unsuccessful candidate
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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
He would join GOP attorney Eric Early — an unsuccessful candidate for state attorney general in 2022 and 2018 and for Congress in 2020.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2023
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
In 1861 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States senatorship from New York.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
