Sentences with phrase «deselected by his constituency»
He did not contest the 1987 general election, having been deselected by his constituency party (subsequent to boundary changes in 1983 which added roughly half of the old Wood Green constituency) in favour of Bernie Grant.
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Blunt first entered the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, when he replaced the then MP Sir George Gardiner who had been deselected by the Constituency Conservative Association Executive Council.
In 1975, he was deselected by his Constituency Labour Party.
A Conservative MP deselected by her constituency association says it was «the result of some ungentlemanly behaviour» ahead of Friday's ballot in her Thirsk and Malton seat.
Not exact matches
A Tory MP heavily implicated in the expenses scandal survived an attempt by some constituency party members to deselect her last night.
In the run - up to the 1997 election the nomination was initially won by Nicholas Scott, MP for the previous Chelsea constituency, but following allegations of alcoholism he was deselected.