McGrady unseated Powell in the South Down constituency in Northern Ireland in the 1987 general election, winning it for the Social Democratic and Labour party (SDLP), which still holds it today.
If you wanted to be very cynical, you could see the same "insurgency" scheme at work with the other big name that's called for Boehner's ouster – David Brat, the freshmen House member and former economics professor who unseated Eric Cantor.
This would, by my count, mark only the eighth time in the history of sub-Saharan Africa that a challenger has unseated an incumbent by means of elections.
In 1997 Westminster beasts didn't come much bigger than Michael Portillo, who was famously unseated in Enfield by the youthful Labour candidate, Stephen Twigg.
But the result was a personal disaster for Jonathan, 57, earning him an unwanted place in history as Nigeria's first democratically unseated leader.
Ironically, I argue against these rules, even though under them I would have unseated Kevin Rudd in 2010, given colleagues would have signed up in sufficient numbers to have him gone, but he could never have defeated me in 2013.
In terms of the independence referendum, I don't think his heart was in the Better Together campaign Alex Salmond Campbell spoke out after Salmond, whose party unseated Kennedy in last month's general election, suggested that the former Lib Dem leader was an unenthusiastic supporter of the Better Together campaign in the referendum.
If EH Bildu ever unseated the PNV, separatism would dominate local politics, just as it does in Catalonia.
If one were held, Pasok might not win the 3% needed to enter parliament, according to polls; and Democratic Left's leader might be unseated.
But under San Diego's so-called "strong mayor" form of governance, mayors cannot be unseated by the council.
But by selecting over-doctrinaire and gaffe-prone candidates for several Senate races, they scuppered their chances of winning control of the chamber for the second election running.In the House, Democratic challengers do seem to have unseated some of the Republicans' most outspoken freshmen, such as Allen West of Florida and Joe Walsh of Illinois.
