An election for the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) was held on 8 April 2017 at the party's Annual General Meeting, the 2017 contested election was triggered after incumbent Leader Mike Nesbitt, elected in 2012, announced following the 2017 assembly election his intention to step down as party leader, the 2017 election to the Northern Ireland Assembly was held on which date?
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Ulster Unionist Party leadership election, 2017 An election for the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) was held on 8 April 2017 at the party's Annual General Meeting. Elections are held each year, with the incumbent usually reelected unopposed. The 2017 contested election was triggered after incumbent Leader Mike Nesbitt, elected in 2012, announced following the 2017 assembly election his intention to step down as party leader. While initially, Robin Swann and Steve Aiken were expected to run against each other (with candidacies by Doug Beattie, Robbie Butler and Roy Beggs, Jr. also considered possible), in the end only Swann ran and was elected unopposed.
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Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2017 The 2017 election to the Northern Ireland Assembly was held on 2 March 2017. The election was held to elect members (MLAs) following the resignation of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness in protest over the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal. McGuinness' position was not filled, and thus by law his resignation triggered an election. It was the sixth election since the Assembly was re-established in 1998, and the first to implement a reduction in size to 90 MLAs (versus the previous 108).
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Brenda Hale (Northern Ireland politician) Brenda Hale is a Democratic Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. She sat in the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Lagan Valley from 2011 until her defeat at the 2017 Assembly election.
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Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2017 The 2017 Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election is an ongoing contest to determine the next leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats.
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Billy Hutchinson Billy "Hutchie" Hutchinson (born 1955) is the leader of the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland. He was elected to Belfast City Council in the 1997 elections and to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998. He lost his assembly seat in 2003 and his council seat in 2005. Before this he had been a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and was a founder of their youth wing, the Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV).
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Democratic Unionist Party The Democratic Unionist Party is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland.
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London Assembly election, 2016 The 2016 London Assembly election was an election held on 5 May 2016 to elect the members of the London Assembly. It took place on the same day as the London mayoral election and the United Kingdom local elections.
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Leader of the Opposition (Northern Ireland) The Leader of the Opposition in Northern Ireland was theoretically the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland which was not the government. The position was eliminated in 1972 when the Stormont Parliament was abolished and replaced by direct rule from London.
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Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2017 The 2017 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held following the resignation of Tim Farron as leader on 14 June 2017, after just under two years as leader of the Liberal Democrats. At the close of applications on 20 July 2017, Vince Cable was the only nominated candidate and was therefore declared the new leader of the party.
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Elections in New Zealand New Zealand is a representative democracy. Members of the House of Representatives, commonly called "Parliament", normally gain their parliamentary seats through nationwide general elections, or in by-elections. General elections are usually held every three years; they may be held at an earlier date (a "snap" election) in the event of a vote of no confidence or other exceptional circumstances. A by-election is held to fill a vacancy arising during a parliamentary term. The most recent general election took place on 23 September 2017.
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Antrim by-election, 1943 The Antrim by-election of 1943 was held on 11 February 1943. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent UUP MP, Joseph McConnell. It was won by the UUP candidate John Dermot Campbell.
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Ulster Progressive Unionist Association The Ulster Progressive Unionist Association was a political group which was founded in 1938 and was active in Northern Ireland for a few years thereafter.
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Irish general election, 1965 The Irish general election of 1965 was held on 7 April 1965. The newly elected members of the 18th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 21 April when the new Taoiseach and government were appointed.
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West Down by-election, 1922 The West Down by-election of 1922 was held on 17 February 1922. The by-election was held due to the appointment as Chief Clerk to the High Court of Northern Ireland of the incumbent Ulster Unionist MP, Thomas Browne Wallace. It was won by the UUP candidate Hugh Hayes.
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United Kingdom general election, 2017 The United Kingdom general election of 2017 took place on Thursday 8 June. Each of the 650 constituencies elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 an election had not been due until 7 May 2020, but a call by Prime Minister Theresa May for a snap election was ratified by the necessary supermajority in a 522-13 vote in the House of Commons on 19 April 2017.
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Adrian Cochrane-Watson Adrian Cochrane-Watson (born 18 February 1967) is an Ulster Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. He succeeded Danny Kinahan as an MLA for South Antrim following the former's election to Westminster. At the 2016 election, he failed to retain his seat.
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United Kingdom general election, 2010 (Scotland) These are the Scottish results of the United Kingdom general election, 2010. The election was held on 6 May 2010 and all 59 seats in Scotland were contested. There were no seat changes from the 2005 General Election, although Labour took back 2 seats that it had lost in by-elections.
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Northern Ireland by-elections, 1986 The 1986 Northern Ireland by-elections were fifteen by-elections held on 23 January 1986, to fill vacancies in the Parliament of the United Kingdom caused by the resignation in December 1985 of all sitting Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs). The MPs, from the Ulster Unionist Party, Democratic Unionist Party and Ulster Popular Unionist Party, did this to highlight their opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Each of their parties agreed not to contest seats previously held by the others, and each outgoing MP stood for re-election.
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West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency) West Tyrone is a county constituency in Northern Ireland, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
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Welsh local elections, 2017 Local elections were held in Wales on Thursday 4 May 2017 to elect members of all 22 local authorities, including the Isle of Anglesey, which was last up for election in 2013 due to having its elections delayed for a year. These local elections were held alongside local elections in Scotland and parts of England.
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Serbian parliamentary election, 2016 Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 24 April 2016. They were originally due to be held by March 2018, but on 17 January 2016 Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić called for a snap election claiming Serbia "needs four more years of stability so that it is ready to join the European Union". The parliamentary elections were held simultaneously with provincial elections in Vojvodina and nationwide local elections.
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Nelson McCausland Nelson McCausland (born 15 August 1951) is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland. He was a member of the Democratic Unionist Party and an MLA for North Belfast from 2003. He served as Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure (2009–2011) and Minister for Social Development (2011–2014) in the Northern Ireland Executive. In the 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly Election he lost his North Belfast MLA seat