| If he won, the executive would have the option of holding a by-election to fill the seat. |
| It is a convention that prime ministers are not seen to have any campaigning role in a by-election. |
| But a few months later, he was back, contesting the by-election held to find a new member to fill the seat he had vacated in disgrace. |
| More than that, for the first time in my recollection the party in power hasn't lost a single by-election. |
| Labour's big guns were wheeled out in York today, three days before the city's crucial Bootham ward by-election. |
| After his first victory in a by-election, he went on to the revenue portfolio and then to health in the government of Jean Lesage. |
