Both campaigns have seven days after the board certifies a result to file a post-election contest.
The ferocious post-election contest has somewhat reduced the policy ambitions of American politicians.
The governor faces a re-election contest this fall, but is widely expected by pundits to be a contender for president in 2016.
Stevens is the biggest fish to face criminal charges and he does so at a time when he's in a tough re-election contest.
But if his neighbours begin truly to isolate Mr Mugabe, he will find it harder to survive, whatever the result of a one-man election contest.
Mr Habecker refused to stand and recite the pledge, and after being branded unpatriotic, was forced to enter a fresh election contest to remove him from office.
This argument might be enough to carry the day, and it would give the court the hook it needs--if it wants one--to provide order in what some say has been a much too unruly post-election contest in the Sunshine State.
Mr Boies adds that this is the first election-law contest in Florida where ballots have not been considered.
Political pundits argue that Nigeria is already in the early stages of the 2003 presidential election, a contest in which Mr Obasanjo has all but declared himself a contender.
Rudd, who had once been considered a very promising leader, did not even get to contest another election.
And opposition parties have a right not to contest an election, if that is how they want to object.
She stood for the Conservatives in Berwick at the 2010 General Election, and will contest the seat again in 2015.
But underdog Faso may yet be able to turn what pundits regard as a walkaway election into a real contest.
You contest an election and people vote for you or they don't.
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Mr Abbas was helped by the withdrawal of a popular rival, Marwan Barghouti, who chose not to contest the election from his Israeli prison cell.
The Presidential election was a national contest between two candidates.
"My decision to contest the election will not only give courage to women in general and attract attention to their problems, but also helps negate the wrong impression about our society, " Zari said.
Minnesota's canvassing board declared Franken, a Democrat, the winner of its Senate race Monday over Norm Coleman, but Republicans said they plan to contest the election in court and will block Democrats from seating Franken until Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty certifies the results.
As we saw with this election, the College often gives a close contest a definitive end, which enables us to put the election behind us and move onward.
He is the first Mormon from a major party to contest the presidential election.
But they expect him to announce a 2014 Senate election rather than a special contest this year.
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The leading vote-winner from each party for each office then went on to contest the general election.
Across Canada, the election has turned into a contest between fear and anger.
Local party members in Totnes have already drawn up a shortlist of 11 would-be candidates to contest the next election.
On Friday, in the statement on his website, Mr Rudd said his decision to contest the next election as a local MP had not changed.
The decision could give Edwards, a U.S. senator from North Carolina, a boost in the convoluted caucuses, the first major Democratic contest of the election year.
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The father of a Conservative MP has decided he will still contest a council election for the UK Independence Party - an hour after deciding to pull out.
It is generally stipulated among political experts and interested observers of the 2012 election cycle that the presidential contest will be heavily weighted toward the condition of the economy, especially unemployment.
Remember that 1960 election, where there was no contest as to who won the debate?
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Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister has called for a single unionist candidate to contest the by-election.
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