Event class: general election, elected, seat, parliament, constituency, mp, member, candidate, stood, labour

Events with high posterior probability

Richard Hazleton	However, at the December 1910 election, he was again returned unopposed in North Galway, but also stood again in North Louth.
Barry Henderson	Henderson contested Edinburgh East at the 1966 general election.
Fiona Mactaggart	Mactaggart was elected as Labour MP for Slough in 1997.
Walter Windsor	Windsor was elected at the 1923 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green North East, an area where his family had lived for six generations.
John Laird, Baron Laird	Whilst Chairman of the Ulster Young Unionist Council in 1970, Laird became the youngest member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, after winning the seat of Belfast Saint Anne's in a by-election caused by the death of his father, Dr Norman Laird OBE.
Sir William Taylor, 1st Baronet	At the 1945 general election he stood unsuccessfully in the Bradford East constituency in West Yorkshire, losing in that year's landslide by a wide margin to the Labour Party candidate Frank McLeavy.
Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold	Although he failed to be elected on that occasion, another general election was called in 1886, and he was elected to the Commons as Accrington's MP.
Ian Gibson (politician)	He unsuccessfully contested Norwich North at the 1992 General Election where he was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Patrick Thompson by just 266 votes.
Dominic Hannigan	As part of an election pact between Labour and Sinn Féin for the 2007 Seanad election, Hannigan was elected on the first count, to the Industrial and Commercial Panel of Seanad Éireann.
Michael Colivet	He was re-elected unopposed at the 1921 elections for the Limerick City -- Limerick East constituency.
Ronald Walker (UK politician)	Walker first stood for Parliament as a Liberal at the 1922 UK general election.
D. D. Sheehan	He was re-elected unopposed as Ireland's first Independent Nationalist Labour MP on 31 December 1906.
Kenneth Dewar	In the 1931 General Election, Dewar stood as a Labour party candidate in Portsmouth North, where he lost against the incumbent by 14,149 votes.
Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet	In 1963, he was selected to fight the constituency of Eton and Slough, then held by Labour's leftwing internationalist Fenner Brockway.
Iain Macleod	He unsuccessfully contested the Western Isles constituency at the 1945 general election (there was no Conservative Party in the seat, so his father appointed himself Association Chairman).
Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon	She was elected for the seat of Basildon at the 1997 general election, replacing the Conservative MP David Amess, who had moved to fight the neighbouring seat of Southend West.
Timothy O'Donovan	After the loss of his Dáil seat in 1944, he was elected at the subsequent Seanad Éireann election to the 5th Seanad, on the Agricultural Panel.
Gerald Kyffin-Taylor	He was elected at a by-election in July 1910 as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Kirkdale.
Rhys Hopkin Morris	In 1922 Hopkin Morris contested the general election as a pro Asquith Liberal in Cardiganshire, narrowly losing to the sitting pro- Lloyd George Liberal MP Ernest Evans.
Alan Clark	He subsequently became MP for Plymouth Sutton at the February 1974 general election with a majority of 8,104.
Mary Hanafin	Hanafin was elected to the Dáil Éireann on her second attempt at the 1997 general election for the Dún Laoghaire constituency.
Michael Cliffe	As Chairman of Shoreditch and Finsbury Constituency Labour Party when the local Member of Parliament Victor Collins took a life peerage in the first appointments in 1958, Cliffe was selected as his successor as Labour candidate for the constituency of Shoreditch and Finsbury.
Greg Hands	His previous seat of Hammersmith and Fulham was abolished for the 2010 General Election, with Hammersmith having its own seat (being fought by Shaun Bailey for the Conservatives), and Fulham joining Chelsea in a new seat.
Samuel Clowes	Clowes stood for parliament unsuccessfully at South Derbyshire in 1857.
Samuel Clowes	At the 1868 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for North Leicestershire.
Keith Joseph	He failed to be elected to the marginal seat of Baron's Court in West London by 125 votes in the 1955 election.
Willie O'Dea	Following the founding of the Progressive Democrats by Desmond O'Malley in 1985, O'Dea became the only Fianna Fáil TD in the five-seat Limerick East constituency.
John Howard (MP for Southampton)	In the 1945 general election, Howard stood as a Liberal in Croydon North, coming third.
Tony Gregory	Colleagues of Tony Gregory supported his election agent, Dublin City Councillor Maureen O'Sullivan at the Dublin Central by-election in June 2009.
Christopher Ward (UK politician)	When Labour MP Francis Noel-Baker resigned from the House of Commons in 1969, Ward was selected as the Conservative candidate in the resulting by-election.
Roberta Blackman-Woods	In 2004 Blackman-Woods was selected as the Labour candidate for the City of Durham constituency through a controversial All-Women Shortlist.
Harry Colley	Colley was first elected to Dáil Éireann on his second attempt at the 1944 general election.
Will Owen	Owen was chosen as Labour and Co-operative Party candidate for Morpeth at a by-election in 1954.
Martin Wingfield	In the 1997 General Election, he stood as the ND candidate for Wolverhampton North East constituency gaining 356 votes (0.
Alan Haselhurst	He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1970 general election for the Lancashire seat of Middleton and Prestwich, defeating the Labour MP Denis Coe by 1,042 votes.
Se?n T. O'Kelly	O'Kelly was elected Sinn Féin Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin College Green in the 1918 general election.
Michael Francis Ward	He was election agent for his college contemporary Frank Hugh O'Donnell when O'Donnell contested the Galway constituency in the 1874 general election and, when O'Donnell was unseated by the courts, Ward successfully contested the ensuing by-election as an agreed Home Rule League candidate, winning with 726 votes to the Liberal candidate's 288.
Claire Curtis-Thomas	She was elected to the House of Commons at her first attempt at the 1997 general election for the parliamentary constituency of Crosby.
Helen Grant (politician)	She was elected at the 2010 general election, replacing the constituency's previous incumbent, Ann Widdecombe, who had decided to step down as an MP.
Bruce Kent	In 1992 Kent was a candidate for the Labour Party in the constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon, where he came third.
James Provan	Having a home in the south of England, Provan was selected as Conservative candidate for South Downs West in the run-up to the 1994 European Parliament election, a much better area for the Conservatives.
Peter Scott	WWT London Wetland Centre He stood as a Conservative candidate unsuccessfully in the 1945 general election in Wembley North.
Domhnall Ua Buachalla	Ua Buachalla was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for Kildare North at the 1918 general election.
Peter Kilfoyle	Kilfoyle became the Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton by winning a by-election in 1991 after the death of the incumbent Eric Heffer.
Michael Ahern (Irish politician)	Michael Ahern's brother Maurice Ahern was a long standing Fianna Fáil member of Cork County Council but lost his seat in the 2009 elections.
William Joseph Corbet	However, at the general election in July 1895, at the age of 70, he fought back and won the Wicklow East seat by the narrow majority of 87 votes over the Unionist, the Anti-Parnellite this time coming third.
Naomi Long	On 6 May 2010, she defeated Peter Robinson, First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, to become Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast East in the House of Commons.
Michael Colvin	His first parliamentary seat was Bristol North West, which he captured from Labour in 1979, when Margaret Thatcher achieved power.
Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester	He died in 2010, shortly after his son, Robin Walker, had been elected the Conservative MP for Worcester.
Henry Kenny	During that time he retained his Dáil seat at every general election, moving to the Mayo West constituency in 1969.
George Alexander Hamilton	Hamilton was seated as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin City on 13 April 1835, after a successful election petition.
Malcolm Rifkind	Rifkind first stood for Parliament, unsuccessfully, in 1970 in the Edinburgh Central constituency.
Alfred Hopkinson	He returned to Parliament in March 1926, when he won a by-election for the Combined English Universities.
Eugene Ramsden, 1st Baron Ramsden	Ramsden stood unsuccessfully for the Spen Valley constituency in West Yorkshire at the 1923 general election, held by the senior Liberal John Simon.
Frank Sherwin	He stood as an independent candidate in the 3-seat Dublin North -- Central constituency at the 1957 general election, gaining 15 % of the first-preference vote.
Robert Noton Barclay	Barclay first stood for Parliament at the 1923 general election.
Patrick Kennedy (Limerick politician)	He did not contest the 1981 general election, but in the subsequent election to the 15th Seanad he won a seat on the Administrative Panel.
Dan Boyle (politician)	At the 2002 general election he was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Cork South -- Central constituency.
Thomas Atholl Robertson	After a period of reflection, Robertson decided to resign as prospective Parliamentary candidate for Finchley and was replaced by Lady Crosfield who had fought Islington North in 1929 and was the wife of Sir Arthur Crosfield the former Liberal MP for Warrington.
George Lee (journalist)	On 6 May 2009, Lee was chosen as the Fine Gael candidate for the by-election.
Theresa Villiers	She stood down after the 2005 general election when she was elected as the Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet.
John Freeman Dunn	Dunn tried once more for Parliament, this time at Chichester in West Sussex at the 1929 general election.
Michael Begley (politician)	He was first elected to Dáil Éireann on his third attempt at the 1969 general election for Kerry South.
David McNarry	McNarry was selected in 2001 to contest the Strangford Westminster seat after the incumbent, John Taylor, announced he would be retiring.
L. du Garde Peach	Peach also entered the world of politics, standing as a candidate for the Liberal Party at the 1929 General Election in the dual member seat of Derby, without success.
John Dillon Nugent	He was defeated at the 1918 general election by Michael Staines of Sinn Féin contesting Dublin St Michan's.
John Diamond, Baron Diamond	He returned to the House of Commons in a 1957 by-election for Gloucester, caused by the death of its Labour MP, Moss Turner-Samuels.
Hugh Pym	In the 2001 General election Pym stood as Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in the North Wiltshire constituency.
George Currie (politician)	At the 1950 general election Currie fought as Conservative candidate for East Flintshire, a safe Labour seat.
William Magennis	Magennis was first elected to Dáil Éireann as an independent Teachta Dála (TD) for the National University of Ireland constituency at the 1922 general election.
James Pattison	When the Carlow -- Kilkenny constituency was split at the 1937 general election, Pattison was re-elected for the new 3-seat Kilkenny constituency.
Paul Clark (politician)	Paul Clark first became MP for Gillingham in the Labour landslide in the 1997 general election where he overturned a conservative majority of 16,638.
John Adam Day	He was again Liberal candidate for the Tavistock Division of Devon at the 1935 General Election, again without success ; He was Treasurer of the Devon & Cornwall Liberal Federation.
William Quirke	At the 1923 general election he was an unsuccessful Sinn Féin candidate in the Tipperary constituency.
Arlene Foster	She was selected as the DUP's candidate for Fermanagh & South Tyrone in the United Kingdom general election, 2005.
Andy McDonald (politician)	Labour shortlisted McDonald as a potential candidate for the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in the 2010 United Kingdom general election.
Joseph King (MP)	At the 1923 General Election he was Labour candidate at York, coming second.
David Thomas (British politician)	In 1946, on the elevation to a peerage of George Hall, Thomas was chosen by the Aberdare Divisional Socialist Party to contest the vacant parliamentary seat.
Vincent White (politician)	He next stood for election at the 1918 general election as a Sinn Féin candidate for the Waterford City constituency but was defeated by William Redmond of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
Mark Pritchard (politician)	In the 2001 General Election Pritchard stood as the Conservative candidate for Warley in the West Midlands where he was defeated by John Spellar, the Labour party candidate.
Robin Hodgson, Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts	But in the 1976 by-election caused by the imprisoned Stonehouse's resignation, Hodgson managed to overturn the large Labour majority to become the Member of Parliament.
Lionel Louis Cohen	At the 1885 general election he was returned to the House of Commons for the Paddington North constituency.
Tom O'Donnell	O'Donnell was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1961 general election as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for Limerick East.
Dan Breen	He returned to Ireland and regained his seat as a member of Fianna Fáil in the Dáil at the 1932 general election.
Jim Higgins (Irish politician)	He was successful at the 1987 general election, winning a seat in the 25th Dáil as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for Mayo East.
Geoffrey de Freitas	In 1964 he was invited to stand for election to represent Kettering, then a safe Labour seat, and returned to England.
Christopher Fraser	He returned to Westminster at the 2005 general election for South West Norfolk following the retirement of the former Secretary of State for Education Gillian Shephard.
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor	He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West in a 1938 by-election.
Barbara Follett (politician)	Follett stood unsuccessfully as Labour candidate for Woking in the 1983 general election.
Hugh Byrne (Fine Gael politician)	When that constituency was abolished for the 1981 general election, he was returned for a new Dublin North -- West constituency.
Eamon Gilmore	He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1989 general election as a member of the Workers' Party for the constituency of Dún Laoghaire, and has been re-elected at every subsequent general election.
Philip James Woods	Standing as the Fighting Colonel he was first elected in a by-election held on 2 May 1923 for Belfast West, following the assassination of William Twaddell, the sitting MP.
Derek Conway	At the 1979 General Election Conway contested the more marginal seat of Newcastle upon Tyne East and was again defeated, this time by Labour's Mike Thomas and by 6,176 votes.
Mark Hoban	He was elected to the House of Commons at the 2001 general election for the Hampshire seat of Fareham following the retirement of the Conservative MP Peter Lloyd.
James Pringle	In 1924, the Nationalists stood aside, and Pringle was elected alongside fellow Ulster Unionist Party member Charles Falls, easily beating two Sinn Féin members.
Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler	This seat was abolished at the February 1974 general election, when Brocklebank-Fowler was elected for the new North West Norfolk seat.
Kathleen Lynn	She unsuccessfully contested the August 1927 by-election for Dublin County.
Angus McDonnell	He returned to the United Kingdom, where he was chosen by the Conservative Party to contest the constituency of Dartford at the 1924 general election.
Richard Anthony (politician)	He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as an Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork Borough constituency at the June 1927 general election.
Mark Seddon	Seddon tried to find a parliamentary seat and stood in the safe Conservative seat of Buckingham in the 2001 General Election against John Bercow.