Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne, QC is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1962 to 1974. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he was a Labour MP until his deselection in 1972, following which he resigned his seat and won the subsequent by-election in 1973 as a Democratic Labour candidate.
Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott PC is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Richard Giles Douglas was a Scottish politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) elected as a Labour Co-operative candidate, but who subsequently joined the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Catherine Murphy is an Irish Social Democrats politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare North constituency since the 2011 general election, and previously from 2005 to 2007. She has been the joint Leader of the Social Democrats since July 2015.
Simon Francis Murphy is a British charity executive and former politician who was a Labour Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2004.
Cork City was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1880 to 1922 it returned two members of parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament, as it was no longer in the UK.
East Kerry was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.
Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle, Baron Hoyle JP is a British politician and life peer who was chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 1997 and a lord-in-waiting from 1997 to 1999. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Nelson and Colne from 1974 to 1979 and Warrington North from 1981 to 1997.
Ciarán P. Murphy is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who was a Teachta Dála (TD) for Wicklow from 1973 to 1982.
Michael Norman Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead was a National Liberal and British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1960 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1992 for the Conservatives.
Stanley Raymond McMaster was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland and a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London.
Danny Kennedy is a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland, who served as the Chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from December 2019 to May 2022. Kennedy previously served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Newry and Armagh from 1998 to 2017.
Massachusetts held a special election to fill a vacancy in Massachusetts's 5th congressional district on October 16, 2007. Democrat Niki Tsongas won election to Congress, defeating Republican Jim Ogonowski in an election that was closer than expected.
Jim Fairlie is a Scottish politician and financial analyst.
The 1874 and 1875 United States Senate elections had the Democratic Party gain nine seats in the United States Senate from the Republican Party. Republicans remained in the majority, however.
Marcus Charles Jones is a Conservative Party politician in the UK who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nuneaton since 2010. Previously he had been Leader of Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council.
The 1912 Carmarthen District by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom on 29 January 1912 for the Carmarthen District in Wales. The constituency of Carmarthen District of Boroughs, was centred on the boroughs of Carmarthen and Llanelli. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The 2004 San Diego mayoral election was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 to elect the mayor for San Diego. Incumbent mayor Dick Murphy stood for reelection for a second term.
Robert Curran was a Scottish nationalist political activist. He was youngest Provost in Scotland, and the first SNP provost. He stood as an SNP candidate in the Stirling and Falkirk by-election of 1948 and for Stirling and Falkirk in the 1950 general election.
