Refimprove date February 2008 The ProtestantUnionistParty PUP ref Not to be confused with the Progressive UnionistParty . ref was a Unionists Ireland unionist political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1966 to 1971. It was set up by Ian Paisley , and was the forerunner of the modern Democratic UnionistParty DUP and emerged from the Ulster Protestant Action UPA movement. The UPA had two councillors elected, and in 1967 both were re elected as PUP candidates. They stood six candidates against the more moderate Ulster UnionistParty members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland Stormont parliament in the Northern Ireland general election, 1969 1969 election and polled over 20,000 votes. When Terence O Neill the then Northern Irish Prime Minister stood down from Stormont in 1970 along with one of his colleagues, the PUP nominated candidates for the two vacant seats Ian Paisley and William Beattie politician William Beattie , PUP leader and deputy respectively . Both were elected to Stormont and in that year s United Kingdom general election, 1970 general election , Paisley was elected to represent North Antrim constituency Antrim North in Westminster. The PUP campaigned for the retention of the Act of Union, 1800 Union , preferential treatment for Protestant s in employment, and for total freedom for Orange Institution Orange parades. The PUP was wound up in 1971 and re emerged as the DUP in October of that year. Later in the United Kingdom general election, 1987 1987 general election , George Seawright , a Scottish born former DUP candidate who was later assassinated by the Irish People s Liberation Organisation IPLO , defied an official pact between the Unionist parties and revived the ProtestantUnionist label for his candidature. References Reflist DUP Defunct political parties in Northern Ireland Category Defunct political parties in Northern Ireland Category ... disestablished in 1971 Category Christian political parties in the United Kingdom Category Protestant ... more details
party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ProtestantUnionistParty formed by Ian Paisley in 1966 out of the Ulster Protestant Action UPA movement. It was the forerunner of the Democratic UnionistParty and disbanded in 1971 with the DUP s formation Ulster UnionistParty UUP The smaller and more ...The name UnionistParty could refer to United Kingdom In the United Kingdom the term unionist may indicate ... Party UK Conservative and UnionistParty . In Northern Ireland see Unionism in Ireland and Ulster loyalism , active parties include Democratic UnionistParty DUP The larger of the two main unionist ... Ireland between 1921 and 1972 as the sole Unionistparty. Ulster Conservatives and Unionists New Force ... Ireland , the Northern Ireland arm of the Conservative Party Progressive UnionistParty PUP , minor loyalist party formed in 1979 Ulster Unionist Labour Association or Labour UnionistParty Defunct parties include Independent Unionist Association or Independent UnionistParty existed from 1937 to late ... of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party Ulster Vanguard , existed from 1973 and 1978 far right partyUnionistParty of Northern Ireland , existed from 1974 and 1981 United Ulster UnionistParty , existed from 1975 and 1982, splinted from the Vanguard Progressive UnionistParty due to a disagreement over power sharing Ulster Popular UnionistParty , existed from 1980 to 1995 led by James Kilfedder UK UnionistParty , existed 1995 to 2008 Northern Ireland UnionistParty , existed 1999 to 2008 In Scotland see Unionism in Scotland Scottish Conservative Party Scottish Conservative and UnionistParty , full name of what is usually referred to as the Scottish Conservative Party Scottish UnionistParty 1986 , Scottish minor party of traditionalist unionists ... politics until the late 1950s India under British rule UnionistParty Punjab a major political party ... Nation Party Parties flagcountry Canada UnionistParty Canada of 1917 1920 Unionest Party flagcountry ... more details
The Protestant Nationalist Party was a political organisation in Ulster . The organisation emerged around 1890, and was organised by McAuley Brown . Based in the Liberal Party UK Liberal Party , it represented those Protestants principally Presbyterian s who supported Irish nationalism but believed that it was necessary to present Protestant candidates for election in those Protestant majority areas of the province. It also supported the Ulster Tenant Right Association and Irish Tenant League in their campaigns to maintain and write into law the local custom by which tenants were permitted to sell their tenancies to the highest bidder, and landlords could not terminate tenancies except by so bidding. ref name harbinson John F. Harbinson, The Ulster UnionistParty, 1882 1973 , pp.210&ndash 211 ref Several supporters were elected at the 1892 UK general election , including three Presbyterian ministers Kinnear, Isaac Nelson and Richard Smyth . Other MPs included Patrick McGilligan MP Patrick McGilligan . ref name harbinson The movement disappeared later in the 1890s, most of its members becoming Russellite Unionist Russellites who, despite broadly supporting unionism, shared the party s support for tenants rights. ref name harbinson References references Category Defunct political parties in Ireland Category Liberal Party UK ... more details
The Democratic UnionistParty may refer to Arabic Democratic UnionistParty Syrian political party. Democratic UnionistParty Northern Irish political party. Independent Democratic UnionistParty briefly existing party in Northern Ireland, formed by two councillors on North Down Borough Council part of the Northern Ireland Forum . Democratic Union Party Bukovina Romanian political party. Democratic Union Party Cuba Cuban political party. Democratic Union Party Egypt Egyptian political party. Democratic Union Party Peruvian political party. Democratic Union Russia Russian political party. Democratic UnionistParty Sudan Sudanese political party. Social Democratic UnionistParty Mauritanian political party. disambig Category Political party disambiguation pages ... more details
about historical Tory party modern pro Ulster Unionistparty Scottish UnionistParty 1986 Infobox political party country Scotland party name UnionistParty colorcode blue party logo leader chairman foundation ... Party colours headquarters website merged Scottish Conservative Party The UnionistParty , referred to as the Scottish UnionistParty outside of Scotland itself, was the main centre right political party in Scotland between 1912 and 1965. Use of the terms Unionists Scotland Unionist and Tory ... history in alliance with a small number of Liberal UnionistParty Liberal Unionist and National Liberal ... UnionistParty Ulster Unionists did until 1973. At Westminster the differences between the Scottish Unionist and the English party could appear blurred or non existent to the external casual observer ... and the Progressives. Origins The origins of the Scottish UnionistParty lie in the 1886 split of the British Liberal Party UK Liberal Party with the emergence of the Liberal UnionistParty Liberal ... Party , the Scottish UnionistParty emerged as effectively the Conservative Party in Scotland, although ... of the Scottish UnionistParty s belief system. While it was the prospect of Irish Home Rule that set ... UnionistParty s belief system was demonstrated when members of the party left to establish the Scottish ... on a Parliamentary level with the Conservative and UnionistParty in England and Wales, it was conscious ... s UnionistParty for refusing the post of Secretary of State for Scotland because he preferred to remain ... in Scotland, as well as the post 1965 Scottish Conservative and UnionistParty , the 1912 1965 Scottish UnionistParty s electoral record stands out as a success. Citation needed date February 2007 With the Liberal Party divided and declining, the Scottish UnionistParty managed to attract former .... The creation of the National Liberal Party UK, 1931 National Liberals also assisted the Unionist vote ... election , a majority of Labour MPs was returned again, but the Scottish UnionistParty closed the gap ... more details
The Scottish UnionistParty is a name used to refer to two organisations, one now subsumed into the Conservative Party UK UK Conservative Party , and the other being a recent creation in response to the Conservative Party s support of the Anglo Irish Agreement Scottish UnionistParty , known simply as the UnionistParty in Scotland itself, the dominant force in Scottish politics until the late 1950s see UnionistParty Scotland Scottish UnionistParty 1986 , a small political party in Scotland, from the mid 1980s to the present day See also Scottish Conservative and UnionistParty Unionism in Scotland Disambig ... more details
in Scotland UnionistParty, modern Category Protestant political parties Category Nationalism by country ...about the minor party established 1986 in opposition to the Anglo Irish Agreement the historical Tory party in Scotland UnionistParty Scotland ref improve date December 2011 Infobox political party country Scotland party name Scottish UnionistParty colorcode Scottish UnionistParty 1986 meta color party logo File Scottish UnionistParty logo.jpg 270px leader Jim Doughty chairman Jim Nixon foundation ... UnionistParty SUP is a minor Scottish political parties political party in Scotland . It is ideologically a Unionists Scotland Unionistparty, supporting the continuation of Scotland as a part of the United ... generated title ref Many traditional supporters of the Scottish Conservative and UnionistParty and others ... Conservative and UnionistParty Conservative and Unionist candidate since it was the constituency ... GBP 572 to GBP 365. ref cite web title Scottish UnionistParty statement of accounts ... data assets pdf file 0007 49057 Scottish UnionistParty Statement of Accounts 2007 29311 21784 ... against what it sees as Anti Protestantism Anti Protestant and Scottish independence Anti Unionist ... web url http www.scottishunionistparty.co.uk content view 6 6 title The Scottish UnionistParty ... www.scottishunionistparty.co.uk content view 13 8 title The Scottish UnionistParty Campaign Issues ... The SUP was formed in 1986 by a number of members disillusioned with the Conservative Party UK Conservative government s signing of the Anglo Irish Agreement . In its early years, the party found ... and the associated Protestant community. Electoral performance The SUP has contested a number of elections ... and Shotts UK Parliament constituency Airdrie and Shotts . The party managed to retain its deposit ... and Shotts, despite the presence of a Conservative and Unionist candidate, the SUP still managed to poll 4.5 of the vote. The party failed to win any seats in the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary ... more details
The Liverpool ProtestantParty LPP was a minor political party operating in the city of Liverpool in northwest England . Origins and Context The origins of the Liverpool ProtestantParty lie in the increasing dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party UK Conservative and UnionistParty felt by many ... in the Conservative Workingmen s Association. The Liverpool ProtestantParty believed the establishment ... of Guardians. The NPEF endorsed ProtestantParty candidates and any other candidates who were willing to add the word Protestant to their party name. This resulted in two ProtestantParty and two Protestant & Unionist candidates being elected with 25,787 votes between them. 1930 to 1945 The Local .... This led to the ProtestantParty contesting the City Council elections of November 1930. Only the party ... Kingdom wards the ProtestantParty took enough votes from the Conservatives to cause them to lose them ... vote has not totally died in Liverpool. The Democratic UnionistParty has looked into the possibility ... attempt to secure independent Protestant representation was made by John Kensit leader of the Protestant ... of public open space specifically for outdoor meetings. George Wise, a prominent local Protestant leader ... June he decided to pursue independent Protestant representation on the City Council. Support was centred ... and the congregation of the Protestant Reformers Church of which he was the Pastor. Traditionally the orange vote would go to the Conservative Party UK Conservatives but in 1903, the LPP was formed as a distinct party by George Wise. 1903 to 1919 Four seats were contested and three won, including ... Alderman Archibald Saldvidge was opposed to independent Protestant representation. 1920 1930 The support of the Conservative Party for the establishment of the Irish Free State renewed dissatisfaction ... Protestant Electoral Federation NPEF was formed at this time with four aims ol li The promotion ... Protestant succession to the throne as established by the Act of Settlement 1701 Current effects ... more details
For political parties with similar names Democratic UnionistParty disambiguation The Social Democratic UnionistParty Parti unioniste d mocratique et socialiste is a political party in Mauritania . The party won in the 19 November and 3 December 2006 Mauritanian parliamentary election, 2006 elections 1 out of 95 seats. Mauritanian political parties Category Political parties in Mauritania Category Social democratic parties Mauritania party stub ... more details
Infobox political party name Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party colorcode orange logo File Vanguard ... 1978 merger split Ulster UnionistParty merged Ulster UnionistParty headquarters newspaper student ... Unionist Progressive Party VUPP , informally known as Ulster Vanguard , was a Unionism in Ireland unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1978. It was closely ... in the Vanguard or Ulster Vanguard wing of the Ulster UnionistParty UUP who were opposed to the policies of the party s leader and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland , Brian Faulkner . The Ulster ... UnionistParty DUP as the loyalist coalition while the latter three were fought as part ... elections either for Vanguard or for their splinter party, the United Ulster UnionistParty . This includes ... Ulster UnionistParty . On 8 September 1975, Craig s proposals were decisively rejected at a meeting ... in February 1978 and subsequently merged the remainder of Vanguard back into the Ulster UnionistParty ... this too seems to have quickly faded away. The Democratic UnionistParty subsequently became the main Unionistparty offering a more right wing alternative position to the Ulster Unionists. In the 1982 ... people davidburnside.htm Burnside profile Ulster UnionistParty ref while those elected for VUPP ... in the Ulster Unionists broke away and founded a separate Vanguard Party, with William Craig as the leader. Ideology Vanguard is usually considered to have been a right wing party. In its earliest ... http books.google.co.uk books?id qps14mSlghcC&pg PA263&lpg PA263&dq vanguard unionist party&source ... http books.google.co.uk books?id 3q3wYR8gWusC&pg PA89&lpg PA89&dq vanguard unionist ... Parties in settler conflicts by Thomas G. Mitchell, p89 Google Books ref with the Stormont unionist ... manifesto, they called for the more mainstream Unionist option of either devolved government with full ... occasions when it did not follow the same course as other right wing or unionist parties. For example ... more details
Infobox political party name UnionistParty of Northern Ireland logo leader Brian Faulkner 1974 1976 ... 1974 dissolved Autumn 1981 split Ulster UnionistParty headquarters newspaper student wing youth ... April 2008 The UnionistParty of Northern Ireland was a political party founded by Brian Faulkner in September 1974. Formation The party emerged following splits in the Ulster UnionistParty in 1973 ... stood as Pro Assembly Unionists against a coalition of the Ulster UnionistParty , the Vanguard Progressive UnionistParty and the Democratic UnionistParty . They failed to win a single seat at Westminster .... However they remained active and in September constituted themselves as the UnionistParty ... model was no longer a viable option. The party fought the Northern Ireland local elections, 1981 1981 local elections in an electoral pact with the Ulster Popular UnionistParty but only won 2 seats. As a result ... UnionistParty Of Northern Ireland Category Defunct political parties in Northern Ireland Category ... Sunningdale faction of the party won control. In the United Kingdom general election, February ... history The party did not prosper. In the United Kingdom general election, October 1974 October ... elected for the UUP in 1973 chose to join the new party. The 1975 elections to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention were another blow to the party. Of 13 UPNI candidates elected as UUP members in 1973, only 5 succeeded in holding their seats, compared to 47 seats won by other Unionist candidates ... finished 64 votes ahead of the UUP and 900 ahead of the Alliance party with a UPNI candidate taking 2000 votes. In 1976 Faulkner had stepped down as leader of the party and withdrew from active politics and was succeeded by Anne Dickson , the first woman to lead a political party in Northern Ireland. However the party continued to make little ground. In 1981 the party admitted the weakness of its ..., joined the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Alliance Party and was re elected as an Alliance ... more details
Infobox political party name United Ulster UnionistParty colorcode orange logo leader Ernest Baird leader1 ... Unionist Progressive Party headquarters newspaper student wing youth wing ideology Ulster loyalism ... UnionistParty was a Unionists Ireland unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1975 and 1984. It emerged from a division in the Vanguard Progressive UnionistParty in the late ... Ulster UnionistParty leader Reg Empey . They left Vanguard and formed the United Ulster Unionist Movement . Initially Baird denied that this was a party since the original aim was to create a single Unionistparty. When this aim proved unattainable the UUUM relaunched as the United Ulster UnionistParty led by Baird with Empey as Deputy Leader. ref W.D. Flackes & Sydnet Elliott, Northern Ireland ..., given that the UUUP was a breakaway from Vanguard, itself a breakaway from the Ulster UnionistParty and there were many other Unionist parties in existence. The UUUP did not prosper long. In the United ... came in May 1984 when Baird dissolved the party and left it to individual members to choose which Unionistparty to join in its wake. References Reflist Defunct political parties in Northern Ireland ... and Labour Party . Many in Vanguard found this anathema, including the party s deputy leader Ernest ... with other unionist parties to not divide the unionist vote where a nationalist might ... the unionist vote but polling poorly. ref http www.ark.ac.uk elections cfst.htm Fermanagh and South ..., 1977 1977 had defected to other Unionist parties 2 to UUP, 1 to DUP and 1 to the Ulster Popular UnionistParty . The party had a miserable showing in the 1981 elections with its overall vote share declining ... and even then one of these was purely due to a quirk of the electoral system, as the party only polled ... from the other two Unionist parties only putting up one candidate each and benefitted ... constituency. ref name Mid The party soon folded. Dunlop remained as MP for Mid Ulster until the United ... more details
For political parties with similar names Democratic UnionistParty disambiguation Infobox political party country Syria colorcode green party name Arabic Democratic UnionistParty br party logo party wikicolourid green ideology Arab nationalism , br Syrian nationalism position Right wing colours Green national National Progressive Front Syria National Progressive Front seats1 title People s Council of Syria People s Council seats1 Infobox political party seats 1 250 hex green headquarters Damascus , Syria The Arabic Democratic UnionistParty lang ar Hizb Al Ittihad Al Arabi Al Dimuqrati is a nationalist political party in Syria . It is part of the National Progressive Front Syria National Progressive Front of legally licenced parties which support the socialist and Arab nationalist orientation of the government and accept the leadership of the Ba ath Party . In the 22 April 2007 People s Council of Syria Syrian parliamentary election, 2007 election the party was awarded 1 out of 250 seats in the parliament. Syrian political parties syria party stub Category Political parties in Syria ru ... more details
. History See also Ulster Protestant Action ProtestantUnionistParty The party was established in 1971 by Ian Paisley and Desmond Boal and other members of the ProtestantUnionistParty . Since its ... Category Democratic UnionistParty Category Protestant political parties Category Christian political ... Democratic UnionistParty logo Image Duporguklogo col .png 270px leader Peter Robinson politician ... Democratic UnionistParty meta color seats1 title House of Commons of the United Kingdom Overall ... political party seats 175 582 hex D46A4C The Democratic UnionistParty DUP is the larger of the two main Unionism Ireland unionist political party political parties in Northern Ireland . Founded ... political party. ref cite book last Freston first Paul title Protestant Political Parties A Global Survey ... party arguably stemmed from insecurities of the Protestant working class. ref Beyond the Sectarian Divide the Social Bases and Political Consequences of Nationalist and UnionistParty Competition ... long been the principal rival to the other major Unionists Ireland unionistparty, the Ulster UnionistParty known for a time in the 1970s and 1980s as the Official UnionistParty OUP to distinguish ... its position as the largest unionistparty, winning nine seats, making it the fourth largest party in terms ... UnionistParty. The opposition was based on a number of reasons, including The early release of paramilitary ... docs dup dup050204text.htm title CAIN Issues Politics Democratic UnionistParty DUP 2004 Devolution ... List of Democratic UnionistParty MPs List of Northern Ireland Members of the House of Lords Footnotes Reflist colwidth 30em External links http www.dup.org.uk Democratic UnionistParty official website ... Democrataidd da Democratic UnionistParty de Democratic UnionistParty es Partido Unionista Democr tico ... partij ja no Democratic UnionistParty nn Democratic UnionistParty pl Demokratyczna Partia ... UnionistParty fi Demokraattinen unionistipuolue sv Democratic UnionistParty tr Demokratik ... more details
The Unionist Center Party in Spanish language Spanish Partido Centro Unionista , PCU was a Panama nian small regionalist conservative political party . The party was active in Los Santos Province in the 1920s and 1940s. ref Almanaque paname o. Editorial Balboa, 1940. Pp. 274. ref The PA was represented in the Panamian Parliament from 1932 to 1936. ref Political Handbook of the world, 1936. New York, 1936. Pp. 146. ref Jos Evaristo Mora P. was the founder and leader of the PCU. References Reflist Category Political parties in Panama ... more details
Politics of Northern Ireland The Ulster Unionist Coalition Party UUCP was a minor Unionists Ireland unionist political formation in Northern Ireland . It is not to be confused with the similarly named United Unionist Coalition UUC . Following a split in the Democratic UnionistParty DUP majority bloc in Ballymena borough Ballymena in 2007, six councillors who objected to the DUP s agreement to share power in the Northern Ireland Executive with Sinn F in left the DUP and redesignated themselves as the Ulster Unionist Coalition Party . ref http www.nuzhound.com articles Sunday Times arts2007 jun3 Ballymena power sharing LClarke Sunday Times.php Sunday Times report of Ballymena split ref In May 2009, four of the group left to join Jim Allister s Traditional Unionist Voice TUV . ref http www.newsletter.co.uk news local uucp members jump ship 1 1884555 News Letter report of UUCP defections to TUV ref This left the UUCP with just two councillors. It lost one of those seats on the imprisonment in June 2010 of councillor William Wilkinson, head of research for the pressure group Families Acting for Innocent Relatives , following his conviction for rape. ref http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi northern ireland 10465865.stm BBC report of councillor s sentence ref The remaining UUCP councillor, Davy Tweed , also joined TUV and was re elected in 2011 to Ballymena Borough Council. The UUCP now has no elected representative and may be defunct. References Reflist British political parties Political parties in Northern Ireland Category Political parties established in 2007 Category Political parties in Northern Ireland Category Ulster unionism ... more details
Image Vote union govt canada hun.jpg thumb uprigt Poster for Borden s Union government The UnionistParty ... to call themselves Liberal Unionist . This tactic split the Liberal Party those who did not join the UnionistParty ran as Laurier Liberals . The election resulted in a landslide election victory for Borden. Borden attempted to continue the UnionistParty after the war and when Arthur Meighen succeeded him in 1920, he renamed it the National Liberal and Conservative Party in the hope of making the coalition permanent. The Unionists had never been officially a single party, and therefore lacked the structure of an official party. Meighen hoped to change this. In the Canadian federal election, 1921 1921 general election , most of the Liberal Unionist MPs did not join this party, and ran ... 1917, Conservative Party of Canada historical Conservative Prime Minister of Canada Prime Minister Borden proposed the formation of a national unity government or coalition government to Liberal Party ... as a telegrapher. Robertson, however, was a Tory and not a member of any Labour Party of Canada Labour or socialist party. Borden then called an Canadian federal election, 1917 election for December 1917 on the issue of conscription see also Conscription Crisis of 1917 , running as head of the UnionistParty composed of Borden s Conservatives, independent MPs, and members of the Liberals who left ... again as Liberal Unionists or joined Meighen s renamed party. Prominent Liberal Unionists who stayed ... s government, the National Liberal and Conservative Party changed its name to the Liberal Conservative Party of Canada , although it was commonly known as the Conservative Party . During World War II ... war s Unionist government. Accordingly, they ran in the election under the name National Government Canada National Government party but did not repeat the success of the Unionistparty and failed to make a dent in King s governing majority. See also Conservative Party of Canada 1867 1942 ... more details
The UnionistParty of South Africa was a pre apartheid South African political party, which contested ... Republic Transvaal to form the UnionistParty of South Africa. Colony of Natal Natal had no political parties, before the Union, but some politicians from that province joined the new party. ref The Times ... included confirmation that the first group of 17 Natal MPs included 11 Independents, 4 UnionistParty members and 2 representatives of the SAP . South Africa 1982 , page 165. ref The party was a pro British conservative party. It favoured the maintenance of a pro British political culture in South ... general election, 1920 1920 general election both the South African Party and the UnionistParty lost ... Africa, the UnionistParty s base dwindled. The party was forced into first an alliance and then fusion with the South African Party, in a futile attempt to stop the National Party from coming to power ... UnionistParty of South Africa leader, from May 1910, was Leander Starr Jameson . He was created ... in South Africa SouthAfrica party stub af Unionisteparty nl UnionistParty Zuid Afrika no Unionist ... its merger into the South African Party Union of South Africa South African Party just before the South African general election, 1921 1921 South African general election . History In May 1910, the UnionistParty of the Cape of Good Hope Cape Colony merged with the Constitutional Party of the Orange ... that would force more unwanted coloured immigration to South Africa, mainly from India. The party ... Boer War . The Unionists, as the largest party in the House of Assembly not included in the government ... . However, after the formation of the National Party South Africa National Party in 1914 and the subsequent outbreak of the First World War, the governing South African Party SAP lost its overall parliamentary ... African Party government, so it could continue in office as a minority government. ref The Times ... the Third Parliament of the Union met in April last Jan Smuts General Smuts found his party in a minority ... more details
The Protestant People s Party PPP was a minor Australia n political party which operated in the state of New South Wales NSW in the 1940s. The party contested the 1946 Australian federal election, 1946 Australian federal election for election to the Australian Senate Senate , in which it gained 7.7 of the vote in NSW which translated to 3 nationally . This was a particularly impressive result for a minor party at the time, given the strength of the two party system in Australia during the 1940s. Nevertheless, the result was insufficient to gain the PPP a parliamentary seat. Three years later, the PPP contested the 1949 Australian federal election, 1949 Australian federal election , but saw its vote collapse to just 1 of the total NSW Senate vote. The PPP was never successful in winning representation to either the NSW or Australian parliaments. See also List of political parties in Australia External links http elections.uwa.edu.au partysearch3.lasso The University of Western Australia Australian Government and Politics Database Category Defunct political parties in New South Wales Category Protestant political parties Category Defunct Christian political parties Australia party stub ... more details
Infobox political party country Northern Ireland party name UK UnionistParty colorcode UK UnionistParty meta color party logo Image UK UnionistParty logo.png leader Robert McCartney politician Robert ... europarl N A colours Red , White and Blue headquarters Bangor, County Down Bangor website The UK UnionistParty UKUP was a small unionist political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2008 ... McCartney , formerly of the Ulster UnionistParty , to contest a by election the North Down by election ... as an independent using the label Real Unionist . Ideology Ideologically, the UK UnionistParty was an integrationist party which, unlike most Northern Irish unionist parties, believed that Northern ... the south helped reinforce the UKUP s claims to be a non sectarian Unionistparty. McCartney and O Brien, along with Cedric Wilson , won seats on the 1996 Forum. The UKUP and the Democratic UnionistParty DUP refused to accept United States Senate US Senator George J. Mitchell George Mitchell as chairman of the multi party talks and tried to obstruct him in the undertaking of his tasks. In July 1996, the UKUP withdrew from the multi party talks in protest at the way in which the Drumcree conflict .... On 5 January 1999, all four left the UKUP to form the Northern Ireland UnionistParty , leaving ... lost his seat in the British House of Commons House of Commons to the Ulster UnionistParty . In the Northern ... seat. The rival Northern Ireland UnionistParty created by breakaway Member of the Legislative Assembly ... personally stood in six constituencies and former Democratic UnionistParty DUP MLA George Ennis also ... Defunct political parties in Northern Ireland DEFAULTSORT Uk UnionistParty Category Political parties ... of Northern Ireland . It was also highly critical of the British Labour Party UK Labour ... prior to the Provisional IRA IRA fully disarming. The party also opposed the re organising of policing ... of Northern Ireland PSNI . History The party secured a particular coup in 1996 when it was joined ... more details
Infobox political party country Northern Ireland party name Northern Ireland UnionistParty colorcode Northern Ireland UnionistParty meta color party logo Image NIunionist.party.logo.gif leader Cedric Wilson foundation 1999 dissolution 2008 ideology Ulster unionism position Right wing international None european None europarl None colours Red , White , Blue headquarters Newtownabbey website None The Northern Ireland UnionistParty NIUP was a small political party in Northern Ireland . It was formed in January 1999 as a splinter party from the UK UnionistParty UKUP . This split was caused by disagreement between the five UKUP members of the Northern Ireland Assembly . Four of the members disagreed with UKUP leader Robert McCartney politician Robert McCartney s policy of resigning from the Assembly should Sinn F in become part of the power sharing executive. Cedric Wilson , Patrick Roche politician Patrick Roche , Norman Boyd and Roger Hutchinson disagreed with McCartney, wanting to remain in the Assembly to challenge unionists in favour of the Belfast Agreement . McCartney disciplined these members in their absence and, in response, they left the UKUP and formed the NIUP. Led by Wilson, the new party argued that it had the support of the grassroots membership of the UKUP, but McCartney ... Unionist for a period before joining the Democratic UnionistParty DUP . He then left the DUP ... Unionist. The NIUP opposed the Belfast Agreement and the reformation of the Royal Ulster ... unionism. In its first electoral test, the party polled very poorly in the United Kingdom general ... case. The party s submission of accounts for 2004 stated that the party was inactive during this period ... files dms NorthernIrelandUnionistParty 17359 12786 E N S W .PDF title Northern Ireland UnionistParty Statement of Accounts 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2004 accessdate 2008 06 21 last Boyd ... last out of the fifteen candidates. The NIUP voluntarily deregistered as a political party on 10 March ... more details
For the Canadian party Liberal Unionist no footnotes date July 2010 Infobox political party name Liberal UnionistParty colorcode teal logo leader Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire The Duke of Devonshire , Joseph Chamberlain founded 1886 dissolved May 1912 merger split Liberal Party UK Liberal Party merged Conservative Party UK Conservative and UnionistParty headquarters newspaper ... national international colours state United Kingdom The Liberal UnionistParty was a United Kingdom British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party UK Liberal Party . Led by Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire Lord Hartington later the Duke of Devonshire and Joseph Chamberlain , the party formed a political alliance with the Conservative Party UK Conservative Party in opposition to Home Rule Irish home rule Irish Home Rule . The two ... Unionist Council, which was to become the Liberal Unionistparty, Chamberlain organised the separate ... with the Conservative Government and supplied it with a cabinet minister , the party s Radical Unionist ... the Liberal Unionist Association in 1904 in protest. Chamberlain took over the party s leadership ... merger had already happened to some extent in Ireland, with the Irish UnionistParty and the separately ... and UnionistParty, now usually called the Conservative Party UK Conservative Party . Although ... in political life until 1914. Though the Liberal Unionistparty disappeared as a separate organisation ... Party and thus became Prime Minister in 1937 told an audience how proud he was of his Liberal Unionist ... Kingdom UnionistParty Scotland Scottish UnionistParty 1912 1965 Irish UnionistParty Ulster UnionistParty References Commons category Liberal UnionistParty F.W.S. Craig ed , British Parliamentary ... UnionistParty, 1886 1912 , Parliamentary History , vol 30, pt 2 2011 , pp 142 157 Category Defunct ... sv Liberal UnionistParty ... more details
For the political group founded in 1938 Ulster Progressive Unionist Association For the Egyptian political group National Progressive UnionistParty Infobox political party country Northern Ireland name english Progressive UnionistParty name native logo Image Progressive UnionistParty logo.png 250px ... Ireland Labour Party and Progressive UnionistParty Compared journal Politics volume 27 ... www.progressiveunionistparty.org colorcode Progressive UnionistParty meta color seats1 title House ... party seats 0 18 hex Progressive UnionistParty meta color seats2 title European Parliament European Parliament Northern Irish seats seats2 Infobox political party seats 0 3 hex Progressive UnionistParty meta color seats3 title Northern Ireland Assembly seats3 Infobox political party seats 0 108 hex Progressive UnionistParty meta color seats4 title Local government in Northern Ireland seats4 Infobox political party seats 2 582 hex Progressive UnionistParty meta color The Progressive UnionistParty PUP is a small Unionism in Ireland unionist political party in Northern Ireland . It was formed from the Independent Unionist Group operating in the Shankill, Belfast Shankill area of Belfast ... party yourquestions.aspx title Progressive UnionistParty PUP Your Questions publisher Pup ni.org.uk ... such as the Ulster UnionistParty and the Democratic UnionistParty which are ideologically conservative ... party in Northern Ireland. Dr John Kyle unionist politician John Kyle was co opted on to Belfast ... of the Progressive UnionistParty gallery Image PUP Logo.png Progressive UnionistParty gallery ... Progressive UnionistParty politicians Category Ulster unionism Category Social democratic parties in the United Kingdom ca Partit Unionista Progressista de Progressive UnionistParty fr Parti unioniste progressiste ja no Progressive UnionistParty ... , it is the left wing party of unionism in Northern Ireland, with its main support base in the Ulster ... more details
The Ulster Popular UnionistParty UPUP was a Unionists Ireland unionist political party in Northern Ireland . It was founded in 1980 by James Kilfedder , independent Unionist Member of Parliament for North Down UK Parliament constituency North Down , who led the party until his death in 1995. In Northern Ireland local elections, 1981 1981 , the party took three seats on North Down Borough Council and two seats on Ards borough Ards Borough Council . Two of these were in North Down Area B , where sitting councillor George Green politician George Green , a former Vanguard Progressive UnionistParty member who had been elected to the 1975 Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention , had joined the party. ref http www.ark.ac.uk elections 73 81lgnorthdown.htm The Local Government Elections 1973 1981 North Down , Northern Ireland Elections ref The other, Gladys McIntyre, was Mayor of Ards in 1985 86. Kilfedder won a seat for the party in North Down Assembly constituency North Down at the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1982 . Only a minority of his votes transferred to his running mate, George Green, who missed out on taking a second seat by just 6 votes. Kilfedder was subsequently elected ... formed UK UnionistParty . ref http www.ark.ac.uk elections lgnorthdown.htm North Down Borough Council ... Elections , Northern Ireland elections ref A unionist pact enabled Kilfedder to easily win a North Down by election, 1986 by election in 1986 , when he joined the other unionist MPs in resigning in protest ... as a Real Unionist , led to a close election in UK general election, 1987 1987 , but Kilfedder held on, and beat a Conservative Party UK Conservative Party opponent in UK general election, 1992 1992 . ref name 1983 elections The party was reduced to three councillors in Northern Ireland local ... had defected to the Conservative Party before Northern Ireland local elections, 1989 1989 but the party ... setting up a short lived independent DUP. No party member contested the North Down by election ... more details
Infobox political party country Sudan colorcode 00A6EF party name Democratic UnionistPartyparty logo File Sudanese Unionist National Party Logo.gif 150px leader Al Sayyid foundation start date 1950 ideology ... of Sudan seats1 Infobox political party seats 4 450 hex 00A6EF seats2 title Council of States of Sudan seats2 Infobox political party seats 1 50 hex 00A6EF Unreferenced date January 2007 Politics of Sudan For political parties with similar names Democratic UnionistParty disambiguation The Democratic UnionistParty lang ar Al Hizb Al Ittihadi Al Dimuqrati is the oldest political party in Sudan . Sudan s first President Ismail al Azhari was a member of the party when it was known as the National UnionistParty. It was in 1967, in the house of its patron Sir Sayyid Ali Al Mirghani , that Al Azhari declared the new party under the name Democratic UnionistParty in the presence ... . The party s main platform is in favour of the unity of Sudan and previously Sudan and Egypt the downstream ... is the only Sudanese party to have ever solely governed the country through democratic elections 1953 winning 58 seats followed by the Umma Party with 22 seats. It is seen as the only major Sudanese party that has not participated in a coup d etat in Sudan since its independence. In the last democratic elections in 1984 the party won the largest number of votes and came second in the number of seats won in parliament. The basic intellectual underpinnings of the party since its general congress ... and duties should be based upon the Citizenship alone. . The party has long standing relations with the SPLM ... by the NIF party. It also enjoys good relationships with almost all the Sudanese political groups. The last legislative elections in Sudan elections , December 2000, were boycotted by the party, as most ... it by the Sudanese security forces and the ruling party of Sudan, which seem to have failed so ..., the party s position has shifted towards a more mediatory role attempting to re align the old ... more details
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