Though he initially stood for election, unsuccessfully, as a Radical, Disraeli was a Tory by the time he won a seat in the House of Commons in 1837 representing the constituency of Maidstone.

In 1996 he stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate.

In Oxford, he stood unsuccessfully as an independent for Parliament.

He denounced the dismissal of the Whitlam government by Sir John Kerr, and unsuccessfully stood for an Australian Capital Territory Senate seat at the 1975 election as an independent.

The writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Unionist parliamentary candidate in 1900 and 1906, in the Scottish seats of Edinburgh Central and Hawick Boroughs respectively.

She stood, unsuccessfully, as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the Dublin South – East constituency at the 1987 general election, receiving 2, 243 votes ( 5. 9 %).

It was originally founded as a moderate Protestant Nationalist newspaper, reflecting the politics of Knox, who stood unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate for Isaac Butt's Home Rule League.

Dunglass's father stood, reluctantly and unsuccessfully, for Parliament before succeeding to the earldom.

In the 1911 general election Savage unsuccessfully stood as the Socialist candidate for Auckland Central, coming second and beaten by Albert Glover of the Liberal Party.

She stood unsuccessfully against James Chichester-Clark in the Northern Ireland general election of 1969.

An advanced and vehement Radical in politics and Progressive in municipal affairs, Harrison in 1886 stood unsuccessfully for Parliament against Sir John Lubbock for the University of London.

In 1853 he stood unsuccessfully against William Gladstone in the election for an MP to represent Oxford University.

He stood as Conservative parliamentary candidate twice unsuccessfully, in the 1918 General Election for North East Derbyshire and in 1922 for West Derbyshire, before gaining the latter seat in 1923, holding it until succeeding to his father's peerage and entering the House of Lords in 1938.

The following year he stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the SNP against John Swinney in a hard fought contest.

In the general election of 1922 he stood unsuccessfully ( coming second ) as an Independent Liberal candidate for Cardiff South.

He stood for parliament at Inverness unsuccessfully on three occasions, in 1931 as a candidate for the National Party of Scotland, in 1935 as a candidate for the Scottish National Party and in 1945 as a candidate for the Liberal Party.

Harney came to the attention of Fianna Fáil leader Jack Lynch and stood unsuccessfully as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the 1977 general election.

He served numerous terms as a government minister, was appointed Tánaiste in 1987, and stood unsuccessfully for the Irish presidency in 1990.

He unsuccessfully stood twice as candidate for the office of President of Ireland, against Seán T. O ' Kelly in 1945, and Éamon de Valera in 1959.

He stood unsuccessfully in a 1750 by-election in Launceston.

She stood unsuccessfully for the Dáil at the February 1982 general election but was subsequently re-elected to the Seanad.

He stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party leadership in 1990, but retired from frontline politics during a Cabinet reshuffle in 1995.

* Tom Northcott, a prominent singer, stood unsuccessfully for the provincial legislature.

In the 1935 General Election he stood unsuccessfully as Labour candidate for Great Yarmouth.

His political career with the Labour Party began in 1924 when he stood, unsuccessfully, for Parliament in the Conservative safe seat of Birmingham Handsworth.

Holt stood again for the federal House of Representatives on 17 August 1935, at a by-election for the marginally conservative seat of Fawkner, this time successfully.

In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ' Independent Progressive ' candidate against the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg, in the Oxford by-election, 1938.

Two months later, Mulroney entered Parliament as the MP for Central Nova in Nova Scotia, winning a by-election in what was then considered a safe Tory seat after Elmer MacKay stood down in his favour.

He was elected in the 1999 by-election and stood down at the 2010 general election.

Radio station owner Avtar Lit stood as a parliamentary candidate ; his son Tony Lit followed in his footsteps, standing in the 2007 by-election.

The Chartists also stood on forty occasions in general elections, starting with a by-election in Ayrshire in 1838.

Smith first stood as a Labour parliamentary candidate at a by-election in 1961 in the East Fife constituency, and contested that seat again in the 1964 general election.

Rātana candidates stood in the 1928 and 1931 General Election and in the 1930 by-election in Western Maori following the death of Maui Pomare, but they did not succeed.

Unlike neighbouring areas in Elmbridge, Residents and amenity groups do not contest local elections in Cobham, although occasionally independents have stood without success, most recently in a 2007 by-election.

He stood in an 1873 by-election as a Liberal for Dundee, coming in last place.

In April 1868, at the age of thirty-one, Campbell-Bannerman stood as a Liberal candidate in a by-election for the Stirling Burghs constituency, narrowly losing to fellow Liberal John Ramsay.

Portillo returned to advisory work for the government and in December 1984 he stood for and won the Enfield Southgate by-election following the murder of the incumbent, Sir Anthony Berry, in the bombing by the IRA of the Grand Hotel in Brighton.

Militant stood Lesley Mahmood as a " Real Labour " candidate in the Liverpool Walton by-election, 1991, its first steps outside the Labour Party electorally, giving the Labour Party further grounds to continue with its expulsions.

Eric Linklater stood as an NPS candidate in the 1933 East Fife by-election, and Neil Gunn played a role in aiding the NPS amalgamation with the Scottish Party.

Because of this, she stood as a candidate in the Strathkelvin and Bearsden Holyrood by-election of 2001.

Living in the nationalist Beechmount neighbourhood of the Falls, he stood for the Falls as a candidate for the Dock Labour Party in a city council by-election in 1956, but lost to Paddy Devlin of the Irish Labour Party, who would later be his close ally.

When De Brauw died the next year, Kuyper stood again in the by-election for the same district.

Noel-Baker stood for Parliament again in Coventry in 1935, unsuccessfully, but won a by-election in Derby in July 1936 after the sitting Member of Parliament J. H. Thomas resigned ; when that seat was divided in 1950, he transferred to Derby South and continued until 1970.

One of their best results was when Tom French polled 19 % in the 1986 Upper Bann by-election, although no other candidates stood against the sitting MP and a year later, when other parties contested the constituency, he only polled 4. 7 % of the vote.

However, like the Tasmanian system, legislation provides for the ability to call a by-election if the party the vacating member stood for at the original election does not have any qualifying candidates-for instance, if all of their candidates at the original election were elected.

She again stood for election in 1926, this time at a by-election in the Wallsend constituency.

He stood as the SNP candidate in the 1962 West Lothian by-election against Tam Dalyell, managing to come second, which came as a surprise because the SNP had previously made little impact in the area.

In the 1989 Vauxhall by-election, Harrington stood as the Official National Front candidate against Ted Budden for the Flag NF, both sides cat-calling at one another during the declaration of the result.

In the 1992 general election May stood ( and lost ) in the safe Labour seat of North West Durham and then unsuccessfully contested the 1994 Barking by-election.