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In a by-election for the riding of Labrador West held on March 13, 2007, Labrador Party candidate Ron Barron came in third, winning 670 of a total of just over 4000 votes cast.
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Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Parliamentary Constituency, renowned for high levels of voting and for electing Provisional IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands as a Member of Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981, shortly before his death.
He lost his seat in the 1970 election, but returned as an MP for Glasgow Garscadden at a by-election in 1978.
His parliamentary career began when he was elected MP for Bossiney, Devon in a 1581 by-election.
They want to use the by-election as a de facto referendum for universal suffrage and the abolition of the functional constituencies.
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.
Major kept his economic team unchanged for seven months after Black Wednesday before he replaced Norman Lamont with Kenneth Clarke as Chancellor of the Exchequer, after months of press criticism of Lamont and disastrous defeat at a by-election in Newbury.
In February 1942, he won a by-election for Quebec East, Lapointe's old riding.
Fraser was emboldened by a swing to the coalition in a by-election for the Division of Flinders.
Critically, Labour held on in a subsequent by-election in Darlington and Foot remained leader for the 1983 general election.
Later in 1995, Queensland Labor barely held onto its majority at the 1995 state election before losing it altogether in a 1996 by-election held a week after Keating called a federal election for March.
In a Outremont by-election in 1942, Trudeau campaigned for the anticonscription candidate Jean Drapeau ( later the Mayor of Montreal ), and he was thenceforth expelled from the Officers ' Training Corps for lack of discipline.
Having failed to win Solihull in 1945, he was elected to the House of Commons in a 1948 by-election as the Member of Parliament for Southwark Central, becoming the " Baby of the House.
He was more successful in 1982, being elected in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election as the MP for a previously Conservative-held seat.
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A by-election for the seat was to be held due to the illness of an elderly Tory, and the master of Magdalene College had obtained agreement that none of the major parties would field a candidate if Keynes chose to stand.
Outside the prison in a major publicity coup, Sands was nominated for Parliament and won the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election.
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.
In May he spoke for Alan Sked of the Anti-Federalist League ( the forerunner of the United Kingdom Independence Party ) who was standing at the Newbury by-election.
Lloyd George was returned as Liberal MP for Carnarvon Boroughs — by a margin of 19 votes — on 13 April 1890 at a by-election caused by the death of the former Conservative member.
" The by-election campaign led directly to " considerable growth " for the party's membership.
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It first entered Parliament in 1989 when Deborah Grey won a by-election in an Edmonton-area riding.
The first Bloquiste candidate to be elected was Gilles Duceppe, then a union organizer, in a by-election for the Montreal riding of Laurier — Sainte-Marie on 13 August 1990.
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He hoped to be considered for the Liberal candidacy for the Outremont by-election in September 2007, but was obliged to withdraw after being told by Stéphane Dion that the riding was reserved for another candidate.
He was later elected in a by-election in the riding of Burnaby — Coquitlam, British Columbia.
He won a seat again in a 1969 by-election in the riding of Nanaimo — Cowichan — The Islands, following the death of Colin Cameron in 1968, and represented it until his retirement from electoral politics in 1979.
It first entered Parliament in 1989 when Deborah Grey won a by-election in an Edmonton-area riding.
Brownlee agreed, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a by-election in the riding of Ponoka.
Getty was also facing political problems within Alberta, including a defeat in his home riding of Edmonton-Whitemud in the 1989 election ( leading to a successful by-election in Stettler, vacated by a P. C.
In 1908, Labour candidate Donald McNabb was elected in a Lethbridge by-election ; the riding had previously been held by a Liberal.
This allowed Archibald to run for the riding in a by-election, in which he defeated Liberal Frederick Pearson, 1585 votes to 1230.
Rae returned to the Canadian House of Commons on March 31, 2008 as a Liberal MP after winning a March 17, 2008 by-election holding the riding that had previously been held by Liberal Bill Graham.
Rae was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1978 by-election, defeating Progressive Conservative Tom Clifford by 420 votes in the Toronto riding of Broadview.
In a March 2001 by-election, he was replaced as MPP for the riding of Parry Sound — Muskoka by Norm Miller, son of former Premier Frank Miller.
After commissioning a poll which suggested that she would win her riding should a by-election be called, Copps accordingly vacated her Hamilton East seat in 1996, and promptly ran again in the ensuing by-election.
The by-election would have Reform put up billboards around her riding, one of which featured a pig at a trough with " SHEILA " marked on it ; and another with her picture and, " Promise to cut the GST: It worked last time!
He was re-elected to the legislature in a by-election in Romanow's riding of Saskatoon Riversdale.
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In December 2005 he made waves in sovereigntist circles by supporting Liberal candidate and close, longtime friend Raymond Bachand in a provincial by-election in the Outremont riding.
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