II.
The numbers produced by the Grupo Gay da Bahia ( GGB ) have occasionally been contested on the grounds that they include all murders of LGBT people reported in the media — that is, not only those motivated by bias against homosexuals.
In 1940 when Archie Cameron resigned as Country Party leader he contested the leadership ballot against Sir Earle Page: the ballot was tied and Arthur Fadden was chosen as a compromise.
Competing against Bruno Brodd of the Irish American Athletic Club and J. Bredemus of Princeton University, he won seven of the ten events contested and came in second in the remaining three.
Bevan contested the leadership against both Morrison and Labour right-winger Hugh Gaitskell, but it was Gaitskell who emerged victorious.
In 1961 Rangers became the first British team to reach a European final when they contested the Cup Winners ' Cup final against Italian side Fiorentina, only to lose 4 – 1 on aggregate.
The first of these, the 1969 Anglo-Italian League Cup, was contested over two legs against Coppa Italia winners A. S. Roma.
Beginning with his opposition to action in Borneo in 1965, he has contested almost every British action-arguing against action in Aden, the depopulation of Diego Garcia, the Falklands War ( especially the sinking of the General Belgrano ), the Gulf War, and action in Kosovo and Iraq, saying, " I will resist a war with every sinew in my body ".
Ultimately the inaugural CWC was contested by just 10 clubs ( with Fiorentina of Italy winning the two-legged final against the Scottish team Rangers F. C.
Carlton contested two more Grand Finals in the 1940s, both against, winning the 1947 Grand Final by a single point, and being comfortably beaten in 1949.
The question of division was hotly contested, resulting in 109 votes for to 91 against the proposition.
The council also may have banned the use of crossbows against Christians, although the authenticity, interpretation and translation of this source is contested.
In 1974, Brown ran in a highly contested Democratic primary for Governor of California against Speaker of the California Assembly Bob Moretti, San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto, Representative Jerome R. Waldie, and others.
The contested succession pitted what were known as the Northern and Southern Courts against each other.
After the Shinseito merged into the Shinshinto in 1996, Hata contested the leadership against Ichiro Ozawa.
Strongly tied to the anti-Hashemite party, and attacked by supporters of Abdullah in Transjordan for misusing funds marked out for campaigning against France, al-Husseini asked for a visa for himself and Awni Abd al-Hadi to travel to Syria, where the leadership of the Syrian anti-French cause was being contested.
In 1964, he contested the Torrington seat as the Labour candidate against the Conservative Party incumbent, losing in what was a traditional Conservative-Liberal marginal.

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