The lessons learned from those past electoral contests were not applicable to this one.

The title Getting Serious gave it, for this recipient at least, an application to forthcoming electoral contests.

Here's our political editor The UK Independence Party are pledging to field candidates in all next year's electoral contests in Gloucestershire.

Perhaps we have been spoiled by a sequence of exciting electoral contests throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

The subtext was that they will not have to pay anything extra until all of the electoral contests are out of the way.

A new effort is under way in Egypt to engage more women in political life, to try to prepare them for future electoral contests.

The party experience quickly reduces itself to electoral contests, while the drama society is occupied with the nuts and bolts of the next production.