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In the February 1974 general election, the party participated in the United Ulster Unionist Council (UUUC) with Vanguard and the Democratic Unionist Party, successor to the Protestant Unionist Party. The result was that the UUUC won 11 out of 12 parliamentary seats in Northern Ireland on a fiercely anti-Sunningdale platform, although they ...
Although Beattie failed to win Mid Ulster, he was declared elected after the winning candidate was found to be ineligible, but was then in turn disqualified as ineligible. A new by-election was held, which the Ulster Unionist Party did not contest.
An election for the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) was held on 14 September 2024 at an extraordinary meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council following the resignation of incumbent leader Doug Beattie on 19 August 2024.
An Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) councillor who was at the centre of a selection row over an Assembly seat has quit the party. ... Nesbitt had previously won a contest in 2012 to become leader, but ...
The alliance was launched in 2009. [3] Conservatives and Unionists candidates were first selected for the 2009 European Parliament election. [4] The first candidate to stand for election using this description was Ulster Unionist Jim Nicholson, [5] who polled 82,893 votes, 17.0% of the total, and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
These are the results of the 2001 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland.The election was held on 7 June 2001 and all 18 seats in Northern Ireland were contested. 1,191,009 people were eligible to vote, up 13,040 from the 1997 general election. 68.63% of eligible voters turned out, up 1.2 percentage points from the last general election.
5 Left the party to become an Independent Unionist before forming the Ulster Popular Unionist Party. 6 Resigned from the party at the 1945 general election in protest at being subject to a reselection due to the retirement of Viscount Castlereagh , the other Ulster Unionist MP for the two member Down constituency and held his seat as an ...
An election for the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) was held on 27 May 2021 at a meeting of the Ulster Unionist Party council. The election was triggered following the resignation of incumbent leader Steve Aiken , who was elected in 2019 . [ 1 ]