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- ↑ Biography – Joan Carson Archived 26 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine , Northern Ireland Assembly
- ↑ Dungannon Borough Council Elections 1993 – 2005, Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ Fermanagh and South Tyrone Archived 9 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ "Ulster Unionist Party - for All of Us". Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2008.