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One of the Nationalist Party's last electoral contests was the 1973 election for the Assembly created as part of the Sunningdale Agreement. The lack of success in that election meant that the inevitable outcome was obvious, although a handful of councillors were elected to Omagh District Council and Derry City Council in 1973 and 1977 .
The Assembly's suspension from October 2002 to May 2007 occurred when unionist parties withdrew from the Northern Ireland Executive after Sinn Féin's offices at Stormont were raided by police, who were investigating allegations of intelligence gathering on behalf of the IRA by members of the party's support staff. The Assembly, already ...
The new nationalist party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, withdrew from Stormont in July 1971 over the refusal of an inquiry into Royal Ulster Constabulary actions in Derry. Stormont was abolished and Direct Rule from Westminster was introduced in March 1972, just six weeks after Bloody Sunday , when the Unionist government refused to ...
She was speaking after a historic election result saw her party become the first nationalist or republican party to top the poll at Stormont. (PA Graphics) Sinn Fein finished with 27 seats, ahead ...
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and other unionist parties argued the vote created a democratic deficit as the concerns of unionists, who are in the minority at Stormont, could be ignored.
The party leader made her comments as she launched Alliance’s manifesto for the General Election. Alliance will no longer tolerate Stormont’s ‘toxic’ veto system, says Long Skip to main ...
Nationalist Party 1945–1958: Mourne: Oliver Napier: 12y: Alliance Party 1972–1984: Belfast East: Thomas Joseph Campbell: 11y: Nationalist Party 1934–1945: Belfast Central: Sir Edward Carson: 11y: Ulster Unionist Party 1910–1921: Dublin University, Belfast Duncairn: John Alderdice: 11y: Alliance Party 1987–1998: Belfast East: David ...
20 June – Austin Currie, Nationalist Party MP at Stormont, with others, begins a protest about discrimination in housing allocation by 'squatting' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone. [1] 21 June – The annual conference of the Nationalist Party unanimously approves the protest action by Austin Currie in Caledon. [1]