Examples of 'returned unopposed' in a sentence

Meaning of "returned unopposed"

returned unopposed: won a competition or election without facing any challengers

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All were returned unopposed a week later.
Carew was selected and returned unopposed.
He was returned unopposed at the by-election.
A large number of members were again returned unopposed.
He was returned unopposed.
They declined and he was returned unopposed.
The same year he was returned unopposed at a by-election as Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire.
Elections were only held in three constituencies as all other members were returned unopposed.
Randall was returned unopposed.
A number of retiring Labour councillors stood down to allow retiring aldermen to be returned unopposed.
Instead he was returned unopposed again for Dover.
At the October general election he was returned unopposed.
At the election, he had been returned unopposed to his seat for a third consecutive time.
Three Alliance candidates were returned unopposed.
Candidates were returned unopposed in 19 constituencies.

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Two Alliance candidates were returned unopposed.
Has been returned unopposed for a second and final term of two years pag.3.
Navnit Dholakia was returned unopposed.
He was returned unopposed again at the 1681 English general election but was again inactive.
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was the only candidate and was returned unopposed.
He was returned unopposed at the 1734 British general election and went into opposition against Walpole.
Four Conservative Party candidates were returned unopposed.
He was returned unopposed as a Tory as Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in the 1722 election.
As no other candidate came forward, he was again returned unopposed.
Hampden was returned unopposed as MP for Buckinghamshire again at the 1715 general election.
He faced no opponent, so was returned unopposed.
He was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Berwick at the 1761 general election.
He represented the county for the remainder of his life, always being returned unopposed.
Egerton was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Cheshire at the 1754 general election.
There being no other nominations, Chamberlain was returned unopposed.
He was returned unopposed to the Treasury Select Committee chairmanship after the 2015 general election.
As the only candidate, Grimston was returned unopposed.
At the 1713 general election he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Caernarvon Boroughs.
There being no other nominations therefore, Rothschild was returned unopposed.
At the 1768 general election Lamb was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Ludgershall.
There being no other candidates, Edwards was returned unopposed.
Scudamore was returned unopposed as Tory Member of Parliament for Herefordshire at the 1705 general election.
There being no other nominations therefore, Finlay was returned unopposed.
Campbell was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Ayrshire at the 1727 British general election.
There being no other candidates putting themselves forward therefore, Isaacs was returned unopposed.
Dashwood was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Winchelsea at the 1708 British general election.
It was won by the Liberal candidate Arthur Cowell-Stepney, who was returned unopposed.
Duff was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Banffshire at the 1727 British general election.
Cavendish withdrew a week before the election was due, leaving Warren to be returned unopposed.
He was returned unopposed at the first general election of 1701.
John then nominated his younger brother Thomas, an army officer, who was returned unopposed.
Wolff was then returned unopposed until his retirement from parliament in 1910.
No other candidate came forward to contest the by-election and Barrie was therefore returned unopposed.
He was returned unopposed again in 1710 when he was classed as a Whig.
In the by-election for his seat the Labour candidate William Jowitt was returned unopposed.

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