Deletion of Mark Ellmore (3rd nomination)

Comment: per  (that's a joke) and the general (if questionable) Wikipedia consensus that sacrificial-lamb candidates in incumbent-safe districts are notable. Separately, if the Jews-for-Jesus controversy is being used to justify notability, then someone should at least put it in the article
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS)

Comment: per having a limited coverage all in connection with his massive failures to get elected.  ''If'' he does technically meet |the GNG, then I think |IAR should be invoked in response - he has exactly no relevance to history, important events, or indeed anything
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:IAR)

Comment: If he meets , it is game, set and match.  is an ''additional'' criterion.  is prefaced with the statement that "should a person fail to meet these additional criteria, '''they may still be notable'''" (emphasis original
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:POLITICIAN||WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: I agree with the nominator that a candidate will get coverage running for a political office, but the coverage itself does not make the candidate notable. The subject technically meets qualification through , but because the subject is a politician it only makes since to follow the more specific criteria of . The subject ran in a general election once and lost in a landslide in a heavily democratic district. There is nothing else notable about the subject other than loosing elections. There are hundreds of failed candidates for political office every two years and simply loosing an election, as the subject has twice, does not meet notability guidelines. As such, this article has no place on Wikipedia
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: Clearly passes the , thus making the sub-guideline  an irrelevant argument. Sources noted by Collect above show notability beyond the local scope
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:POLITICIAN)