2007 Sedgefield by-election 2007 Sedgefield by-election The Sedgefield by-election, 2007 was a by-election held on 19 July 2007 for the British House of Commons constituency of Sedgefield in County Durham. The Ealing Southall by-election was also held on 19 July. The by-election was triggered when Tony Blair, the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield and former Prime Minister, "resigned" to become envoy for the international diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East. To resign as an MP, Blair accepted the office of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern, thereby deliberately disqualifying himself from Parliament and causing the by-election. Blair
Tanjong Pagar Single Member Constituency the longest serving Member of Parliament (MP) and politician, having served from 1955 until his death on 23 March 2015. "Constituency Abolished (1991 – present) Tanjong Pagar Single Member Constituency Tanjong Pagar Single Member Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 丹戎巴葛單選區; Simplified Chinese: 丹戎巴葛单选区) was a former single-member constituency in Tanjong Pagar, Singapore from 1955 to 1991 and absorbed into Tanjong Pagar GRC. It was one of the longest-surviving wards since the pre-independence era, and has been a People's Action Party stronghold. Its sole MP in its single-member incarnation was Lee Kuan Yew, the long-serving Prime Minister of Singapore. As the member for