Title: Resignation from the British House of Commons
Content: purpose: the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds and of the Manor of Northstead. Members of Parliament (MPs) wishing to give up their seats before a general election are commonly appointed to an office which causes the MP to be disqualified from membership. A number of offices have been used for this purpose historically, all of them "offices of profit under the Crown", but only two are currently used. These are: The offices are only nominally paid. Generally they are vacant until they are again used to effect the resignation of an MP. The Chiltern Hundreds is usually

Title: Resignation from the British House of Commons
Content: the former MP's party (or the Government if they were independent or their party has no other MPs) moves for a writ of election to be issued calling for a by-election. The resulting order is in the following form: "Ordered," That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant for the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present parliament for the [County Constituency] of [named area] in the room of the [Right Honourable] [named individual], who since election for the said [County Constituency] has accepted the Office of

Title: Resignation from the British House of Commons
Content: disqualified from the Commons. Section 6 of that Act describes the consequences of disqualification (for sitting MPs, that their seat shall be vacated). An MP applies for the office to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who usually then signs a warrant appointing the MP to the Crown office. The appointee holds the office until such time as another MP is appointed, or they apply to be released. Sometimes this can be a matter of minutes, as on an occasion when three or more MPs apply on the same day. Once released, they are again free to seek election to the

Title: Residency (domicile)
Content: or a viable local candidate; a paper candidate may be from almost anywhere in the country. As well, when a political party with representation in the House of Commons selects a new leader who is not a sitting Member of Parliament, it is common for a member of that party's caucus to resign his or her seat so that the leader can run in the resulting by-election. The leader may, at their own discretion, continue to represent that district for the duration of their career in politics, or may run in a district closer to their home in the next

Title: By-election
Content: voters elect their preferred candidate are only used to fill a vacancy in a constituency seat. For example, the death of Donald Dewar resulted in a by-election for the constituency of Glasgow Anniesland. If a vacancy arises from the death or resignation of a party list member, the next unelected candidate on the party list is offered the seat. If that candidate has died or declines the seat, it is offered to subsequent candidates on the list until one accepts the seat. For example, on the resignation of Darren Hughes in March 2011, Louisa Wall was elected after all the

Question: What is the term used when a sitting MP is removed as the candidate for a forthcoming election?
Answer: Deselection