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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics | Election 2005 | Trimble's unionists are swept away |
 | | Mr Trimble, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, had been MP for Upper Bann for 15 years, but lost by more than 5,000 votes, a margin that surprised even the winner, a gospel-singing meat wholesaler, David Simpson. |
 | | The UUP lost three seats to the DUP and one to the SDLP, whose deputy leader, Alasdair McDonnell, became the first nationalist MP for the affluent, traditionally unionist South Belfast seat. |
 | | The DUP, now the biggest Northern Ireland party at Westminster, finished with nine seats, saying the unionist people had spoken out against the Good Friday agreement and "pushover unionism". |
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