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Was there a precedent when Irish Republicans ran (and successfully elected) imprisoned candidates for Westminster during the 1980s or was this a completely new innovation? Could Bobby Sands actually have been seated had he survived his imprisonment?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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