Exceptions have been China not having a judge on the court from 1967 to 1985, during which time it did not put forward a candidate, and British judge Sir Christopher Greenwood being withdrawn as a candidate for election for a second nine-year term on the bench in 2017, leaving no judges from the United Kingdom on the court.[14] Greenwood had been supported by the UN Security Council but failed to get a majority in the UN General Assembly.[14] Indian judge Dalveer Bhandari instead took the seat.[14]