1.   As leader of an independent broad-based movement, Asuncin For All, Filizzola defeated the candidates of both major parties.

2.   Al-Fatah won all nine seats in the chamber, easily defeating Hamas candidates.

3.   Step forward Middlesbrough born and raised Graham Robb radio presenter, public relations wallah and defeated Tory candidate in Hartlepool.

4.   At the party convention he came in a distant second, but in the primary he narrowly defeated the candidate backed by the party leaders.

5.   Bloomberg defeated Democratic candidate Mark Green in an extremely close race.

6.   Bloomberg defeated Democratic candidate Mark Green in an extremely close mayoral race.

7.   Cabot has a vision of voters rising up to defeat some candidate because he or she opposed campaign finance reform.

8.   But, in a late entry into the primary, Williams pulled a major upset by defeating six candidates.

9.   He defeated Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov by a wide margin.

10.   In the state school board primary this month, Kansas voters defeated those candidates who last year supported removing any mention of evolution from the state science curriculum.