Conservative Party candidate for governor four years ago.
In the 1992 general election the new Conservative Party candidate won the seat with an absolute majority.
Had he not stood, a Conservative Party candidate would have been found to stand.
A Conservative Party candidate came very close to gaining the seat in the 1980s.
The remainder of the vote went to a Republican and a Conservative Party candidate.
At the following election in 1949, official Conservative Party candidates stood for the first time.
He lost his seat at the 1935 general election, to the Conservative Party candidate.
"The only question here is whether the Conservative Party candidate can beat the Republican," he said.
It was the first time since direct presidential elections were introduced in 1914 that a Conservative Party candidate had not won.
All of them were running as Conservative Party candidates.
