The Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) was a small loyalist political party in Northern Ireland. It was established in June 1981 as the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA),to replace the New Ulster Political Research Group. The UDP name had previously been used in the 1930s by an unrelated party,which on one occasion contested Belfast Central.
The Third Way is a think tank and former political party in the United Kingdom,founded on the 17 March 1990. Third Way has supported a system of federalism for the UK with the possibility of a future break-up,an isolationist foreign policy,environmentalism,the wide use of Swiss-style citizens' initiatives and distributism.
Patrick Antony Harrington is a far-right British political activist and writer of Irish Catholic family origins,who has published pamphlets by the Social Credit advocate and former editor of the Liverpool Newsletter,Anthony Cooney,about prominent Catholic writers such as G.K. Chesterton,J.R.R. Tolkien and Hilaire Belloc. He is currently general secretary of Solidarity –The Union for British Workers and a director of the Third Way,a think tank.
James Hugh Allister is a British Unionist politician and barrister in Northern Ireland. He founded the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) political party in 2007,leading the party since its formation. Allister has served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for North Antrim since 2011,and is the TUV’s only representative in the Assembly.
The Ulster Third Way was the Northern Ireland branch of the Third Way and was organised by David Kerr,who had previously campaigned as an 'independent Unionist' as well as for the British National Front. It followed an Ulster nationalist ideology.
The 1921 Northern Ireland general election was held on Tuesday,24 May 1921. It was the first election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Ulster Unionist Party members won a two-thirds majority of votes cast and more than three-quarters of the seats in the assembly. Sinn Féin in particular was shocked at the scale of the Unionist victory,having spent considerable resources on the campaign,and had expected to win between 1/3 and 1/2 of the seats. Sinn Féin and Nationalist Party candidates were successful in the joint County Tyrone/Fermanagh constituency with 54.71 percent of the vote. The election was conducted using the single transferable vote system.
Rainbow George Weiss was a British political figure,who was best known as a serial fringe political party candidate in various elections in the UK.
Northern Ireland was a constituency of the European Parliament from 1979 until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020. It elected three MEPs using the single transferable vote,making it the only constituency in the United Kingdom which did not use first-past-the-post or party-list proportional representation.
Make Politicians History was a minor United Kingdom political party that advocated the abolition of Parliament in favour of devolution to city-states and decision-making by referendum. Its leader was Ronnie Carroll. Since the 1980s,the group stood under various descriptions,including Vote For Yourself,www.xat.org and Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket.
Ulster nationalism is a minor school of thought in the politics of Northern Ireland that seeks the independence of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom without joining the Republic of Ireland,thereby becoming an independent sovereign state separate from both.
The Ulster Independence Movement was an Ulster nationalist political party founded on 17 November 1988. The group emerged from the Ulster Clubs,after a series of 15 public meetings across Northern Ireland. Led by Hugh Ross,a Presbyterian minister from Dungannon,County Tyrone,the UIC sought to end what it saw as the tyranny of rule from London and instead set up an independent Northern Ireland.
William Frederick McCoy was an Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for South Tyrone who went on to become an early supporter of Ulster nationalism.
George Seawright was a Scottish-born unionist politician in Northern Ireland and loyalist paramilitary in the Ulster Volunteer Force. He was assassinated by the Irish People's Liberation Organisation in 1987.
Michael McGimpsey is a former Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast South from 1998 to 2016.
The Belfast South by-election was held on 4 March 1982 following the death of Robert Bradford,Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Member of Parliament for Belfast South.
Paul Butler is a republican politician in Northern Ireland and a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He served as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Lagan Valley from 2007 to 2011.
The Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. In common with all other Northern Irish unionist parties,the TUV's political programme has as its sine qua non the preservation of Northern Ireland's place within the United Kingdom. A founding precept of the party is that "nothing which is morally wrong can be politically right".
A by-election for the UK House of Commons constituency of Mid Ulster in Northern Ireland was held on 7 March 2013. The election was triggered by the resignation of Martin McGuinness,who had been elected to the seat in 1997 as the Sinn Féin candidate. The election was won by Francie Molloy,also of Sinn Féin.
The 2015 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 7 May 2015 and all 18 seats were contested. 1,236,765 people were eligible to vote,up 67,581 from the 2010 general election. 58.45% of eligible voters turned out,an increase of half a percentage point from the last general election. This election saw the return of Ulster Unionists to the House of Commons,after they targeted 4 seats but secured 2.
The Labour Party in Northern Ireland is the UK Labour Party's regional constituency organisation that operates in Northern Ireland. The Labour Party is not a registered political party in Northern Ireland and does not currently contest elections.
