A parachute candidate, or carpetbagger in the
United States
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, is a pejorative term
for an
election
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Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...
candidate
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* to be elected to an office — in this case a candidate selection procedure occurs.
* t ...
who does not live in, and has little connection to, the area they are running to represent. The allegation is thus that the candidate is being “parachuted in” for the job by a desperate
political party
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that has no reliable talent local to the district or state or that the party (or the candidate himself/herself) wishes to give a candidate an easier election than would happen in one's own home area.
Australia
Australian Labor Party
Due to its factions, Labor often has arrangements in place for preselections, which would often result in parachuting candidates. Examples of such include Former
Premier of New South Wales
The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Government of New South Wales follows the Westminster Parliamentary System, with a Parliament of New South Wales acting as the legislature. ...
Kristina Keneally
Kristina Marie Kerscher Keneally (born 19 December 1968) is an American-born Australian politician who was a Labor Senator for New South Wales from February 2018 until April 2022, when she resigned to unsuccessfully contest the House of Repres ...
and
Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard) and Martin Rotsey (guitar). The group was formed in Sydney in 1972 by ...
member
Peter Garrett
Peter Robert Garrett (born 16 April 1953) is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician.
In 1973, Garrett became the lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil. As a performer he is known for his sign ...
.
*In 2004, musician and activist
Peter Garrett
Peter Robert Garrett (born 16 April 1953) is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician.
In 1973, Garrett became the lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil. As a performer he is known for his sign ...
was preselected as the
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms the f ...
candidate for the safe seat of
Kingsford Smith due to the intervention of leader
Mark Latham
Mark William Latham (born 28 February 1961) is an Australian politician and media commentator, currently serving as a member in the New South Wales Legislative Council. He previously served as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and ...
, despite opposition from the local ALP branch, who labelled him an outsider. The
CFMEU
The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU, though most commonly still referred to as CFMEU) is Australia's main trade union in construction, forestry, maritime, mining, energy, textile, clothing and footwear producti ...
issued a statement criticising his selection as "a pathetic version of political celebrity squares".
*In 2007, journalist
Maxine McKew
Maxine Margaret McKew (born 22 July 1953) is a former Australian Labor politician and journalist; she was the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in the First Rudd Ministry and the F ...
was preselected as Labor candidate for
Bennelong
Woollarawarre Bennelong ( 1764 – 3 January 1813), also spelt Baneelon, was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal Australian people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia in 1788. Bennelong serv ...
, held by then-Prime Minister
John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the s ...
. McKew did not live in the electorate at the time, and sold her home in
Mosman
Mosman is a suburb on the Lower North Shore region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mosman is located 8 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local governm ...
to move prior to the election. She went on to defeat Howard, becoming the first candidate to unseat a sitting Prime Minister in an election since 1929.
*In 2013, athlete
Nova Peris
Nova Maree Peris (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey ( Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an ...
was preselected as Labor's leading candidate for the Senate in the
Northern Territory
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. Peris was born and raised in the Northern Territory, but her selection was received with controversy due to her celebrity status and the personal intervention of leader and Prime Minister
Julia Gillard
Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013, holding office as leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She is the first and only ...
, who described the selection as a "captain's pick".
*
Jane Garrett
Jane Furneaux Garrett (16 March 1973 – 2 July 2022) was an Australian politician. She was the Labor Party member for Brunswick in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2010 until 2018, when she transferred to the Victorian Legislative Cou ...
, a former minister in the
First Andrews Ministry in Victoria was parachuted into the number one position in the
Eastern Victoria Region
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at the
2018 Victorian state election, a seat vacated by future MP
Daniel Mulino
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for the
Division of Fraser in Melbourne's western suburbs. Garrett had been the MP for the
Electoral district of Brunswick
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which was becoming increasingly marginal and was criticised for her role in a dispute between the
Country Fire Authority, the United Firefighters Union and the state government in her capacity as Minister for Emergency Services.
*
Daniel Mulino
Daniel Mulino (born 6 November 1969) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Eastern Victoria Region from 2014 to 2018. In the 2019 federal election he was elected as the inaugur ...
is the current MP for the
Division of Fraser in Melbourne's western suburbs. Mulino had previously been a Member of the
Victorian Legislative Council
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for the
Eastern Victoria Region
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, a seat he vacated for
Jane Garrett
Jane Furneaux Garrett (16 March 1973 – 2 July 2022) was an Australian politician. She was the Labor Party member for Brunswick in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2010 until 2018, when she transferred to the Victorian Legislative Cou ...
. Prior to his tenure in the
Parliament of Victoria
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, Mulino was a councillor and mayor for the
City of Casey. Mulino did not live in the electorate of Fraser up until the
2019 Australian federal election where he was elected.
*Former Premier of New South Wales
Kristina Keneally
Kristina Marie Kerscher Keneally (born 19 December 1968) is an American-born Australian politician who was a Labor Senator for New South Wales from February 2018 until April 2022, when she resigned to unsuccessfully contest the House of Repres ...
was preselected as Labor candidate for
2017 Bennelong by-election
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Previous incumbent and Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal candidate John Ale ...
. She lived 800 metres outside the electorate which, combined with her high profile, attracted accusations of parachuting.
*Keneally sought preselection for the House of Representatives again in 2021, this time for the electorate of
Fowler in western Sydney despite living in the affluent northern suburbs. She was also criticised for making the move despite retiring member
Chris Hayes
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having already endorsed local
Vietnamese Australian
}) are Australians of Vietnamese ancestry. Vietnamese Australians are one of the largest groups within the global Vietnamese diaspora. At the 2021 census, 334,781 people stated that they had Vietnamese ancestry (whether alone or in combination w ...
lawyer Tu Le as his successor in a working-class migrant neighbourhood. With heavy publicity drawn toward what is normally one of the safest seats in Australian politics, Keneally suffered a massive swing against the previous result and lost the seat for Labor for the only time in its 13-election existence, with parts of the area being held as far back as 1934 when part of
Werriwa
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. This resulted in a former Liberal Party member who turned independent, Vietnamese Australian and former refugee
Dai Le
Dai Trang Le (Vietnamese: Lê Trang Đài) (born ) is an Australian politician currently serving as the federal member for Fowler, deputy mayor of Fairfield and councillor for Fairfield/Cabravale Ward.
Le arrived in Australia in 1979 as a r ...
being elected.
*
Andrew Charlton
Andrew Charlton (born 1979) is an Australian politician and economist who has been Member of Parliament for the division of Parramatta since 2022.
Charlton has been described as a "centrist, evidence-based, data-driven economist with entrepre ...
, a former adviser to
Prime Minister
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Kevin Rudd
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, was criticised for being parachuted into the
Division of Parramatta
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to succeed retiring MP
Julie Owens
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Early life
Ow ...
at the
2022 Australian federal election
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over local candidates who were from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Prior to the electoral campaign, Charlton resided in Sydney's eastern suburbs in
Bellevue Hills in a property worth over $A16 million and only purchased a property in the electorate once preselected.
*Mat Hilakari, Labor's candidate for the newly established electorate of
Point Cook
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Point Cook ...
was parachuted in for the
2022 Victorian state election
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. Hilakari before pre-selection was residing in Melbourne's southeastern suburbs in
Seaford. He is also the convenor for Labor's Socialist Left faction (of which
Premier Daniel Andrews is a part) in Victoria.
Coalition
*In 2013,
Liberal National Senator
Barnaby Joyce
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was preselected as Nationals candidate for the seat of
New England
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. Joyce was raised in
Tamworth, within the electorate, but had lived in Queensland for over twenty years, and represented the state in the Senate since 2005.
*
Georgina Downer
Georgina Mary Beatrice Downer (born 29 September 1979 in Brussels, Belgium) is an Australian political figure and Director of the Robert Menzies Institute. She has unsuccessfully contested several elections, and is a lawyer and former diplomat.
...
was Liberal candidate for the electorate of
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in the
2018 by-election. Daughter of long-serving MP for Mayo
Alexander Downer
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, Downer had grown up in the area and proclaimed that she was "coming home" in the by-election. However, she had lived most of her life in
Adelaide
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and
Melbourne
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, and sought preselection for a seat in the latter during the 2016 election. She lost to incumbent
Rebekha Sharkie
Rebekha Carina Sharkie ( Che;
born 24 August 1972) is an Australian politician and member of the Centre Alliance party. She is a member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Mayo in South Australia. At the 20 ...
.
*After the resignation of Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull
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Turnbull grad ...
from parliament in 2018,
Dave Sharma
Devanand Noel "Dave" Sharma (born 21 December 1975) is an Australian former politician and former public servant and diplomat who served as member of parliament for Wentworth from 2019 to 2022. He lost the seat at the 2022 election to indep ...
was preselected as the Liberal candidate in the
resulting by-election. Sharma did not live in the electorate at the time. He narrowly lost the by-election, but successfully contested the seat again several months later in the 2019 federal election. He was defeated in the 2022 election by Independent candidate
Allegra Spender
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.
*Former President of the
Australian Labor Party
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Warren Mundine
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was a parachute candidate for the
Liberal Party of Australia
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in the
Division of Gilmore
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History
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at the
2019 Australian federal election to succeed retiring MP
Ann Sudmalis
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. Prior to Mundine's selection, the local party branches had preselected Grant Schultz, whose candidacy would eventually be overridden by the party's state executive to select Mundine instead at the request of prime minister
Scott Morrison
Scott John Morrison (; born 13 May 1968) is an Australian politician. He served as the 30th prime minister of Australia and as Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2018 to 2022, and is currently the member of parliament (MP) for t ...
. Mundine would be defeated by
Fiona Phillips
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Early life
Phillips was born in Canterbury Hospit ...
of the Australian Labor Party who received a
two-party swing of 3.34 per cent while Schultz contested the electorate as an
independent
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* Independ ...
candidate, receiving 7,585 votes.
Canada
*In 2008, the
New Democratic Party
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nominated Phyllis Artiss, who lived in
St. John's, for the northern riding of
Labrador
, nickname = "The Big Land"
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, subdivision_type1 = Province
, subdivision_name1 ...
. Artiss was nominated in the absence of any local candidate, and admitted that her candidacy was not ideal: "It would be much better to have someone from Labrador who has lived there all their lives or much of their lives and worked there, and I haven't done that."
Artiss was not successful in her bid.
*
Patrick Brown, who had previously been MP for
Barrie
Barrie is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada, about north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay, the western arm of Lake Simcoe. Although physically in Simcoe County, Barrie is politically i ...
and MPP for
Simcoe North
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Demographics
:''According to the Canada 2011 Census''; 2013 representation''
Ethnic groups: 87.8% ...
, was criticized as a parachute candidate when he announced his campaign for
Mayor of Brampton
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The following is a list of mayors of Brampton:
List
# John Haggert, 1874–February 1877
# James Golding, 1877–1879 ...
in 2018. Brown ultimately was successful in his mayoral bid.
*
Chrystia Freeland
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faced allegations of being parachuted in by the
Liberal Party
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to contest a 2013 by-election in safe seat
Toronto Centre
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, given she was living in
New York City
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at the time. She ultimately won the seat.
*
Kellie Leitch
Khristinn Kellie Leitch (born July 30, 1970) is a Canadian surgeon and former politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Simcoe—Grey from 2011 to 2019 as a member of the Conservative Party. She was first elected in t ...
was accused of being a parachute candidate when she sought the
Conservative
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nomination in the riding of
Simcoe-Grey in
Ontario
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. Leitch was born in
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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and worked in
Toronto
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at the time of her nomination. Leitch won the seat.
*In 2021, the Conservative Party put forward Lea Mollison for the riding of
Northwest Territories
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. Mollison was a resident of
Thunder Bay
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, Ontario, and reportedly never visited the NWT.
Mollison's campaign ignored local media requests, including an invitation to a candidates' forum, which drew widespread criticism.
*
Lester B. Pearson
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Born in Newtonbrook, Ontario (now part of ...
, born and raised in
Toronto
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, represented the riding of
Algoma East
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It initially consisted of the territorial district ...
, in rural
Northwestern Ontario
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. In his memoirs, Pearson admitted he did not have "any earlier connection" to the riding; Pearson had been seeking entry into the House of Commons and the seat had been made vacant for him by appointing its sitting member to the Senate. Pearson was nevertheless won election eight times before retiring from parliament.
Ireland
*
Avril Doyle
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stood for
Fine Gael
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at the
2004 European elections in the
Ireland East constituency, despite being from Dublin, and was considered a parachute candidate.
*
George Lee was a successful parachute candidate for
Fine Gael
Fine Gael (, ; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish") is a liberal-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil ...
at the 2009
Dublin South by-election.
*Journalist
Susan O'Keeffe
Susan O'Keeffe (born 18 September 1960) is an Irish journalist and former Labour Party politician.
Personal life
She was educated at Mount Anville Secondary School, Dublin, and at University College Cork. She lives in Collooney, County Sligo w ...
was described as a parachute candidate by local candidate Veronica Cawley when she stood for Labour in
Sligo–North Leitrim at the
2011 general election; O'Keeffe is a native of Dublin but lived in Sligo at the time.
*Lorraine Mulligan was described as a parachute candidate when she stood for Labour at the
2014 Dublin West by-election
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, despite living in
Dublin Central.
*
Catherine Noone stood for
Fine Gael
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in
Dublin West at the
2016 general election; she later attempted to be "parachuted" in
Dublin South-West before standing in
Dublin Bay North at the
2020 general election.
*
Sheila Nunan
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stood for the
Labour
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** Manual labour, physical work
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at the
2019 European elections in the
Ireland South constituency, despite living in Dublin. Her team replied that she lived near the border with
County Wicklow
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and her parents are from
County Kerry
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, both counties located in the South constituency.
Michael McNamara claimed that "a parachute candidate could look like desperation. We
he Labour Party
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need to be relevant and have ideas that are relevant to people in rural Ireland."
Taiwan
*
Han Kuo-yu
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was a successful parachute candidate for
Mayor of Kaohsiung
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Titles
List of mayors
Prefectural city era (appointe ...
at
2018 Taiwanese local elections. He has served previously on the
Taipei County Council
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and as a member of
Legislative Yuan
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elected by
Taipei County
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.
United Kingdom
Parachute candidates are common in the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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. The
Westminster system historically emphasizes
party discipline
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over responsiveness to constituencies.
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. S ...
represented
Finchley
Finchley () is a large district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Barnet. Finchley is on high ground, north of Charing Cross.
Nearby districts include: Golders Green, Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, Whetstone, Mill Hill and H ...
despite living in
Chelsea, London
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Chelsea histori ...
.
A 2013
YouGov
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survey found that support for a hypothetical candidate rose by 12 points after voters learned that his opponent had moved to the area two years earlier, and by 30 points if the opponent lived 120 miles away. The percentage of local MPs rose, according to Michael Rush of the
University of Exeter
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, from 25% in
1979 to 45% in
1997
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; Ralph Scott of
Demos
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* DEMOS (ISP), the first internet service provider in the USSR
* Demos Commander, an Orthodox File Manager for Unix-like systems
* plural for Demo (computer programming)
...
calculates that 63% are local.
According to surveys public trust in all MPs has decreased but trust in the local MP has increased, making pre-existing connections to seats more important. Election advertisements mention the candidate's party or party leader less often, and emphasize local connections. Such a change produces MPs that are more attentive to local issues, but may be detrimental to Britain's
first-past-the-post system
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designed to create broad parties that
party whip
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party platform, rather than according to their own individual ideology ...
s stabilize.
*
Roy Jenkins was so unfamiliar with
Glasgow
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, he later wrote, that on arrival to campaign for the
1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election its skyline was "as mysterious to me as the
minarets of Constantinople" to Russian troops during the
Russo-Turkish War
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.
Jenkins won the election, taking the seat from the
Scottish Conservatives
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.
*
Shaun Woodward
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defected from the
Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
to the
Labour Party in 1999. He faced much criticism from former Conservative colleagues, particularly when he refused to resign and fight a by-election.
Woodward did not run for re-election in his safe Conservative seat of
Witney
Witney is a market town on the River Windrush in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is west of Oxford. The place-name "Witney" is derived from the Old English for "Witta's island". The earliest known record of it is as ...
in
Oxfordshire
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, instead being selected for the ultra-safe Labour seat of
St Helens South in
Merseyside
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. Labour Minister
Chris Mullin
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wrote later in his diaries that "the New Labour elite parachuting
oodwardinto a safe seat ...
asone of New Labour's vilest stitch-ups ...
tmade my flesh creep."
*
Luciana Berger
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was an example of Labour parachuting a middle-class southerner into one of its traditional heartland seats, in her case the northern working-class safe seat of
Liverpool Wavertree
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An earlier constituency of the same name existed between 1918 and ...
. She was heavily criticised for having no connection to the Wavertree constituency or Liverpool when she first ran in 2010. When asked by a local radio station to answer basic questions about Liverpool she was unable to, and during the candidate selection process stayed at local MP
Jane Kennedy Jane Kennedy may refer to:
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*Jane Kennedy (actress) (born 1964), Australian actress and comedian
*Jane Kennedy (politician) (born 1958), British Labour Party Member of Parliament
See also
*Ja ...
's house rather than make any permanent home in the area. The media raised suggestions that she was only selected for the seat because of her close connections to the Blair family. She went on to win the seat in 2010 and retain it in 2015 and 2017. After joining the
Liberal Democrats in 2019, she unsuccessfully contested the
Greater London
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*Greater (flamingo), the oldest flamingo on record
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seat of
Finchley and Golders Green
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Boundaries
1997–2010: The ...
in the
2019 general election. She made the decision to stand there because of the seat's high Jewish population and
Remain vote, as well as her affinity towards living in London and choice to raise her children there, rather than in Liverpool.
*
David
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and
Ed Miliband
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were selected to fight safe Labour seats in
northern England
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,
South Shields
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and
Doncaster North
Doncaster North is a constituency in South Yorkshire, England, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Ed Miliband of the Labour Party. From 2010 until 2015, he was Leader of the Opposition before he lost the 20 ...
respectively, despite being
Oxford
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graduates who were born, raised, and living in London whilst working as political advisers. Both would later serve as cabinet ministers and fight against each other in the
2010 party leadership election.
*
Douglas Carswell
John Douglas Wilson Carswell (born 3 May 1971) is a British former politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2017, co-founded Vote Leave and currently serves as president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.
...
defected from the Conservatives to the
UK Independence Party
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in 2014, in turn displacing the existing UKIP candidate in his constituency of
Clacton. Given Carswell was living in London at the time, he was accused carpetbagging by the former UKIP candidate.
*
George Galloway
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was expelled from Labour in 2003 and, despite previously representing
Glasgow Kelvin, did not contest a Glasgow seat in 2005. Instead, he stood for the
Respect Party
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in the Greater London constituency of
Bethnal Green and Bow
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Boundaries
Since the 2014 boundary changes, the constituency has contained the ...
, where he used his opposition to the
Iraq War
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and the local Muslim population to gain the seat from Labour.
Tottenham
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MP and Constitutional Affairs Minister
David Lammy
David Lindon Lammy (born 19 July 1972) is an English politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenh ...
said he was a carpetbagger who had whipped up racial tensions. After standing down from Bethnal Green and Bow in 2010, he had a two-year hiatus from parliament. In a
2012 by-election, he stood for Respect in the
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...
seat of
Bradford West
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, also with a high local Muslim population, where he made a point of not drinking and again gained the seat from Labour. He lost Bradford West in 2015 to Labour's
Naz Shah, after a divisive campaign. Since then, he has made further attempts to parachute himself into constituencies in order to return to parliament. As an
independent
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* Independ ...
, he unsuccessfully contested
Manchester Gorton
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in 2017 and
West Bromwich East
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Members of Parliament
...
in 2019. He also attempted to be selected as the
Brexit Party
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candidate in the Cambridgeshire seat of
Peterborough
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in a
2019 by-election, but the party selected local businessman Mike Greene.
United States
U.S. Senate
*
Scott Brown Scott Brown may refer to:
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*Scott Brown (American football), American college football coach of Kentucky State
* Scott Brown (baseball) (born 1956), former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
*Scott Brown (footballer, bor ...
was the unsuccessful Republican nominee in the
2014 United States Senate election in New Hampshire
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, despite having represented
in the Senate just two years prior. Brown's family had previously resided in New Hampshire, however, and he owned a vacation home in the state.
*
Alan Keyes
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, a resident of
Maryland
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, was the unsuccessful Republican nominee in the
2004 Illinois United States Senate election. Notably, he had previously made two unsuccessful runs for the Senate in Maryland.
*Then-
First Lady of the United States
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Hillary Clinton
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was elected in the
2000 United States Senate election in New York after having bought a house in
Chappaqua, New York
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, in 1999, having previously resided in
Arkansas
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.
*Former
United States Attorney General
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Robert F. Kennedy
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was elected to the U.S. Senate in New York in
1964, serving from 1965 until his death on June 6, 1968. He had previously resided in his home state of
, although as a child he had also lived in the
New York City
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neighborhood of
Riverdale as well as
Bronxville
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, a suburb north of New York City. During the campaign, Kennedy gave a speech in response to criticisms from his opponents over his alleged lack of ties to the state.
*
Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Utah since January 2019, succeeding Orrin Hatch. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts f ...
was elected in the
2018 United States Senate election in Utah, despite having resided in Massachusetts during the
2012 United States presidential election
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.
*
Mehmet Oz
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The son of Tur ...
moved from
Cliffside Park, New Jersey
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several months prior to the primary of the
2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania.
U.S. House of Representatives
*
Alex Mooney
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, a former member of the
Maryland Senate
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and former chairman of the
Maryland Republican Party
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Current elected officials
Members of Congress
U.S. Senate
*None
Both of Maryland's U.S. Senate seats have been held by Dem ...
, moved to
West Virginia
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in 2013 after previously exploring a run for
Maryland's 6th congressional district
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. Less than two years after moving, he was elected in the
2014 general election to represent
West Virginia's 2nd congressional district
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.
*
Trey Hollingsworth
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moved from
Tennessee
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to
Indiana
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in September 2015. He ran as a Republican to represent
Indiana's 9th congressional district
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in the
U.S. House of Representatives
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, and won the election in 2016.
*
Morgan Ortagus
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, a former spokeswoman of
State Department
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, moved from
Florida
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to
Tennessee
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only months prior to announcing her candidacy for
2022 Republican primary in
Tennessee's 5th congressional district. Ortagus was ultimately disqualified due the
Tennessee Republican Party's bylaws requiring candidates to have voted in three of the last four Tennessee Republican primaries.
New Zealand
In 2017
Deborah Russell
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Biography Early life
Russell was born in Whangamōmona, a small town in ...
won selection for the safe Labour seat of
New Lynn
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, in south-east
Auckland
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despite being from
Whangamōmona, a small town in the
Manawatū-Whanganui
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region. She beat out Greg Presland a New Lynn resident for 30 years who had the backing of the local members but lost to Russell who was backed by Labour's Council because of her finance expertise and a pledge to have more women in electorates. Upon winning selection Russell moved to the electorate.
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