A run for parliament two years later for the Rajasthan constituency gave her the world's largest landslide, 192,909 votes.
Phil Woolas, whose Oldham constituency gives him experience of fighting the BNP, is immigration minister while rail minister Tom Harris, author of a candid political blog, was sacked.
Osborne was brought up in London and in the speech he said that being "a Londoner proud to represent a northern constituency" gave him good insight into the north/south, "rebalancing the economy" argument.
Some moviemakers have probably shied away from the subject for fear of offending viewers; others, like Michael Moore, who directed "Fahrenheit 9/11," haven't worried about alienating a general audience because they've played to a specific constituency, giving their viewers what they wanted to see and hear.
Mr. Khan, who has repeatedly stressed his commitment to women's rights since declaring himself in control of Herat last week and who clearly sees educated women in particular as an important constituency, gave a lengthy speech in which he urged the women to help counter illiteracy in Afghanistan.
His fame as "William Hickey", and his stance as the only candidate with a home in the constituency, gave him a strong local profile.
In the 2000 election, the born again constituency gave Republican nominee George W. Bush a resounding 57% to 42% margin over Democratic challenger Al Gore.
In the general election of 1900 a pact with the Liberals in the Bow and Bromley constituency gave Lansbury, the SDF candidate, a straight fight against the Conservative incumbent, William Guthrie.
Social, cultural and moral issues have become favorable terrain for the Democratic Party, in the way that they once were for the Republicans, but there are economic trends that do not bode so well for core Democratic constituencies, given their disproportionately low income and high-unemployment rates.
