sentences:  McLaren first stood for election to the House of Commons at the 1885 general election, when he stood as an "independent liberal" candidate for the Inverness district of Burghs, in Scotland.He had been nominated by the Free Church Constitutional Party, and polled strongly against the official Liberal Party candidate, taking 47.5% of the votes.At the 1886 general election he was elected in Crewe, where the sitting Liberal MP George Latham had not sought re-election.