That constituency went to the opposition, and Singapore's very good foreign secretary lost his seat.
The scandal overshadowed Thomas Dodd's re-election bid three years later, and he lost his seat.
Conservative councillor Peter Bedford, who lost his seat to a UKIP candidate, called it a protest vote.
Plaid Cymru's Richard Parry Hughes, outgoing Gwynedd council leader, also lost his seat.
Chinamasa lost his seat in the elections in which Zanu-PF lost control of Parliament for the first time, AP reported.
Roger Jones, the city councillor who did most to push the scheme through, lost his seat in May's local elections.
Conservative Neil Hamilton lost his seat to independent Martin Bell, following allegations about his involvement in the "cash for questions" scandal.
Rep. Max Sandlin lost his seat to Louis Gohmert, and Rep. Nick Lampson lost to Ted Poe.
But one early result on December 31st showed that Joseph Kamotho, the party's secretary-general and education minister, had lost his seat.
Despite this, he famously lost his seat last November to John Thune, a Republican 13 years younger and a good bit taller.
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Former Conservative leader of the council, David Pugh was among those who lost his seat, beaten by independent Richard Priest in Shanklin South.
There was precious little consolation for them: even their long-serving and widely-respected leader of Cannock Chase Council's outgoing administration, Neil Stanley, lost his seat.
He was named prime minister in 2011, replacing fellow billionaire Saad Hariri who lost his seat when Hezbollah members walked out of his cabinet.
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In a statement issued Wednesday, Faircloth, who lost his seat to Democrat John Edwards in 1998, made it clear he is not afraid to challenge Dole.
In this election, he not only lost a full 50% of that voter base, it would appear that he has lost his seat on the bench.
Abdul Hamid Othman lost his seat in the polls but was brought back to his old job (minister in charge of religious affairs) by being appointed a senator.
Even so she has brought a gang of councillors up to Birmingham from the Thames Valley, one who lost his seat, and some new members that they've signed up.
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There are all sorts of tedious bureaucratic reasons why it would be hard for an outsider to get the job, and there is the brutal political reality that he has little clout with Labour bosses, having lost his seat.
Archives assistant Kenneth Baxter told BBC Scotland that Churchill lost his seat in the city after a series of controversies - his feelings on women being allowed to vote, his reported role in sending troops to break up miners' riots, his stance on Irish home rule and the way he dealt with various social issues.
Terence O'Neill eventually resigned in April 1969 after a bruising general election in which he almost lost his own seat to Ian Paisley and in which he was opposed by several of his MPs, among them John Taylor, now Lord Kilclooney.
He soon lost his board seat as well after taking a swing at Meitec's new second-in- command.
Despite a generally good performance, Welsh Tories will have to find a new leader after Nick Bourne lost his regional seat.
Chris Patten helped to win the election for the Tories, but lost his own seat in Bath to the Liberal Democrats in the process.
Former Lib Dem MP Paul Rowen, who lost his Rochdale seat to Labour at the election, said Sir Cyril would be sadly missed by people in the town and across the country.
"That often prohibits candidates who otherwise would be important candidates and good members of Congress from getting sufficient funds, " says former House Speaker Tom Foley, who lost his Washington seat in the 1994 Republican overthrow.
The libel case had been brought against him in December 2010 by Mr Waterson, who lost his Eastbourne seat to Mr Lloyd, and was cleared of any wrongdoing over his expenses claims for a second home in outer London.
"It was getting out of its religious context it was seen as a show of force, " said Daoud Sultanzoi, a commentator on Afghanistan's Tolo TV and a Sunni Pashtun who lost his parliament seat to a Hazara last year in the ethnically mixed Ghazni province.
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