Nevertheless, later in the year he was returned instead as the government candidate at Winchelsea.

If he did run and decided not to participate in the campaign financing program, that could tarnish his hoped-for image as "the good government candidate."

They first stood local government candidates in 1999 with two candidates elected.

Lang and Wilson defended their seats against two government candidates, but were heavily defeated.

Congressional elections were blatantly manipulated to insure the election of government candidates.

Tsvetanov was announced as government candidate for the 2011 Bulgarian presidential election.

It was generally taken for granted that the government candidates would normally be elected.

Some groups dependent on government assistance, such as students, hospital patients and prisoners, were told to vote for the government candidate.

The "ballot boxes had been stuffed with votes for the government candidates even before the voting took place".

With polls indicating that government candidates would crush them in the election, opposition leaders had for weeks threatened to pull out.