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The Belfast South by-election of 22 October 1963 was held after the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) Sir David Campbell on 12 June the same year. The seat was retained by the Ulster Unionists.
The Armagh by-election was held on 20 November 1954, following the resignation of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament James Harden.
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The Galloway by-election of 9 April 1959 was held after the death of Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) John Mackie:
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The 1953 North Down by-election was held on 15 April 1953. It was held due to the incumbent Ulster Unionist Party MP, Walter Smiles, dying in the sinking of the MV Princess Victoria off the Copeland Islands, in the same storm which caused the North Sea flood of 1953. It was retained by his daughter, Patricia Ford, who was unopposed when she stood as the Unionist candidate. She became the first woman to sit as an Ulster Unionist MP but she stood down in the 1955 general election.
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The 1959 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 8 October with 12 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post as part of the wider general election in the United Kingdom.
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- ↑ Archived 11 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine PoliticsResources.net
- ↑ "1959 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
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