three-way race

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race
noun
uk
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/reɪs/
a competition in which all the competitors try to be the fastest and to ...
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She finished second in athree-wayrace.
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The 1977 election was athree-wayrace.
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Without any campaigning, he was running at 22% nationally in athree-wayrace.
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She was re-elected in 2010 with 52% of the vote in athree-wayrace.
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He lost with 24% of the vote, running second in athree-wayrace.
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He won thethree-wayracewith a large majority to return to office.
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The general election of 1986 saw athree-wayracefor governor.
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In 1970, he won the presidency in a closethree-wayrace.
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Bergeson was reelected in 1988 with 71% of the vote in athree-wayrace.
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She was re-elected in 2010, winning 53% in athree-wayrace.
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In this race he actually got 46% of the vote, but without athree-wayracehe lost.
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Chafee was elected with 36.1% in a competitivethree-wayracein 2010 in which he ran as an independent.
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He was able to win thethree-wayracewith more than forty-nine percent of the vote.
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In 1980, she won 74% of the vote in athree-wayraceto be re-elected to her seat.
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He faced athree-wayraceand won easily despite his popular vote dropping slightly from the previous election.
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Alduy was re-elected to the municipality in a four-way race in 1993 and subsequently athree-wayracein 1995 and 2001.
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He was re-elected in 1998 with 72% of the vote and in 2000 with 58% of the vote in athree-wayrace.
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He finished first in athree-wayracein the primary, garnering 37 percent of the vote after endorsements by most of the area's newspapers and chambers of commerce.
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