The husband of new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch once stood for election in Northern Ireland – winning just 132 votes.
Hamish Badenoch is a former NI Conservatives candidate.
He stood for the party in the 2015 General Election in the Foyle constituency, finishing last with just 0.4% of the vote.
Ms Badenoch was elected Tory leader on Saturday.
The former Business Secretary defeated rival Robert Jenrick by 53,806 votes to 41,388.
She becomes the first black woman elected to lead a major British political party, and the fourth woman to lead the Conservative Party after Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May and Liz Truss.
In a speech following her victory, Ms Badenoch acknowledged that her party’s task was “tough but simple”, saying the Tories had to hold the Government to account and develop a “clear plan” for government.
She also paid tribute to her husband.
Addressing him directly, she said: “I couldn’t have done this without you, thank you for being with me every step of the way.”
Mr Badenoch, who works for Deutsche Bank, served as a Conservative councillor from 2014 to 2018 on Merton Borough Council in London.
Born into an upper middle-class Scottish-Irish family, Mr Badenoch studied at Cambridge.
According to The Times, Kemi and Hamish met in 2009 at the Dulwich and West Norwood Conservative Club during a campaign.
Speaking to The Times, Kemi Badenoch said: “It wasn’t love at first sight”.
“When I had tough times, he was always there, so we became friends,” she said.
The couple married in 2012.
She added: “We actually share a lot: we both grew up in big, close families. So our values are the same.”
The Badenochs are parents to three children – two daughters and a son.