He lost his seat in the lower house election on 25 June 2000.
Add to it that we didn't do well in House elections last year.
The sixth district was thus actually created and used for the 1914 House election.
Thus the trend of the last several decades in House elections seems likely to continue.
He was re-elected in the 2008 House election with 60% of the vote.
The latest date possible for the upper house election would then be August 13th.
Senators are appointed by the governor following each House election.
Both parties face upper house parliamentary elections in two months.
The party made impressive gains in lower house elections last November.
In 1936, there were 137 House elections decided by 55 percent or less, or almost a third of the total.