Sentence examples for sitting MP from inspiring English sources

Labour had, after all, held the Bradford West seat for 38 years - except for a short time in the 1980s when the sitting MP defected to the SDP.

The party had held the West Yorkshire seat since 1974, except for a brief period in the 1980s when the sitting MP defected to the SDP.

Labour had held the West Yorkshire seat since 1974, except for a brief period in the 1980s when the sitting MP defected to the SDP.

Labor's Justine Elliott is the sitting MP with a notional margin after redistributions of 1.6%.

Labour saw their majority in Newcastle-under-Lyme shrink to 65, with sitting MP Paul Farrelly narrowly holding off the Conservatives.

Since then Kelly has survived a preselection challenge by former NSW party president, Kent Johns, after head office intervened to save the sitting MP.

The sitting MP Anne McIntosh was deselected following a vote of no confidence by local Conservative activists.

The sitting MP, Eric Joyce, resigned from Labour after admitting assaulting four people in a House of Commons bar.

The LNP will be suffering from the loss of the personal vote of sitting MP Teresa Gambaro in Brisbane.

Conservative Party members in South Suffolk are being balloted over whether to deselect sitting MP Tim Yeo.

The election was triggered by sitting MP Douglas Carswell's surprise decision to defect from the Tories to the UK Independence Party.