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Despite years of scrutiny over its human rights and environmental record, the Saudi bid for the World Cup was unopposed.

Most of Texas’ GOP-controlled districts lean heavily Republican: In last year’s election, 24 of those 25 seats were carried by a Republican victor who received at least 60% of the vote or ran unopposed.

A separate bill creating a right to palliative care went through unopposed.

Swinney was elected party leader unopposed in May last year and moved quickly to patch up some of the divisions within the SNP by appointing Kate Forbes to his cabinet as deputy first minister.

So far, he is unopposed but there is said to be at least one potential opponent readying a campaign.