unsuccessful party

基本解释

And in nineteen twenty, he was the Democratic Party's unsuccessful candidate for vice president.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the party's thrice-unsuccessful presidential candidate, continues to top the opinion polls for 2002.
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Another unsuccessful contender was the New Wasat or Centre Party.
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His sister, Betsy DeVos, has served as chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and her husband, Dick DeVos, was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor of Michigan in 2006.
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