• The Protestant Unionist Party (PUP) was a unionist political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1966 to 1971. It was the forerunner of the Democratic...
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  • The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a unionist, loyalist, British nationalist and national conservative political party in Northern Ireland. It was...
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  • Association (or Labour Unionist Party) Protestant Unionist Party, former political party formed by Ian Paisley in 1966 out of the Ulster Protestant Action (UPA)...
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  • The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging...
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  • Conservative between 2002 and 2004 3 Originally elected for the Protestant Unionist Party in 1970. 4 Expelled from the DUP in 2010 and sat briefly as an...
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  • and re-formed as the Protestant Unionist Party in 1966. The group was established at a special meeting at the Ulster Unionist Party's (UUP) offices in Glengall...
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  • Unionist Party Ulster Progressive Unionist Association Ulster Protestant League Ulster Resistance Ulster Unionist Labour Association Unionist Party of...
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  • The UK Unionist Party (UKUP) was a small unionist political party in Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2008 that opposed the Good Friday Agreement. It was...
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    The Unionist Party was the main centre-right political party in Scotland between 1912 and 1965. Independent of, although associated with, the Conservative...
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    The Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party (VUPP), informally known as Ulster Vanguard, was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between...
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    Social Democratic and Labour Party which would take over the Nationalist mantle. Ian Paisley's Protestant Unionist Party that was broadly opposed to O'Neill's...
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    Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), also known as the Irish Unionist Party, Irish Unionists or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded...
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  • Popular Unionist Party (UPUP) was a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1980 by James Kilfedder, independent Unionist Member...
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  • the party into the Ulster Unionists in February 1978. In 1971 Paisley merged the Protestant Unionist Party into the new Democratic Unionist Party. Fitt...
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  • The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington...
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    The Conservative–DUP agreement between the Conservative Party and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) followed the 2017 general election which resulted...
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    Protestant Unionist Party candidate in the 1970 general election after narrowly defeating sitting member Henry Clark. The following year that party changed...
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  • Ulster Unionist Labour Association (UULA) was an association of trade unionists founded by Edward Carson in June 1918, aligned with the Ulster Unionists in...
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    (1942–1947) Protestant Unionist Party (1966–1971) Democratic Unionist Party (1971–present) Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party (1973–1978) Unionist Party of Northern...
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    Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. In common with all other Northern Irish unionist parties, the TUV's...
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    The United Ulster Unionist Party (UUUP) was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1975 and 1984. It emerged from a division...
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  • United Kingdom. The party applied to join the United Ulster Unionist Council (UUUC) but was rebuffed, with the mainstream unionist parties wary of being linked...
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  • 4 The Protestant Unionist Party merged into the Democratic Unionist Party in 1970. 5 Sitting MP Gerry Fitt had left the Republican Labour Party for the...
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  • Ulster Unionists up to and including the 1970 election; the autonomous Unionist Party in Scotland until 1964; and the Liberal National Party (and joint...
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    reduced the voting age from 21 to 18. The Ulster Unionists lost seats to the Protestant Unionist Party led by Ian Paisley, moderator of the Free Presbyterian...
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  • to the Northern Ireland Parliament, Paisley, the leader of the Protestant Unionist Party, won the Bannside seat formerly held by Prime Minister Terence...
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    Ian Paisley (category Democratic Unionist Party life peers)
    loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008...
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  • resulted in the loss of a seat from the Ulster Unionist Party to the much smaller Protestant Unionist Party. In the 1969 General Election the previous MP...
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  • Catholic unionist has become controversial since the start of the 1970-1998 Troubles, due to the strong association of Ulster Unionism with Protestantism. The...
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  • The United Unionist Coalition (UUC), formerly known as the United Unionist Assembly Party, was a minor unionist political formation in Northern Ireland...
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