sentences:  Elwood achieved 58% of the vote, but de Cleene was elected as a councillor and served until 1976, when he moved away from Palmerston North.De Cleene first stood for Parliament in the 1969 general election in the Pahiatua electorate against the Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake.The political novice had no chance to unseat the incumbent in the election, was aware of it and was not interested in entering Parliament at that point anyway