Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suraj Patel (3rd nomination)
Being an as yet non-winning candidate in a future election does not get a person into Wikipedia in and of itself — a person has to ''win'' the election and thereby ''hold'' the seat, not just run in it, to clear  as a politician. And that goes ''double'' for people who, as of right now, are still only as yet non-winning candidates in party ''primaries'' — being a primary challenger to an incumbent congressperson is very definitely not a notability criterion in its own right. There is no evidence of preexisting notability here for any other reason independent of his candidacy, and no evidence that anything has happened to change the notability equation since the first discussion — as near as I can tell, HPLeu's grounds for claiming that the equation had changed was that Patel outraised Maloney in April, but that's not a notability criterion for a candidate either. He'll be eligible to have this article recreated on or after November 6 if he wins the seat, but nothing here is grounds for him to already have an article today
— User:Bearcat, 18:21, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)