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  • Thumbnail for Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet
    records. He was returned again unopposed in 1741 and at the top of a poll in 1747. At the 1754 British general election he was returned unopposed again for...
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  • Thumbnail for 1951 United Kingdom general election
    general election in which any candidates have been returned unopposed although there have been later unopposed by-elections. The subsequent Labour defeat was...
    24 KB (1,335 words) - 13:51, 12 June 2024
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    Hughes was returned unopposed. There were 144 spoilt/rejected ballots. Navnit Dholakia was returned unopposed. Navnit Dholakia was returned unopposed. Diana...
    10 KB (457 words) - 23:49, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne
    is now The Albany in London. At the 1768 general election Lamb was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Ludgershall. In 1770 he was raised to...
    12 KB (855 words) - 11:35, 7 June 2023
  • need to hold an election. This was the third time a president was returned unopposed, following Seán T. O'Kelly in 1952, and Patrick Hillery in 1983. McAleese...
    11 KB (925 words) - 22:20, 22 April 2024
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    contested elections, with the other candidates being returned unopposed. One borough had a double return, where multiple members were recorded elected, and...
    5 KB (478 words) - 11:49, 12 June 2024
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    ballot as "The Speaker seeking re-election". In the past they could be returned unopposed, but this has not happened since 1931. The main (usually two) parties...
    64 KB (7,637 words) - 23:49, 31 May 2024
  • member elected unopposed to the 18th Lok Sabha before election on 7 May. Dalal was elected on 22 April, per announcement by the Returning officer of Surat...
    7 KB (497 words) - 18:02, 7 June 2024
  • until 2010 when he was beaten by Paul Swain. In 2007, he had been returned unopposed. He was chairman of the regional council's parks, forests and utilities...
    6 KB (566 words) - 11:24, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
    at the 1695 English general election but was unsuccessful. He was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Eye at a by-election on 3 June 1698. In...
    21 KB (1,682 words) - 07:37, 4 June 2024
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    69 seats) had contested elections, with the other candidates being returned unopposed. Six boroughs had double returns, where multiple members were recorded...
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  • Thumbnail for William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire
    was returned unopposed as member of parliament for Lostwithiel at a by-election in 1721. At the 1722 general election he was returned unopposed as MP...
    10 KB (445 words) - 07:00, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sir William Milner, 1st Baronet
    he voted against the restoration of Bolingbroke's estates. He was returned unopposed at the 1727 general election, and crossed the floor to the Government...
    4 KB (366 words) - 08:33, 12 May 2024
  • brother William were the only candidates – they were elected, i.e. "returned", unopposed. The main aim of the manifesto was to appeal to the electorate in...
    3 KB (375 words) - 08:20, 4 April 2024
  • candidates were returned unopposed. These included Charlie Griffiths who resigned from the aldermanic bench in order to be returned as a councillor....
    27 KB (712 words) - 20:00, 7 June 2024
  • were returned unopposed from 26 geographic constituencies and the National University constituency. The Dublin University constituency returned four Independent...
    26 KB (513 words) - 19:37, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe
    College, Cambridge in 1697 and travelled abroad in 1699. Edgcumbe was returned unopposed as MP for Cornwall at a by-election on 25 June 1701 but never took...
    12 KB (809 words) - 16:09, 13 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll
    Dunbartonshire, where he was returned unopposed in the general elections of 1734, 1741 and 1747. He was returned unopposed again for Dumbartonshire at the 1754...
    14 KB (979 words) - 00:27, 3 June 2024
  • although there had earlier been some speculation that he would be returned unopposed. "East Suffolk Election". Dublin Evening Post. 7 May 1870. Retrieved...
    2 KB (108 words) - 09:53, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1980 Ugandan general election
    the only party to contest all 126 seats, and its candidates were returned unopposed in seventeen constituencies. The opposition claimed that the UPC had...
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