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.

In 1968 he unsuccessfully contested the Sheffield Brightside parliamentary constituency on behalf of the Conservative Party.

In the 2012 Queensland state election the party unsuccessfully contested 6 seats.

In 1990 Atkins unsuccessfully contested the Eastbourne by-election caused by the assassination of the Conservative MP Ian Gow by the Provisional IRA.

He unsuccessfully contested York in 1859, but was elected for Southwark in 1860, and from 1861 to 1866 was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the successive administrations of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell.

Haughey's first attempt at election to the Dáil came in June 1951, when he unsuccessfully contested the general election.

At the 1966 general election and 1970 general election, Howard unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour parliamentary constituency of Liverpool Edge Hill.

In the 1955 general election Kaufman had unsuccessfully contested the safe Conservative seat of Bromley, and in the 1959 general election, Gillingham.

Her lawyers contested the validity of the changes and unsuccessfully fought for her stated desire to be President of the Foundation as of January 2006, when she turned 21.

Gair unsuccessfully contested the Senate election of 1961 for the DLP.

In 1907 Sinn Féin unsuccessfully contested a by-election in North Leitrim, where the sitting MP, one Charles Dolan of Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, had defected to Sinn Féin.

To enter Parliament was one of his ambitions, and in 1868 he unsuccessfully contested Mid-Somerset.

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 ).

At the 1955 general election, Ridley unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour seat of Blyth.

He unsuccessfully contested Bristol East at the 1987 general election where he finished in third place, some 11, 659 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Jonathan Sayeed.

He subsequently unsuccessfully contested the East Sussex and Kent South ( European Parliament constituency ) in the 1994 elections to the European Parliament.

In 1996 he unsuccessfully contested Chiluba for the presidency of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy.

In March 1848 he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Lancaster, and then made a long tour in the West Indies, Canada and the United States.

Instead he unsuccessfully contested Blackburn in the January election and Wisbech in the December election.

She unsuccessfully contested the Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency at the 1983 Election.

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

The party unsuccessfully contested the 2011 election, gaining just 1, 069 votes-the lowest of any registered party.

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.

Unlike state broadcaster RTP and commercial rival SIC, which have always shown foreign programmes in the original language with subtitles, TVI tried, unsuccessfully, to dub foreign programmes into Portuguese after achieving marginal success with Latin American Spanish-language soap operas dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese.

She unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale at the 1997 general election, a traditional Conservative and Scottish National Party ( SNP ) marginal.

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.

He also ran unsuccessfully for a seat in parliament and served as advisor to the committee that drafted the ill-fated democratic Weimar Constitution of 1919.

Weber also ran, unsuccessfully, for a parliamentary seat, as a member of the liberal German Democratic Party, which he had co-founded.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Labour Party's ultra-safe seat of Normanton at a by-election in 1947 ( when the Labour majority was 62 %), he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wolverhampton South West in the 1950 general election.

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.

From 2005 to 2006 Rosselló unsuccessfully sought to remove Senate President Kenneth McClintock from his seat and replace him.

In 1977, he ran unsuccessfully for Georgia's 5th Congressional District seat, losing to Congressman John Lewis.

In the 2006 federal election, he unsuccessfully sought a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.

After standing unsuccessfully for a Chamber of Deputies seat for the département of the Aisne constituency in 1865 and 1860, Waddington was returned by that constituency in the election of 1871.

In the early 1960s, he was a Conservative Party activist and sought, unsuccessfully, the seat of Edmonton in the 1964 general election.

Rather than seek reelection to the House, Sandlin ran unsuccessfully in the 1936 Democratic primary against Allen J. Ellender for an open seat in the U. S. Senate.

1935 ), an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the United States House of Representatives, having been defeated by the Republican Jon C. Hinson, then the aide to U. S. Representative Thad Cochran, who ran successfully to succeed James O. Eastland for the other Mississippi seat in the U. S. Senate.

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.

Cavendish ran unsuccessfully as a National Liberal candidate for Chesterfield in the 1945 general election and as a Conservative in the same seat in 1950.

He unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the cantonal executive ( regenza ) in 1893.

As a coalitionist, Bennett was re-elected in 1945, but vacated the seat in 1948 in order to run, unsuccessfully, as Progressive Conservative candidate in the Yale federal by-election of that year.

He made one last attempt to reclaim a Dáil seat, standing unsuccessfully in the Dublin South – West constituency at 1981 general election.

In February 2000 he resigned his membership of the Labour Party, citing its treatment of Ken Livingstone, and in support of Livingstone he fought unsuccessfully for a seat on the London Assembly as an Independent Green Left candidate.

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