candidate for political office

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• candidate — I noun applicant, aspirant, aspirer, candidates, challenger, competitor, contender, contestant, designee, desirer, entrant, hopeful, job seeker, nominee, office hunter, office seeker, petitioner, political aspirant, political contestant, runner,… …   Law dictionary

• Candidate — For other uses, see candidate (disambiguation). A candidate is the prospective recipient of an award or honor or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position; for example: to be elected to an office in this case a candidate… …   Wikipedia

• Political endorsement — is the action of publicly declaring one s personal or group s support of a candidate for elected office.In the case of a 4 or 5 party system, where one of the parties has a 15 to 20% predicted electoral support, just prior to the election, the… …   Wikipedia

• political convention — or party conference In politics, a meeting of members of a political party at the local, state, or national level to select party leaders and candidates for office and to determine party policy. During presidential election years in the U.S., the …   Universalium

• Political discussion society — The Political Discussion Society was established in 1967 to ensure discussion of issues of national and international importance. The Society is politically oriented without a political agenda and reaches out to all facets of the student body… …   Wikipedia

• political action committee — PAC PAC (p[a^]k), n. [Acronynm from Political Action Committee.] (Politics) A {political action committee}, a committee formed by an organization or special interest group to raise money to support candidates for office or to influence… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK — Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK Leader Roberts Zīle Founded TB: 1 February 1993 …   Wikipedia

• political action committee — n. an organization representing the interests of a corporation, labor union, trade association, etc. that solicits and collects political campaign contributions from individuals and distributes them to particular candidates * * * (abbr PAC) n (in …   Universalium

• POLITICAL LIFE AND PARTIES — Introduction It was largely due to the existence of the pre state political parties, which had conducted intensive political activities for almost half a century within the framework of the yishuv , under the British Mandate for Palestine, that… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Political campaign — A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. In democracies, political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, wherein representatives are chosen or referenda are… …   Wikipedia

• Political scandals of the United States — This article provides a list of major political scandals of the United States.cope and organization of political scandalsCategorizing and listing scandalsDivision of this article s list of American political scandals falls into four categories… …   Wikipedia