Sentence examples similar to by election for from inspiring English sources

A recent by-election for one of the directly elected seats in the legislature resulted in a symbolically important victory for a pro-democracy candidate, Anson Chan, the territory's most senior civil servant during the handover from British rule a decade ago.

After becoming Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2001, he was elected to the House of Assembly in a by-election for the district of Humber West in Corner Brook.

9 April Bobby Sands is elected as an Independent Republican MP at a by-election for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

Rochester and Strood is seen as the most important by-election for many years.

The father-of-five represented Orpington for eight years after winning a Commons by-election for the Liberals in 1962.

His father's death in 1984 prompted a by-election for the seat he had held in the Dáil.

Teather became the youngest serving MP when she won the by-election for Brent East in 2003, aged 29.

A tiny by-election for the state assembly PAS already dominates is ordinarily small beer (or would be, if PAS allowed such a beverage, which it does not).

In 1973, less than a year after the AIADMK was founded, one of its members won a seat in a by-election for the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly.

Its growing strength culminated in the victory of Daniel O'Connell, the Irish "Liberator," at a by-election for County Clare in 1828.

A pointer to bigger successes came with the party's second-place finish in a by-election for a seat in the British Parliament outside Southampton in February.