Event class: elected, riding, ran, federal election, candidate, provincial election, election, first, legislature, commons

Events with high posterior probability

Yvon Dupuis	He was first elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1952 provincial election in the riding of Montréal -- Sainte-Marie as a member of the Liberal Party of Quebec.
Bona Arsenault	Switching to the federal scene, in 1940, he ran as a National Government candidate in the Quebec riding of Bonaventure and was defeated.
George H. V. Bulyea	In the 1891 Northwest Territories election, he ran as an unsuccessful candidate for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories for the riding of South Qu'Appelle.
Barry Devolin	Devolin previously ran in the 1993 federal election as a member of the Reform Party in the riding of Victoria -- Haliburton.
Frank Klees	Klees was first elected to the legislature in the election of 1995, defeating former Liberal leadership candidate Charles Beer in York North.
John Hume Agnew	He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1903 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate F. W. Clinigan by 25 votes in the Virden constituency.
Michel Chartrand	In the 1945 federal election, he was the Bloc Populaire candidate in the Chambly-Rouville riding.
Hector Authier	Authier won a by-election in 1923 and became the Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the provincial district of Abitibi.
Bill Boyd (Canadian politician)	Boyd returned to the Saskatchewan Legislature in the 2007 Saskatchewan general election.
Doug Lewis	A chartered accountant and lawyer by training, Lewis entered the Canadian House of Commons when he won the seat of Simcoe North, Ontario, as a Progressive Conservative in the 1979 federal election.
Margaret Marland	Marland was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1985 provincial election, defeating her Liberal opponent by about 1,500 votes in the traditionally Conservative riding of Mississauga South.
Dave Neumann	Neumann was elected to the Ontario legislature for Brantford in the 1987 provincial election, defeating New Democrat Jack Tubman and Progressive Conservative incumbent Phil Gillies.
Al Kolyn	Kolyn was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1981 provincial election, defeating NDP newcomer Don Sullivan by 1,232 votes.
James Cornwall	Cornwall ran as a provincial Liberal candidate in the 1905 Alberta general election in the Peace River electoral district.
James Edgar Walker	He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of York Centre in the 1962 federal election.
Robert Gardiner (politician)	Gardiner first ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons for the Progressive Party of Canada in a by-election on June 27, 1921.
Pauloosie Paniloo	Paniloo was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1983 Northwest Territories general election.
Eric Hoskins	In the 2011 Ontario election, Hoskins won his seat in the riding of St. Paul's with 58.
Ray Funk	He ran again in Churchill River in the 2000 election.
Jim Wiseman	His son Evan, ran for the NDP in the 2011 election in the riding of Ajax -- Pickering.
Roland Penner	In 1980, he announced that he would seek the New Democratic Party of Manitoba nomination for St. Johns in the next provincial election.
William Cecil Ross	Ross first ran for provincial office in the 1945 election, campaigning for the'' Labor-Progressive Party'' (as the Communist Party had renamed itself) in the riding of Assiniboia.
Allen Sulatycky	He was elected to the House of Commons for Rocky Mountain defeating Douglas Marmaduke Caston in the 1968 federal election as a Liberal candidate.
Susan Fish	She ran for Bill Davis' Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1981 Ontario election and was elected as Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the St. George constituency in downtown Toronto.
Robert James Manion	He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons during the conscription election of 1917 as a Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Fort William, Ontario.
Hugh Faulkner	Faulkner surprised political observers by handily defeating former Premier of Manitoba Dufferin Roblin who ran in Peterborough as a'' star candidate'' for the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1974 election.
Dennis Drainville	He left that position and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1990.
Anita Neville	In the 2000 federal election, Neville was the Liberal nominee for the Winnipeg South Centre, previously held by the retiring Lloyd Axworthy.
Paul Johnson (Canadian politician)	The NDP won a majority government in the 1990 provincial election, and Johnson was elected over Progressive Conservative candidate Don Bonter by about 1,000 votes in the renamed riding of Prince Edward -- Lennox -- South Hastings (MacDonald finished third).
Yuri Shymko	For the 1979 federal election, his riding was redistributed into the newly formed Parkdale -- High Park electoral district.
Dana Larsen	In the 2000 Canadian federal election, Larsen ran as the Marijuana Party candidate for the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, receiving 3 % of the vote.
Steve Kent (politician)	In March 2000, Kent announced he was seeking the Liberal Party of Canada nomination for a provincial by-election to be held in the riding of St. John's West.
Adam Giambrone	At age 20, he ran for the NDP in the riding of Mount Royal in the 1997 federal election, in which he finished fifth out of six candidates.
John Gilbert Higgins	In Newfoundland's first provincial election on May 27, 1949, Higgins was elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly as a Progressive Conservative from St. John's East.
Greg Malone (actor)	He ran as a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the St. John's West by-election in 2000, losing narrowly to Loyola Hearn.
Lucie Leblanc	She campaigned on behalf of local Conservative candidate Claude Carignan during the federal election of 2008.
John Thompson (Manitoba politician)	Turning to national politics, he campaigned in the 1940 federal election as a'' National Government'' (i. e., Conservative) candidate, but lost to the Liberal, James Ewen Matthews.
John Brewin	Brewin first ran for federal office in 1984 against veteran PC incumbent Allan McKinnon.
Michael Clark (Canadian politician)	Clark first ran as a Liberal candidate in the Rosebud electoral district in the 1905 Alberta general election.
Hubert Biermans	He ran for the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the 1919 Quebec general election as an'' independent liberal'' candidate, in the district of Saint-Maurice, but was defeated by the official liberal incumbent.
Robert W. Mackenzie	He ran for the Canadian House of Commons for the federal New Democratic Party in the 1972 federal election, but finished third in the riding of Hamilton -- Wentworth in a close three-way race.
Bonnie Brown (politician)	She first won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1993 Federal Election in the Oakville-Milton riding.
John Robarts	In 1951, he was elected as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from the city.
Don Johnston	Johnston was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1978 by-election in Westmount in Montreal, Quebec, as a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Ronald Ansley	Ansley ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Leduc in the 1935 Alberta general election.
Joseph Tweed Shaw	He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1921 federal election, defeating future Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bennett by twelve votes in Calgary West.
Leonard Arthur Kitz	Kitz was re-elected in 1956 but two years later resigned the mayorship to run, unsuccessfully, as a Liberal for parliament in the federal riding of Halifax.
Alexander Lucas	Lucas ran for a seat in the 1894 Northwest Territories general election in the West Calgary electoral district.
George William Johnson (politician)	He first campaigned for the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 provincial election, but lost to CCF incumbent Donovan Swailes by 131 votes in Assiniboia.
Laurent-Olivier David	He was defeated again when he ran in the 1892 provincial election for the electoral district of Napierville.
Don Getty	He entered the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as one of six newly elected P. C. s. Four years later, in the 1971 election, Getty was re-elected by more than 3,500 votes in the new riding of Edmonton-Whitemud and was appointed Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs in the new Lougheed majority government.
Robert LeSage	LeSage entered political life in 1989, winning the Liberal nomination for a provincial by-election in Hull.
Laura Albanese	Albanese was appointed as the Ontario Liberal Party candidate for the February 8, 2007 by-election for the Ontario Legislative Assembly in the York South -- Weston.
Bill Vander Zalm	After many years out of the spotlight, Vander Zalm again took a stab at office by running in Delta South in a by-election in 1999 for the Reform Party of British Columbia.
Kevin Lamoureux	On November 29, 2010, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the constituency of Winnipeg North in a by-election.
Wilbert David Dimock	He was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1894 for the electoral district of Colchester County.
Tyrone Benskin	He was elected Member of Parliament in the Jeanne-Le Ber riding, in Montreal, Quebec, in the 2011 Canadian federal election.
Karl Morin-Strom	He ran for the federal New Democratic Party in the 1984 election, but lost to Progressive Conservative Jim Kelleher in the Sault Ste. Marie riding by 2,409 votes.
Robert Franklin Sutherland	He was a member of the city council, and first ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 1900 and was elected.
Joseph Clarke (politician)	He made his first bid for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons, running as a Conservative candidate in the a 1902 by-election in the Yukon electoral district.
Harry B. Chase	Harry B. Chase was elected to his first term as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the constituency of Calgary-Varsity on November 22, 2004.
Ronald Moore (politician)	Moore was elected to his first term in the Alberta Legislature in the 1982 Alberta general election.
Yuri Shymko	Shymko was elected to the House of Commons in a by-election held on October 16, 1978, defeating future cabinet minister Art Eggleton by 1,038 votes in Parkdale.
Felix Holtmann	He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1984 federal election, defeating New Democratic Party incumbent Terry Sargeant by 662 votes in Selkirk -- Interlake amid a national landslide victory for the PC Party under Brian Mulroney.
Frank Arthur Calder	In the 1949 British Columbia election, Calder was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
Lucien Cannon	In a 1913 by-election, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the riding of Dorchester.
G?rard Loiselle	Loiselle successfully ran as an Independent Liberal candidate in the district of Sainte-Anne in 1957 defeating the official Liberal nominee.
Cliff Cullen	When Turtle Mountain MLA Mervin Tweed resigned from the provincial legislature in 2004 (to run for the Canadian House of Commons), Cullen sought and won the Progressive Conservative nomination to succeed him.
Beniah Bowman	Bowman left provincial politics in 1926 to enter federal politics and was elected as a UFO MP for Algoma East to the Canadian House of Commons.
Fran?ois-Eug?ne Mathieu	He ran as a Union Nationale candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the provincial district of Chauveau in the 1966 election.
Jonathan Genest-Jourdain	Genest-Jourdain defeated Bloc Québécois incumbent MP Gérard Asselin at the 2011 Canadian federal election, becoming the first-ever NDP member to represent the Manicouagan riding.
Alvin Hamilton	He ran in the riding of Regina East in the 1968 federal election, and lost by 192 votes to the New Democrat candidate.
William Whiteway	In 1859 he was elected to the House of Assembly as a member of the Conservative Party of Newfoundland and became a supporter of Canadian confederation.
Jim Prentice	Prentice first ran for Parliament as the nominated Progressive Conservative candidate in a spring 2002 by-election in the riding of Calgary Southwest that followed the retirement of Preston Manning as the riding's Member of Parliament (MP).
Jack Davis (Canadian politician)	In 1962, Davis was elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Coast -- Capilano, a riding which stretched from Deep Cove in North Vancouver to Powell River and Pemberton.
Alan Eagleson	In the 1963 federal election, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons for the Progressive Conservatives in the Toronto riding of York West.
Al Palladini	He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 until his death, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris.
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau	In 1867, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in Québec-Comté electoral district and headed a Conservative government as the first Premier of Quebec.
Elisha Jessop	In 1898, at the age of 55, Jessop entered Ontario politics, successfully standing as the Liberal-Conservative candidate for the riding of Lincoln.
Dominique Monet	In 1904, he was elected as the Liberal candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the electoral district of Napierville.
Michel Bourdon	After the fall of the first PQ government in 1985, Bourdon considered running for the Canadian House of Commons as a candidate of the New Democratic Party.
William G. Adams	Adams was elected to the House of Assembly in 1962 as a Liberal for the district of St. John's West.
Mike Schreiner	During the 2011 provincial election Schreiner ran in Simcoe -- Grey losing to Progressive Conservative incumbent Jim Wilson.
Joseph Adair	While serving as an alderman, Adair ran for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1921 election as an independent in the riding of Edmonton.
Jean-Claude Rivest	In 1979, he was elected to the National Assembly as a Liberal Party candidate in a by-election in the riding of Jean-Talon.
Diane Ablonczy	In the 1993 federal election, Ablonczy was elected to Parliament as the Reform Party candidate for the federal riding of Calgary North.
John Ross Taylor	In the 1974 federal election, he was the Western Guard's candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Davenport and described himself during an all candidates meeting as'' a racist and a fascist''.
John W. Leedy	Leedy ran for a seat to the Canadian House of Commons as an independent candidate in the electoral district of Victoria in the 1917 federal election.
Warren Kinsella	Kinsella ran as a Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in the riding of North Vancouver but was defeated by Reform incumbent Ted White.
Charles Richmond Mitchell	Mitchell was first elected in a by-election in Medicine Hat provincial electoral district on June 29, 1910 after he was appointed to the cabinet by Premier Arthur Lewis Sifton on June 1, 1910.
Jeff Leal	He has represented Peterborough in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2003 as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party and is currently serving as the Minister of Rural Affairs.
John Edmund Parry	He first campaigned for the House of Commons in the 1979 federal election, and finished a close second against Liberal candidate John M. Reid in Kenora -- Rainy River.
Murdoch MacKay	MacKay was the New Democratic Party's candidate for the division of Wolseley in the 1973 provincial election.
Khalil Ramal	Ramal was elected for London -- Fanshawe in the 2003 provincial election, defeating New Democrat Irene Mathyssen and incumbent Progressive Conservative Frank Mazzilli in a close three-way race.
Wilson Parasiuk	Parasiuk first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1973, losing to Progressive Conservative candidate Donald Craik by about 2,000 votes in the suburban Winnipeg riding of Riel.
Peter Irniq	He was elected to the 1975 Northwest Territories general election and represented the riding of the Keewatin Region for four years.
Nelson Gordon Bigelow	Bigelow was elected to the provincial legislature in an 1892 by-election held after the death of Henry Edward Clarke.
Gaston Tremblay	He unsuccessfully ran as a Union Nationale candidate in the 1962 election in the provincial district of Quebec County.
Cory Morgan (blogger)	In 2001, he ran as an independent candidate in the riding of Banff-Cochrane.
Ren? Chaloult	Chaloult first won a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec as a Union Nationale candidate in the 1936 election in the district of Kamouraska.