Alexander Blevins was a policeman and Ulster Unionist

Ulster Unionist Party

The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...

 politician.

He sought election in 1958

Northern Ireland general election, 1958

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 in the Mid Tyrone

Mid Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Mid Tyrone was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.-Boundaries:Mid Tyrone was a county constituency comprising the central part of County Tyrone. It was created when the House of Commons Act 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland...

 constituency and won with 48.7% of the votes cast. This was in part due to a split in the nationalist vote.

In 1962

Northern Ireland general election, 1962

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 he stood to defend his seat, but this time he finished second to Tom Gormley

Tom Gormley

Tom Gormley was a politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Claudy, Gormley became a farmer before following his brother Paddy into politics. He was elected to Strabane Rural District Council in 1947, and to Tyrone County Council in 1950....

, the independent runner-up in 1958, who by 1962 had successfully gained the Nationalist Party

Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)

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 nomination.

In 1964 when the Chairman of the Nationalist Party, Joseph Stewart

Joseph Francis Stewart

Joseph Francis Stewart, known as Joe Stewart , was an Irish nationalist politician.After growing up in Dungannon, where he studied at the Christian Brothers' School, Stewart worked as a wine merchant and became active in the Irish Parliamentry Party...

 died, Blevins contested the by-election in Stewart's former East Tyrone

East Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

East Tyrone was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.-Boundaries:East Tyrone was a county constituency comprising the eastern part of County Tyrone. It was created in 1929, when the House of Commons Act 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland...

 constituency, again as an Ulster Unionist. Blevins was again runner up, this time to Austin Currie

Austin Currie

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.

In 1968 when Ulster Unionist and Mid Ulster

Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Ulster is a Parliamentary Constituency in the British House of Commons.-Boundaries:The constituency was created in 1950 when the old two-seat constituency of Fermanagh and Tyrone was abolished as part of the final move to single member seats...

 MP George Forrest

George Forrest (politician)

George Forrest was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland who served as MP for Mid Ulster from 1956 until his death...

died, Blevins sought UUP nomination to fight the by-election, however lost out to Forrest's widow, Anna.