Contested Election
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
This phrase has no technical or legally defined meaning, An election may be said to be contested whenever an objection is formally urged against it which, if found to be true in fact, would invalidate it. This is true both as to objections founded upon some constitutional provision and to sucha are based on statutes.
109 Ind. 116, 10 I. Rep. 600.