In such a close-run race as this election, the campaign becomes all important.

在这场难分伯仲的竞选中，参选活动就愈发关键。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The election was a close-run thing.

这次选举是一次险胜。

《牛津词典》

He has already stated his intention to run for election.

他已声明打算参加竞选。

《牛津词典》

There is standing tension between the Afghan-run Election Commission, which counted the ballots, and the U.N.-backed Complaints Commission, which invalidated the fraudulent ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

In the first round, more than a million ballots, most of them for Mr.Karzai, were declared fraudulent by the U.N.-run Election Complaints Commission, depriving Mr.Karzai of what he claimed was an outright electoral victory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Pierce wanted to run for re-election. Many northern Democrats,however, objected to his support of the pro-slavery legislature in Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

In the first term, the focus was on headline-hogging conflicts in Ivory Coast, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan and even a close-run election in Zambia.

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I'm just wondering whether Peter Mandelson or Harriet Harman's going to run your election campaign.

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They also run an election, though the victor is chosen by popular vote only.

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