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Events with high posterior probability

Carlos Lacerda	Lacerda was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies later in 1954 with the most votes of any candidate.
Peter Percival Elder	In 1890 he was again elected to the house of representatives, this time on the'' Alliance'' ticket, and was again Speaker.
Gaspar Llamazares	Llamazares was elected deputy in the Spanish Congress for the constituency of Asturias in the 2000 General Elections.
Malcolm Cameron (Canadian politician)	After the union of Upper and Lower Canada, he continued to represent Lanark in the Legislative Assembly until 1847.
Hibi Eden	Hibi Eden was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Kerala from Ernakulam District in 2011.
K. B. Ganesh Kumar	In May 2001, Ganesh Kumar was elected to the Kerala Assembly from Pathanapuram on the Kerala Congress (B) ticket.
Akito Arima	In 1998 he entered the Diet of Japan as a member of the House of Councillors for the Liberal Democratic Party.
Ivan Scalfarotto	He has been elected in the Chamber of Deputies after the 2013 general election.
Manzoor Wattoo	Then in 1985, he secured the office of the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan on Pakistan Muslim League ticket.
George Chambers	Born in Port of Spain, Chambers joined the People's National Movement (PNM) in 1956, and was elected to Parliament representing the St. Ann's East seat.
Halimah Yacob	Halimah entered politics in 2001 when she was elected as an MP for the Jurong Group Representation Constituency (GRC).
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry	Chaudhry joined the Convention Muslim League, and after the 1956 elections, he was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly.
Ole Konrad Ribsskog	He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from the constituency Baklandet in 1913, and served one term.
Santosh Mohan Dev	Dev was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1980 from Silchar constituency in Assam.
Ludovic Orban	He has also been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest since 2008.
Lui Tuck Yew	At the 2006 general election, Lui was elected to Parliament as a member of the PAP's team in the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (Tanjong Pagar GRC).
Adolf Daens	Adolf Daens was elected member of the Belgian parliament in 1894.
Jaana Pelkonen	She was also elected as a member of Finnish parliament in elections 2011 representing the National Coalition Party.
Azer Amiraslanov	In 2005, he was elected to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Republic from Shamkir urban constituency no. 98.
Gian Paolo Borghetti	In the first elections held under universal (male) suffrage on 13 and 14 May 1849 he was elected Conseiller Général of his home Canton of Pero-Casevecchie.
Pl?nio Salgado	Salgado was elected to represent Paraná in the Chamber of Deputies in 1958.
Chaudhary Devi Lal	In March 1938 his elder brother was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly in a by-election on the Congress party ticket.
Aloysius Akpan Etok	Aloysius Akpan Etok was elected to the National Senate for the Akwa Ibom North West constituency in 2007.
Heidi L?ck	At 1994 she was a candidate in the parliamentary elections for a second time and was elected as a member of the Bavarian state parliament (Landtag in the 13th Legislative period) due to the district-list (Landesliste) of the SPD Swabia (proportional representation voting system).
Shaikh Shamim Ahmed	In 1980, he was elected as an MLA from the Mumbai Chinchpokli Constituency as an Indian National Congress candidate.
Sharad Pawar	Till the Lok Sabha elections of 1996, Sharad Pawar served as the Leader of the Opposition in State Legislative Council.
Alexandre Ribot	At the general election of that year he was a victim of the Republican rout in the Pas-de-Calais, and did not re-enter the chamber till 1887.
A?cio Neves	Neves took office as Senator, representing his home State of Minas Gerais, on 1 February 2011 for an eight-year term corresponding to the 54th and 55th Legislatures (each Legislature of Congress corresponds to the four-year term of the members of the Lower House, the Chamber of Deputies ; members of the Senate, the Upper House of the Brazilian National Congress, are elected for an eight-year term that covers the span of two Legislatures).
Robert Brasseur	He would sit in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Luxembourg City council until 1925.
Chikage Oogi	Strenuously lobbied to run by Takeo Fukuda, Oogi first elected to the House of Councillors as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party in 1977.
Manzoor Wattoo	Thrice elected for the same office, he secured the office of the Chief Minister of Punjab in 1993 on the PML (Junejo) ticket after a vote of no-confidence in the Punjab legislature against PML-N's serving chief minister Ghulam Haider Wayne.
Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant	Frustrated by the limitations of diplomatic service, he ran for parliament in 1895, securing a seat in the Chamber of Deputies.
Muhammad Ismail	He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Manjeri Parliamentary Constituency three times - in 1962, 67 and 71 as an IUML candidate.
Gauri Shankar Rai	Parliamentary Life : He was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly, as a Praja Socialist Party candidate, from Ballia sadar vidhan sabha in 1957 and defeated congress candidate.
Genki Abe	However, in the 1952 General Election, he ran for a seat lower house of the Diet of Japan, but was not elected.
Alexandros Koumoundouros	His first political distinction emerged in 1853 when he was elected deputy of the province of Messinia (the province of Kalamàta).
Artur Baghdasaryan	On May 30, 1999 he was elected Deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia of the 2nd Convocation from the Shengavit Electoral District Number 21, and in September 1999 was the Head of the'' Orinats Yerkir'' Faction of the National Assembly.
Jacob Oulanyah	In 2001 he entered politics by successfully contesting for the parliamentary seat of'' Omoro County'' in Gulu District on the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) ticket.
M. G. Ramachandran	He was first elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly in 1967.
Edmund W. Barker	He continued to represent the constituency in the Singapore Parliament through to 1988.
Soledad Becerril	Becerril was elected as a UCD deputy to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Seville Province and was re-elected at the 1979 election.
Sheila Camerer	In 1987 she was elected Member of Parliament for the Johannesburg constituency of Rosettenville and two years later appointed deputy justice minister in the government of reformist NP leader and South African president FW de Klerk.
Eriko Yamatani	She then returned to the Diet as a proportional representative of the Liberal Democratic Party in 2004.
Reinhold Hilbers	He has been a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony since March 2003.
Napoleon (actor)	Subsequently, Napoleon nurtured the Perambalur constituency in the hope of becoming a Member of Parliament for the DMK, and succeeded in the 2009 Lok Sabha election.
Ioannis Passalidis	In the 1923 general election he was elected for the first time to the Greek Parliament as a republican deputy.
Eddie Villanueva	Emmanuel Joel Villanueva, representing the CIBAC party list, became the youngest member of the House of Representatives (HOR) when he took his oath of office on February 6, 2002.
C. H. Mohammed Koya	Mohammed Koya was elected into the Kerala Legislative Assembly from the Tanur constituency in 1960.
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry	In the 1956 elections, he was elected as member of the West Pakistan Assembly.
Bruno Tuybens	In the 2007 Belgian general elections Tuybens was elected to the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives.
Yoriyasu Arima	Arima was elected to the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan in 1924 under the Rikken Seiyukai party.
Bernadette Lahai	In 2002, Lahai ran for one of Kenema District's seats in parliament as a member of the then ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP).
Indranee Rajah	A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), she has been a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency since 2001.
K. P. Munusamy	He contested in the 1991 Tamil Nadu state assembly elections where he emerged successful from Kaveripattinam constituency.
Anerood Jugnauth	He was first elected to parliament as an Independent Forward Block candidate in the constituency of Rivière du Rempart District in 1963.
Miet Smet	She was elected to the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives in 1978.
Machida Ch?ji	He subsequently became chairman of Yamaguchi Bank (the forerunner of Sanwa Bank) On May 15, 1912 Machida was elected to a seat from the Akita district in the lower house of the Diet of Japan.
Alimineti Madhava Reddy	He got elected to Legislative assembly of Andhra Pradesh from Bhongir assembly constituency from Telugu Desam Party (TDP) political party in 1985 as first time.
Anerood Jugnauth	At the general elections held on 11 September 2000, he was elected as first member of constituency No 7 (Piton/Rivi ère du Rempart) and was appointed as Prime Minister.
Dinesh Gunawardena	In 1989, he contested the General Election from the MEP in the Colombo District, and was successful in returning to Parliament under the Proportional Representation.
Vijayakanth	Vijayakanth emerged victorious from the Rishivandhiyam constituency in the 2011 state assembly elections.
Clelio Darida	He was elected in the Chamber of Deputies, being confirmed until 1992, when he was not elected.
Marco Reguzzoni	In 2002 he was the youngest president ever elected in a province in Italy.
Ayla Akat Ata	In July 2007, she stood as an independent candidate in the Turkish parliamentary elections and entered the Turkish Parliament, joining the Democratic Society Party (DTP).
Beslan Butba	In 2012, Besla Butba was again elected to Parliament for constituency no. 26 in his native Chlou, in a by-election organised after the sudden death of newly elected deputy Temur Logua.
Pravind Jugnauth	He was candidate for the first time in the general elections of 1995 in constituency Vieux Grand Port and Rose Belle but was defeated and came fourth due to the landslide victory of the Labour Party and Mauritius Militant Movement.
Nalamada Uttam Kumar Reddy	He won Andhra Pradesh State Assembly elections, 1999 for Indian National Congress in Kodad Assembly Constituency.
Roberto Iglesias	He stepped down in 2003, being elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.
Abdul Akbar Khan	After the 1988 General Elections he was appointed Deputy Speaker KPK Assembly (then N. W. F-P Assembly).
Qazi Hussain Ahmad	Hussain Ahmad was first elected as a member of the Senate of Pakistan in 1986 for a term of six years.
Armen Harutyunyan	On 17 February 2006, Harutyunyan was elected for a six-year term as the Human Rights Defender (ombudsman) of Armenia, with more than 3/5 of the votes of deputies in the National Assembly.
Anas Urbaningrum	Anas was appointed as member of parliament in the election of 2009 from the voting region of East Java VII which includes the cities of Blitar, Blitar District, Kediri, Kediri and Tulungagung District taking in the largest votes at 178.
Gerald Ssendaula	In 1980 Ssendaula joined politics as a Democratic Party supporter contesting for Parliament MP and got elected for Bukoto Central (presently Bukomansimbi and Masaka Municipality).
Dominique Brasseur	Brasseur was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1866, representing the canton of Esch-sur-Alzette.
A?cio Neves	In 2001, he was elected as the President (Speaker) of the Chamber of Deputies with more votes than the sum of all the other candidates.
Albert Theodor Alexius Moeskau	In the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1912 he was elected to the Parliament of Norway and served through one term.
Herv? de Charette	Member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), he was elected deputy for the first time in 1986 as representative of the Maine-et-Loire département.
Ichir? Ozawa	After his father's death he was first elected to the Diet of Japan in 1969, becoming a strong supporter of Kakuei Tanaka and his faction in the LDP.
Antoni Piechniczek	In 2007 Piechniczek was elected to the Senate of the Republic of Poland (upper chamber of Polish parliament) and since 2007-11-05 he is a senator VII Term.
Chitta Basu (politician)	In 1957, he was first elected to the West Bengal state legislative assembly from Barasat constituency of the then undivided 24 Pargana s district.
Pratibha Patil	In the 1991 elections for the 10th Lok Sabha, she was elected as a Member of Parliament representing the Amravati constituency.
Nazeer Ahmed (space scientist)	In 1977, he returned briefly to India and was elected a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the 57th constituency.
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu	Ndlovu was nominated as ZANU-PF's candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Pelandaba-Mpopoma constituency in Bulawayo in the March 2008 parliamentary election.
Abdias do Nascimento	Nascimento returned to Brazil in 1983 and was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies.
Torstein Rudihagen	In the election of 1997, he was elected to the Parliament of Norway from his home county of Oppland.
K. E. Krishnamurthy	Krishnamurthy made his debut as MLA from Dhone assembly constituency in 1978 from the Indian National Congress.
Ram Vilas Paswan	On being released in 1977, he became a member of the Janata Party and won election to Parliament for the first time on its ticket, and he held the world record for winning election by highest margin.
Dorjee Khandu	In 2009, he was again elected unopposed from the same constituency and sworn in as the Chief Minister of the state on 25 October 2009.
Giridhar Gamang	In 1972, he was elected for the first time to the 5th Lok Sabha from Koraput.
K. E. Krishnamurthy	He later resigned Indian National Congress (INC) party and joined the Telugu Desam Party and won a third term as MLA from the same Dhone constituency in 1985.
Asaf Ali	He was elected in 1935 as a member of the Central Legislative Assembly from Delhi representing the Muslim Nationalist Party.
Trond Giske	He served until 1996, the following year he was elected to the parliament, the Storting for the first time, he has since been reelected on three occasions.
Georges Mandel	In 1919 Mandel was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from Gironde.
Rafael Bielsa	At the 2005 legislative elections he won a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, representing the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Evelyn Matthei	Following Chile's return to democracy in 1989, she successfully ran for Deputy of the 23rd Electoral District the year after.
Darbara Singh	He was elected to the lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha in 1971 from the Hoshiarpur constituency in Punjab.
Pere Portabella	Portabella was elected Senator during Spain's first democratic elections in 1977.
Constantin C. Arion	C. C. Arion made his debut in politics as a National Liberal, ran in the elections of 1884, and was elected to the Assembly of Deputies in Ilfov County.
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II	In October 1959, he was elected by the legislative assembly as the first Prime Minister of Samoa.
Maragatham Chandrasekar	Maragatham married R. Chandrasekar and had a son and a daughter, Lata Priyakumar who also served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu Maragatham Chandrasekar joined the Indian National Congress and was elected to the Lok Sabha from Tiruvallur in the 1951 parliamentary elections.