Possible Clues:

• One could use PR venture to vilify, partly spinning
• One putting cross into box from left or right wing, perhaps?
• Suffragette's intended role when toe prodded into the old queen
• Ballot marker
• He makes one cross at times
• Constituency member
• Clergyman about to back one of the selectors
• Person behind a curtain, maybe
• Person often courted
• Today you can be awkward — revolt, ejecting head of legislature