[f. CANDIDATE: see -ACY 3; cf. magistracy.] The position or status of a candidate; CANDIDATESHIP, CANDIDATURE.
[1849. D. G. Mitchell, Battle Summer (1852), 129. He … avows his own candidatecy.]
1864. Fremont, in Daily Tel., 21 June, 5/6. In accepting the candidacy you propose to me, I am exposed to the reproach of creating a schism in the party with which I have been identified.
1870. Daily News 22 Oct., 3/2. The candidacy of the Duke d’Aosta for the throne of Spain has been definitively decided upon.
