A recent example of an election being held void was when the 1997 election of Member of Parliament for Winchester, Mark Oaten, (Liberal Democrat) was contested by the Conservative Party candidate Gerry Malone.
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A petition has also been lodged against the result in the Waddon ward in the London Borough of Croydon at the local elections held on 6 May 2010.
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In 1982, Seamus Mallon was disqualified from taking his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly as he was a member of Seanad Éireann, the upper chamber of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, at the time of his election.
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In 1762 Meynell was elected as one of the two members of parliament for Lichfield, after filing an election petition challenging the election of John Levett of Wychnor, Staffordshire.
Further damage was done to his reputation by the Galway election petition case of 1872, where William Le Poer Trench, the unsuccessful candidate, petitioned to unseat the winner, John Philip Nolan, on the grounds of intimidation and undue pressure from the Catholic clergy.