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The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. [5] ... In March 2005, the Orange Order voted to end its official links with the UUP.
Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, existed from 1974 and 1981; United Ulster Unionist Party, existed from 1975 and 1982, splinted from the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party due to a disagreement over power-sharing; Ulster Popular Unionist Party, existed from 1980 to 1995; UK Unionist Party, existed 1995 to 2008
The party emerged following splits in the Ulster Unionist Party in 1973 and 1974 over the British government's white paper Northern Ireland Constitutional Proposals, the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, and the Sunningdale Agreement. Faulkner had led the majority of the UUP into a power-sharing coalition but in January 1974 he was ...
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Northern Ireland Conservatives (section of the United Kingdom's Conservative party) Parties in British Overseas Territories. Gibraltar Social Democrats [38] Minor parties. All for Unity; Britain First [39] British ...
A surprise Westminster election at the end of February was a triumph for the United Ulster Unionist Coalition, in which the bulk of his old party stood as Official Unionists with William Craig's Ulster Vanguard and Paisley's new Democratic Unionists. Faulkner's pro-Assembly grouping was left with just 13% of the unionist vote.
The Ulster Unionists were divided over a variety of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Terence O'Neill and this division spilled over into the election with official Ulster Unionist candidates standing either in support of or opposition to O'Neill and a number of Unofficial Unionists, who were independent pro O'Neill candidates standing ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 December 2024. Political party in Northern Ireland This article is about the political party in Northern Ireland. For other uses, see Democratic Unionist Party (disambiguation). Democratic Unionist Party Abbreviation DUP Leader Gavin Robinson Chairman The Lord Morrow Lords Leader The Lord Dodds of ...
Ulster Unionist Party MP for Belfast West, and former member of the Ulster Imperial Guards: Belfast: Northern Ireland: 22 May 1922 Irish Republican Army. [1] [2] Henry Wilson [2] Ulster Unionist Party MP for North Down, and former British Army Field Marshall. London England: 22 June 1922 Robert Curtis [3] British Army soldier Belfast: Northern ...