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Candidate notability
The perpetual question (especially in candidate-centered elections, like in the US) is under what conditions a candidate meets WP:NPOL. The community consensus is that candidates can be discussed in a page about the election in question and losing candidates are generally deleted.
In practice many pages about candidates are created. Those pages can receive lots of page views and the community does keep certain candidates on a regular basis (see India Walton and Teresa Greenfield). Deletion review of political candidates can be quite contentious as the discussion may include supporters of the subject, especially as the date of the election draws closer.
Here is my attempt at trying to develop a consensus for when a candidate is notable.