A university constituency is a constituency,used in elections to a legislature,that represents the members of one or more universities rather than residents of a geographical area. These may or may not involve plural voting,in which voters are eligible to vote in or as part of this entity and their home area's geographical constituency.
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 from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson,it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement. Following the partition of Ireland,it was the governing party of Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. It was supported by most unionist voters throughout the conflict known as the Troubles,during which time it was often referred to as the Official Unionist Party (OUP).
The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature of Northern Ireland,created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920,which sat from 7 June 1921 to 30 March 1972,when it was suspended because of its inability to restore order during The Troubles,resulting in the introduction of Direct Rule. It was abolished under the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973.
The 1918 Irish general election was the part of the 1918 United Kingdom general election which took place in Ireland. It is a key moment in modern Irish history because it saw the overwhelming defeat of the moderate nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP),which had dominated the Irish political landscape since the 1880s,and a landslide victory for the radical Sinn Féin party. Sinn Féin had never previously stood in a general election,but had won six seats in by-elections in 1917–18. The party had vowed in its manifesto to establish an independent Irish Republic. In Ulster,however,the Unionist Party was the most successful party.
North Antrim is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Ian Paisley Jr of the DUP.
Belfast East is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Gavin Robinson of the DUP.
North Down is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Stephen Farry of the Alliance Party. Farry was elected to the position in the 2019 general election,replacing the incumbent Sylvia Hermon. Hermon had held the position since being elected to it in the 2001 general election,but chose not to contest in 2019.
Thomas Moles was a journalist and Ulster Unionist politician.
The 1921 Irish elections took place in Ireland on 24 May 1921 to elect members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland. These legislatures had been established by the Government of Ireland Act 1920,which granted Home Rule to a partitioned Ireland within the United Kingdom.
Joseph Devlin was an Irish journalist and influential nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Irish Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Later Devlin was an MP and leader of the Nationalist Party in the Parliament of Northern Ireland. He was referred to as "the duodecimo Demosthenes" by the Irish politician Tim Healy which Devlin took as a compliment.
Independent Unionist has been a label sometimes used by candidates in elections in the United Kingdom,indicating a support for British unionism.
In the United Kingdom,general elections occur at least every five years. About 650 constituencies return a member of Parliament. Prior to 1945,electoral competition in the United Kingdom exhibited features which make meaningful comparisons with modern results difficult. Hence,unless otherwise stated,records are based on results since the 1945 general election,and earlier exceptional results are listed separately.
Sir Robert John Lynn was a British Ulster Unionist Party politician. In March 1924 he was knighted.
Colonel Philip James Woods was an independent unionist politician in Northern Ireland,member of the Northern Ireland House of Commons. He was a colonel in the Royal Irish Rifles,seeing action on the Western Front in the First World War and in Karelia where he raised and led a local regiment during the Allied Intervention North Russia Russia. In Belfast he worked as a textile designer.
Sir David Douglas Reid,1st Baronet,was the Unionist Member of Parliament for Down from 1922 until his death in 1939.
Charles Curtis Craig was an Irish Unionist and later Ulster Unionist politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for constituencies in County Antrim from 1903 to 1929,taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The son of James Craig,of Craigavon,Belfast,a self-made millionaire whisky distiller,among his brothers was Northern Ireland's first Prime Minister,James Craig.
Sir John Joseph Mooney was an Irish nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1918,taking his seat as an Irish Parliamentary Party member of the House of Commons of what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was a member of a prominent Dublin business and pub-owning family,J G Mooney &Co plc.
Thompson Donald was a Northern Irish Unionist politician.
Robert Gordon Sharman-Crawford PC was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Sir Thomas Edward McConnell was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
