* when in an election contested by more than two parties only two parties are elected to Parliament and the relative Parliamentary strength is not proportionate to the first preference votes obtained, additional seats are allocated to establish proportionality

Parliamentary business, in the form of the hotly contested Reform Bill campaign, delayed his taking command until May.

He contested his first Parliamentary seat at the 1992 general election, as the Conservative Party candidate in West Bromwich East.

One aspect of its leftist policies in this period was that it opposed the war-time truce between the major parties and actively contested Parliamentary elections.

The Socialist Labour Party contested both the Scottish Parliamentary and Welsh Assembly Elections in 2011.

Pollitt contested the Parliamentary seat of Rhondda East several times ; in 1945 he was less than a thousand votes from winning the seat from the Labour candidate.

Although the PAP contested nine Parliamentary seats and attracted large crowds at its rallies, it won only one seat.

She contested her first Parliamentary elections in 1984, but lost.

He unsuccessfully contested the Parliamentary constituency of Andover in 1868.

Parliamentary elections were held in June 2001, and more than 50 % of contested seats were won by newcomers.

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

He is unusual in that he has contested two Parliamentary by-elections caused by the resignation of two different Speakers of the House of Commons.

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.

Burstow first contested the Sutton and Cheam Parliamentary seat for the Liberal Democrats at the 1992 General Election.

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

The Court gave the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina a three-month period from the date of publication of its decision on this matter in the " Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina " to bring the contested provisions of the Law in conformity with the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He contested his first Lok Sabha election from Katihar Parliamentary constituency on a Congress ticket in 1977 which he lost.

Ershad contested the Bangladesh Parliamentary Election 2008 from three constituencies.

It contested the 1999 European Parliamentary elections in alliance with the Rassemblement pour la France ( RPF ) of Charles Pasqua, the combination winning 13 seats, surpassing Nicolas Sarkozy's Rassemblement pour la République ( RPR ) list.

In the November 1989 election, Bakoyannis successfully contested her late husband's seat in the Evrytania constituency and was re-elected a member of the Hellenic Parliament in the 1990 election and served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, following the election of her father as Prime Minister of Greece.

He contested the Parliamentary seat of Tiverton in 1950, 1951 and 1955 before moving to the more promising seat of Colne Valley.

The Irish Parliamentary Party never contested the seat.

In all he contested eighteen Parliamentary elections.

Lowell again contested the European Parliamentary elections in Malta on June 6, 2009.

Approval voting ballots show, for each office being contested, a list of the candidates running for that seat.

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.

He unsuccessfully contested the marginal seat of Aberdeen South in the 1964 general election, and won it in the landslide Labour victory at the 1966 general election at the age of 28, defeating Priscilla Tweedsmuir by 1, 799 votes.

However, since there was no effective opposition party, these issues were contested mainly within the coalition government, which won all but one seat in the first post-independence Malayan Parliament.

At the 1934 federal election Holt unsuccessfully contested the safe Labor seat of Yarra for the UAP, running against former Prime Minister James Scullin.

In March 1935, he unsuccessfully contested the safe Victorian state Labor seat of Clifton Hill.

Fraser contested the seat of Wannon, in Victoria's Western District, in 1954 for the Liberal Party, losing to Labor incumbent Donald McLeod by 17 votes.

In the early days of political representation, the majority did not necessarily carry the day and there was very little need for contested elections but by the beginning of the 15th century, a seat in Parliament was something to be cherished.

Askin contested the election in his new seat of Pittwater, replacing his former seat of Collaroy.

While in these positions he twice ( 1985 and 1988 ) contested the seat of Ballarat North in the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Australian Labor Party.

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

However, after a sensational uncovering of massive bribes scandals in the early 1990s, the city had become a stronghold of the conservative coalition led by Milanese media-magnate Silvio Berlusconi combined with the secessionist far-right movement Northern League, a trend that seems to have been reversed only by the 2011 municipal elections, in which a progressive candidate successfully contested the mayoral seat, thus ending almost 20 years of conservative administrations.

In 1943 Lewis contested the University of Wales parliamentary seat at a by-election, his opponent was former Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru deputy vice-president Dr. William John Gruffydd.

Under proportional representation, Labor could win three of the five New South Wales seats, but if Murphy's seat was also contested, it was most unlikely to win four out of six.

In the general election of 1929 the party contested its first parliamentary constituency, Caernarvonshire, polling 609 votes, or 1. 6 % of the vote for that seat.

In 1943 Saunders Lewis contested the University of Wales parliamentary seat at a by-election, gaining 1, 330 votes, or 22 %.

In the 1970 general election Plaid Cymru contested every seat in Wales for the first time and its vote share surged from 4. 5 % in 1966 to 11. 5 %.

He contested the seat of Oswestry in 1970.

During the general elections of September 1780, Pitt contested the University of Cambridge seat, but lost.

At the 1998 federal election, Hanson contested the new seat of Blair after a redistribution effectively split Oxley in half.

On May 10, 1938, Monahans won a contested election to move the county seat from Barstow to Monahans.

The town of Wasco was designated the county seat by the Legislative Assembly although this designation was contested between Wasco and Moro.

In a contested election in 1867, residents voted to move the county seat to Charlevoix, which was upheld by a Circuit Court decision in 1868.