The United Future party, led by Peter Dunne, unexpectedly won 7percentt of the vote for nine seats.
A lifelong member of the governing Social Democrats, she had been mentioned as a future party leader.
Partisans then mobilised under its banner to undermine John Major's administration and dictate the selection of future party leaders.
Given that Mr Farron is tipped as a future party leader, some may be dismayed to hear him claiming that he needed to be reminded of this.
His probability of winning a future party nomination is 53 percent, and of becoming president, 33 percent — about one in three.
The Soviets had the Communist Party and, under that, the Komsomol, or Young Communists, a junior varsity for future party members.
Future party leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi ran as an independent and won a seat in the Madras state legislative assembly in 1957.
Jo Swinson, often touted as a future party leader, lost in East Dunbartonshire.The party was not expecting to do well, but why such an annihilation?
Still only 38, Mr Burnham has been described as one of Labour's "young guns" and tipped as a possible future party leader.
Chandler offers several explanations, including preparations for a future party history and the regime's need for reassurance that it was keeping external and internal enemies at bay.
But Osborne, widely seen as a potential future party leader, said he did not expect any contest to be held until "the end of the decade".
