He then won a big victory in the general election over the candidate of the Whig Party, General Winfield Scott.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

And he had been the candidate of a minor party in the presidential election of eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

They tried to sell the idea that the old general was the only man who could defeat the candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

And Tyler - a Whig - hoped that Calhoun might be able to get him nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

He defeated John Fremont,the candidate of the newly created Republican Party, which opposed slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

He said: "A man who has once been the candidate of his party -- and defeated -- owes it to his party not to be a candidate again."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Abraham Lincoln was the first presidential candidate of the modern Republican Party.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

She was the first female vice presidential candidate of the Republic Party.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

The candidate of the Democratic Party was Stephen Douglas.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Pierce was the compromise candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

He was the candidate of the small "People's Party."

VOA: special.2009.03.15

He was a compromise candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The candidate of the opposition was Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

It is a big win for Aziz as Boulkheir and Daddah both had publicly pledged to support the other in a potential run-off against him, if no candidate won more than Aziz ran a populist campaign, calling himself the "Candidate of the Poor,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

For two days, the delegates debated the slavery issue and discussed their choice of a candidate for president.

VOA: special.2009.03.12