Scott Angelle serves in an elected post on the state's utility regulatory board.

Under party rules, the Ulster Unionists do not allow members to hold more than one elected post without a special dispensation.

Coming in third with 20 percent on Saturday was Republican Scott Angelle, who serves in an elected post on the state's utility regulatory board.

Bongbong Marcos won a Senate position in 2010, the first time since his father's demise that a family member had won a nationally elected post.

Mike Whitby (59), who is on Thursday's ballot paper for the directly elected post, was held by police at his home in north Wales.

From 1994 until 1996, she served as a typist for Mary Mxadana, private secretary to Nelson Mandela, the newly elected post-apartheid President of South Africa.