In New Zealand, some lawmakers campaign for seats representing a local constituency, while others are selected for Parliament by their political parties, and do not have to run for office.
Safe seat: Portillo appears to found a safe berth when selected for Enfield Southgate constituency, following death of Sir Anthony Berry MP in the IRA's Brighton bomb.
In early 1996, he was selected for Stafford, a constituency revised in boundary changes, which was projected to have a Conservative majority.
Now, rebels will struggle to get selected for the new, larger, European constituencies.
In 1951 he contested Tory-held Garston, in Liverpool, before being selected for south Manchester's Wythenshawe constituency, which he failed to take in 1959, but won in 1964, helping to provide Harold Wilson with his tiny majority.
Corbyn is affected by the loss of his Islington North constituency but is unlikely to face any difficulties being selected for the reshaped seat.
Corbyn would be affected by the loss of his Islington North constituency, but would be unlikely to face difficulty being selected for the reshaped seat.
But in 1958, she was selected for the rock-solid north London constituency of Finchley, the seat she represented from October 1959 until she retired at the general election in 1992.
A growing rebellion in the Democratic Unionist Party has seen candidates opposed to the St Andrew's Agreement being selected for the Assembly elections in the neighbouring constituency of party leader Ian Paisley.
