She contested the seat of Burnley in Lancashire in the 1979 general election and then, against David Owen, the Plymouth Devonport seat in the 1983 general election.

Some independent Social Democrats contested the October 1974 and 1979 General Elections, but none were elected.

For the first-ever election for the European Parliament in 1979, the PFN had become part of an attempt to build a " Euro-Right " alliance of European far-right parties, and was in the end the only one of the two that contested the election.

He contested the Karting World Championship each year from 1978 to 1982, finishing runner-up in 1979 and 1980.

He contested Hexham at the 1979 general election, but was defeated by the Conservative MP and former Cabinet Minister Geoffrey Rippon.

Spring's political life began in 1979 when he successfully contested the local elections in Tralee.

Bellotti first contested the Eastbourne seat at the 1979 general election, subsequently fighting Lewes in the 1983 and 1987 general elections under the Liberal banner.

In Opposition between 1974 and 1979, Howe contested the second ballot of the 1975 Conservative leadership election, in which Margaret Thatcher was elected, and then was appointed by Thatcher as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

He unsuccessfully contested the Suffolk seat in the European Parliament in 1979.

He then contested Telok Blangah at a 1979 by-election and the 1980 election, losing to the PAP's Rohan bin Kamis both times by 38. 8 % to 61. 2 % in 1979, and by 47. 0 % to 53. 0 % in 1980.

He contested Wells Constituency in Somerset in the 1979 General Election.

Heathcoat-Amory contested the London Borough of Brent seat at Brent South at the 1979 general election but was defeated by the sitting Labour MP Laurence Pavitt by 11, 616 votes.

He was not to fight a Parliamentary election again for 24 years, but contested and lost the Cheshire West European seat in 1979.

He previously contested several Parliamentary constituencies: Woking at the 1979 general election, Portsmouth North at the 1983 general election and Erith and Crayford at the 1992 general election.

He contested Manchester Gorton in 1979 and was first elected as an MP for Central Suffolk in 1983.

In 1979 Butterfill contested London South East Inner at the European Parliamentary election but was defeated comfortably by Labour's Richard Balfe.

Naysmith unsuccessfully contested the seat of Bristol at the 1979 European Parliament election.

In 1979, The Greenbrier was the site of the first Ryder Cup contested under the current format of United States against Europe.

She unsuccessfully contested the Darwen constituency at the 1979 general election where she was defeated by the sitting veteran Conservative MP Charles Fletcher-Cooke by 13, 026 votes.

He contested South East Derbyshire in 1979.

He unsuccessfully contested Hastings at both the February and October 1974 general elections and again at the 1979 General Election, and on each occasion was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Kenneth Warren.

He contested the Holborn and St Pancras South seat in 1979.

Lloyd was first elected in a political capacity when he successfully contested the 1979 Trafford Council elections, standing in Clifford ward of Old Trafford.

A significant number of constituencies were contested by nationals of countries outside the UK, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India, as British electoral law allows any member of a Commonwealth country to stand for Parliament.

The oldest full manuscript of the Talmud is from 1342, known as the Munich Talmud and was purchased in a hotly contested auction from New York based Christies by Tyndale House of the UK.

In the 2010 UK General Election, the Wessex Regionalists contested the West Oxfordshire parliamentary seat of Witney.

Nevertheless, Dunglass firmly maintained all his life that the Munich agreement had been vital to the survival of Britain and the defeat of Nazi Germany by giving the UK an extra year to prepare for a war that it could not have contested in 1938.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Argentina contested control of Deception Island with the UK with some removals of the sovereign flag and temporary occupation of the island.

Later that year White and Davis contested a memorable UK Championship final which Davis won 16 – 14.

Maurice Leen contested the seat of Oxford East for the IWCA in the 2005 UK general election, receiving 892 votes ( 2. 1 %).

Most of these realignments occurred within the unionist parties, with several defections between existing parties and two new parties being formed-the United Unionist Coalition ( formed by the three MLAs elected as independent unionists, though one later joined the Democratic Unionist Party ) and the Northern Ireland Unionist Party ( formed by four of the five MLAs elected as the UK Unionist Party, though one later left them, joined the Democratic Unionists for a period but contested the election as an independent unionist ).

The Mirror World Championship is contested biennially by the nations of Ireland, the UK, the Republic of South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, Netherlands and Australia.

Farage had unsuccessfully contested UK parliamentary elections for UKIP five times, both before and after his election as an MEP in 1999.

Stafford ( UK Parliament constituency ) | Stafford, the constituency Cameron contested in 1997

The BM contested the UK general elections in 1970 and in February 1974.

It later contested the 2005 UK general election under its own name and in association with other leftist parties in the Socialist Green Unity Coalition, standing candidates in Yorkshire, London and Brighton.

He contested Swansea West ( UK Parliament constituency ) at the 1983 general election.

A decline in interest within the UK in 1969-1970 led to the establishment of the three national competitions which have been contested to date, namely the National Singles, National Pairs, and the Teams of Four.

At the 1946 election the party had high hopes of emulating the British Labour Party's success in the 1945 UK general election and contested the election on a staunchly socialist manifesto.

The current limit for elections to the UK Parliament in Westminster stands at £ 30, 000 per constituency contested within 365 days of a General Election, up to a maximum of £ 18. 84 million.

The seat was initially won by the Nationalist Party in 1950 and 1951, the closely contested 1951 election seeing a 93. 4 % turnout-a UK record for any election.

The IPW: UK All-England Championship ( formerly the FWA All-England Championship ) was a professional wrestling championship which was originally contested for in Frontier Wrestling Alliance ( FWA ) and subsequently in International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom ( IPW: UK ) after FWA's closure.

In the early years, the Olympic football competition was contested between amateur sides and the UK Olympic Committee agreed to let the amateur England team represent the entire UK ( Thus the team was not really representative of the entire UK, but played under that banner ).

The term has a mixed and contested heritage due to its philanthropic roots in the US, and cooperative roots in the UK, EU and Asia.