Jacob Haugaard, a Danish comedian, ran for parliament every national election from 1979 up until 1994 – as a joke, of course. But in 1994, he won.
What happened in 1994 to get him elected? The Wikipedia article doesn’t say, just that he got 23,253 “personal” votes. At the time he had put out a book for first-time voters, so that probably had something to do with it.
In any case, he took his role seriously. It was just as well that he did, because he was elected to a hung parliament and sometimes had the deciding vote! Haugaard even managed to fulfil some of his campaign pledges: two of the four listed above. I’ll let you work out which ones.
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