The 1986 South Antrim by-election included a candidate from which Northern Irish unionist party?
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South Antrim by-election, 1986 The 1986 South Antrim by-election was one of the fifteen 1986 Northern Ireland 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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Democratic Unionist Party The Democratic Unionist Party is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland.
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Nigel Dodds Nigel Alexander Dodds, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 20 August 1958) is a Northern Irish barrister and unionist politician. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast North, and has been deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since June 2008. He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and from 1993 has been General Secretary of the DUP.
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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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Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician) Reverend Robert Jonathan Bradford (8 June 1941 – 14 November 1981) was a Methodist Minister and a Vanguard Unionist and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for the Belfast South constituency in Northern Ireland until his assassination by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 14 November 1981.
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NI21 NI21 was a short-lived political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 2013 by ex-Ulster Unionist Party MLAs Basil McCrea and John McCallister. Although it explicitly supported Northern Ireland staying part of the United Kingdom (i.e. unionism), it planned to designate as "other" rather than "unionist" in future Stormont elections. It presented itself as a "cross-community party" and promoted a Northern Irish national identity for the 21st century. The party had two MLAs in the Northern Ireland Assembly and a single Councillor in Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council before crisis.
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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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Independent Unionist Association The Independent Unionist Association or Independent Unionist Party was a political party in Northern Ireland.
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Progressive Unionist Party The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) is a small unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was formed from the "Independent Unionist Group" operating in the Shankill area of Belfast, becoming the PUP in 1979. Linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Red Hand Commando (RHC), it was for a time the only left-wing party of unionism in Northern Ireland, with its main support base in the loyalist working class communities of Belfast.
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Trevor Lunn Trevor Lunn (born 29 June 1946) is an Alliance Party politician in Northern Ireland.
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Eileen M. Hickey Eileen M. Hickey (1886 – 3 February 1960) was a politician in Northern Ireland.
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Thomas Bailie Thomas Bailie (15 July 1885 – 22 November 1957) was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Member of Parliament (1941–1953) in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, based at Stormont, during which time he was Deputy Speaker.
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South Tyrone by-election, 1916 The South Tyrone by-election of 1916 was held on 28 February 1916. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Unionist MP, Andrew Long Horner. It was won by the Irish Unionist candidate William Coote, who was unopposed.
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North Kilkenny by-election, 1906 The 1906 North Kilkenny by-election was held on 3 March 1906 after Joseph Devlin resigned. Devlin had been elected for the Irish Parliamentary Party in the 1906 general election for both North Kilkenny and West Belfast. As he could only take one seat he chose West Belfast, so creating a vacancy.
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Alexander McConnell Alexander McConnell (born 9 February 1915) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. He was born in Ballyclare. McConnell worked as a publican and joined the Ulster Unionist Party. He was elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland in 1956, serving until 1961.
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Upper Bann by-election, 1990 The 1990 by-election in Upper Bann was caused by the death of the sitting Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament Harold McCusker on 2 February 1990.
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Paul Girvan Paul Girvan (born 6 July 1963) is a Northern Irish politician. Since 2017, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Antrim.
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Thomas Nelson (Northern Ireland politician) Thomas Charles Nelson (1888–16 March 1954) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
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Esmond Thompson Francis Henry Esmond Thompson (born 1929) was a Northern Irish politician with the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).
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Tom Hamilton (politician) Tom Hamilton (born 8 July 1954) is a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
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North Antrim (Assembly constituency) North Antrim (Irish: "Aontroim Thuaidh" , Ulster Scots: "North Anthrim") is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Phillip Logan Phillip Logan (born 4 July 1989) is a Democratic Unionist Party politician from Northern Ireland. He was an MLA for North Antrim from 5 May 2016 but lost his seat in the 2017 Assembly election.