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	The Scottish Unionist Party
		The "Scottish Unionist Party", or "Unionist Party" as it was known within Scotland, was the main Tory or Conservative organisation in Scotland between 1912 and 1965.
		Whilst the party may have been linked on a Parliamentary level with the Conservative and Unionist Party in England and Wales, it was conscious that it had to appeal to the middle class liberal tradition in Scotland and studiously avoided using the term "Conservative".
		This was at odds with the past Scottish Unionist position of "service to others and to the community" and was graphically illustrated by the cool reception she received at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland when she made her "Sermon on the Mound".
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/gazette/scottish_unionist.html (3216 words)

	United Ulster Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Ulster Unionist Party was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1977 and 1982.
		The decline was evident even before the local government elections of 1981 as 4 of the 12 UUUP councillors elected in 1977 had defected to other Unionist parties (2 to UUP, 1 to DUP and 1 to the Ulster Popular Unionist Party).
		The party had a miserable showing in the 1981 elections with its overall vote share declining from 2.8% in 1977 to 0.7% in 1981.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Ulster_Unionist_Party (536 words)

	North Down (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of Northern Ireland's five main parties, only the Ulster Unionist Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland have historically had a significant organisation and support in the constituency, though the Democratic Unionist Party has recently started to gain a foothold where it hitherto was near non-existent.
		The Ulster Popular Unionist Party, the Conservative Party, the UK Unionist Party and the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition have all polled substantially in the last fifteen years, whilst in local council elections many independent candidates gain sufficient votes to be elected.
		The area is the heartland of numerous "one-man parties", of which the Ulster Popular Unionist Party and the UK Unionist Party are the best known but far from the only ones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (1641 words)

	Ulster Popular Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ulster Popular Unionist Party was a unionist political party in Northern Ireland.
		It was founded in 1980 by James Kilfedder, Member of Parliament for North Down, who led the party until his death in 1995.
		When Kilfedder died in 1995, the three councillors elected on his slate soon went their own ways, one to the Democratic Unionist Party, one to the newly formed UK Unionist Party, and the other forming a shortlived "Independent DUP" movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Popular_Unionist_Party (182 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Conservative party (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The party's majority in the House of Commons was increased in 1955, and Sir Anthony Eden became (1955) prime minister upon Churchill's retirement.
		Popularity diminished temporarily during the Suez Canal crisis, but favorable economic conditions and the political skill of Harold Macmillan, who headed the government after Eden's resignation (1957), resulted in a solid electoral victory in 1959.
		The party received a resounding defeat in the 1997 elections, and Major was replaced as party leader by William Hague.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Conserva.asp (1297 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party - Introduction
		On 22nd October 1904, a conference of Unionists in Belfast passed a resolution suggesting that the secretary of the Irish Unionist Parliamentary Party be directed to summons a preliminary meeting in Belfast of Ulster Unionists, to discuss the advisability of forming a central Ulster Unionist Association.
		At the Annual General Meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council in the Assembly Hall, Belfast on 24th February 1921, Sir James Craig was unanimously elected leader of the Unionist Party in Ulster, having been proposed by Carson and seconded by Sir James H Stronge.
		Notwithstanding the fact that Ulster Unionists held the Conservative Whip during this period, the Unionist Party was able to assert its independence by producing its own policies as expressed in decisions of the Annual Conference, or more often in the decisions of the devolved legislature at Stormont.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/6010/hiindex.htm (3624 words)

	Liberal Unionist Party
		Most of the Liberal Unionists were drawn from the Whig faction of the party, including Hartington, Lord Lansdowne, and George Goschen, and had been expected to split from the party anyway, for reasons connected with economic and social policy.
		The Liberal Unionists, despite providing the necessary margin for Salisbury's majority, continued to sit on the opposition benches throughout the life of the parliament elected in 1886, and Hartington and Chamberlain continued to occupy the opposition front benches alongside their former colleagues Gladstone and Harcourt.
		As a party that depended on an electoral pact with the Tories to maintain their M.P.s in parliament, the Liberal Unionists had to at least appear to be also 'Liberal' in matters not connected with Home Rule including some measures of promoting reform.
	www.jgames.co.uk /title/Liberal_Unionist_Party (2662 words)

	news12
		UNIONISTS last night were almost united in their dismissal of Sinn Fein's call for a new IRA ceasefire as a "tactical" move.
		The parties linked to the loyalist paramilitaries were more pragmatic about the possibility of a ceasefire and Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble surprisingly made positive comments, saying he hoped any ceasefire would be "complete, universal and permanent".
		Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble said: "I hope this time it's going to be a ceasefire that's complete, universal and permanent and will lead quickly to the disarmament and disbandment of terrorist organisations.
	www.irishnews.com /ceasefire/cf11.html (869 words)

	Keesing's Worldwide Online - Hot Topics: Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The election was notable, however, for the large number of contested constituencies and the division in the Unionist Party, reflected at the polls, between supporters and opponents of Captain O'Neill's leadership.
		Of the 37 Unionist candidates officially adopted by local constituency associations, 22 were regarded as supporters of Captain O'Neill, 13 as opposed to his leadership, and two as uncommitted, while the Independent Unionists comprised 15 supporters of the Prime Minister, mostly standing against official anti-O'Neill Unionists, and three opponents fighting Unionist supporters of Captain O'Neill.
		This party, with a membership of 2,550 and 21 Ulster trade unions affiliated to it, is associated with the British Labour Party, whose policies it supports.
	www.keesings.com /hot_topics/no_ireland (2672 words)

	Tunisia (02/08)
		The ruling party, the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD), was the sole legal party for 25 years--including when it was known as the Socialist Destourian Party (PSD)--and still dominates political life.
		The parties are generally weak and divided and face considerable restrictions on their ability to organize.
		The Islamist opposition party, An-Nahdha, was allowed to operate openly in the late 1980s and early 1990s despite a ban on religiously based parties.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5439.htm (4861 words)

	CERD/C/318/Add.1 - State Party Report - Jordan
		Jordanians have the right to form associations and political parties, provided that their aims are lawful, that their means are peaceful and that their rules of procedure are consistent with the provisions of the Constitution.
		According to the National Charter: "Jordanians have the right to form and join political parties and organizations, provided that their aims are lawful, that their means are peaceful and that their rules of procedure are consistent with the provisions of the Constitution".
		The political parties in Jordan were established on the non-ethnic and non-confessional basis of citizenship and national identity, as required by article 4 of the Political Parties Act, which stipulates that: "Jordanians have the right to form and voluntarily join political parties in accordance with the provisions of the law".
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/documentation/tbodies/cerd-c-318-add1.htm (6022 words)

	Conservative Party - Conservapedia
		The Conservative Party is the largest right-wing party in the United Kingdom, and is one of that country's three major political parties.
		She was succeeded by John Major in 1990, and, to the surprise of the media, Major won the general election in 1992 and extended the Conservative Party's power until 1997.
		This was coupled with a perception that the party had become corrupt, with a number of high-profile members of the party being involved in financial and sexual scandals.
	www.conservapedia.com /Conservative_Party (535 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		The Unionist Party is not an electoral pact, or a coalition or council - it is a single party, just as Sinn Fein has become the single biggest party for republicans in the North.
		Many pro-Agreement Ulster Unionists are worried the party could go the same way as the late Brian Faulkner's pro-Assembly unionist grouping, which eventually became the now defunct Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.
		A merger with the UUP could enable the Paisley party to rid itself of the Free Presbyterian fundamentalist clique, whilst at the same time, it would enable the Ulster Unionists to dump the Orange Order baggage which has bedeviled the Ulster Unionist Council since the Drumcree parades saga grew nasty in the late 1990s.
	lark.phoblacht.net /jc1201052g.html (1236 words)

	Irish American Post
		The Democratic Unionist Party was tonight accused by its main rival of adopting a "parasitical" approach to the Belfast Agreement.
		The interest in the unionist side is the internal battle for the Ulster Unionist seat between the anti-agreement Bert Wilson and the pro-agreement Derek Hussey, with outgoing member Hussey the probable winner.
		Several parties reported that there was an initial rush to the polls, but that was beginning to slow down as children were taken to school and voters began work.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2003/11oct-nov/news/news01.html (19405 words)

	The Ulster Unionist Party 1972
		His access to internal party material such as a private recording of a debate between devolutionist and integrationist speakers at an East Antrim constituency meeting indicates the genuine depth of feeling and division within the party in the immediate years after the 1985 Hillsborough Pact.
		The party had ruled the state since its foundation in 1921 and found it difficulty to adjust to the new role of ‘opposition’ to the whims and follies of successive ‘Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland’.
		Although popular within the UYUC, the ‘equal citizenship’ position was greeted coolly within the senior party, as it would envisage the then ‘mainland’ British parties – the Tories, Labour, the SDP and the Liberals - organising and contesting elections here against UUP candidates.
	www.ulsternation.org.uk /ulster_unionist_party_1972.htm (755 words)

	Labour Left Briefing - News 8 - June 96
		Whilst the LLB editorial board in no way supports the standpoint of an organisation which is linked to the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, we include these views as a contribution to developing a greater understanding of some of the issues raised in the search for a settlement to the conflict.
		My own party, the PUP, was formed in 1976 out of the Volunteer Political Party which was indeed the political wing of the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		It was recognised before I joined the PUP that it was futile to be associated with paramilitaries and expect the unionist community to vote for you - they will not.
	www.llb.labournet.org.uk /1996/june/news8.html (757 words)

	Bernadette McAlisky: Right answer on Irish peace agreement? A firm `no'
		The British government, the Ulster Unionist Party, the Alliance Party, the Ulster Democratic Party and the Popular Unionist Party are signatories to the same settlement as Sinn Fein.
		These parties tend to support the contention that the settlement does not provide an answer to the constitutional question of Irish reunification.
		Sinn Fein has also consistently argued against the existing "Unionist veto" on British government policy toward Northern Ireland, on the development of relationships between Britain and Ireland and on relationships within the island of Ireland.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/editorial/98/04/24/devlin-4-24.0-0.html (927 words)

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		The unionist elite could have been kinder and gentler in the way they ran a system built on the principle of religious apartheid but it is hard to be democratic in an entity whose raison d'etre was to frustrate democracy.
		What the mainstream unionists as well as the radical loyalists have to yet to accept (at least in public) is that no matter what happens the union will be weakened.
		My party believes that the war is over." He went on to outline his vision for the future; we want a democratic island, north and south, with all forms of sectarianism eliminated; "cherishing all the children of the nation equally".
	www.smo.uhi.ac.uk /~smacsuib/glo/v1.txt (6430 words)

	Guide to all the weird and wonderful British Political Parties
		In 1992 the party leader, Lindi St.Clair, was about be bankrupted for £112,000 tax on prostitution earnings and this forced her out of the general election because, a) she had no money left for the 50 deposits needed (£25,000), and b), bankrupts are banned from standing.
		The party had fallen back out of the national poll ratings by the end of 1990 and suffered from splits in the early 1990s, but it did begin to win a firm base of support in local elections, particularly in Stroud and the student wards of Oxford.
		The Ulster Unionists were until the early 1970s the official branch of the Conservative and Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, until the dissolution of Stormont forced them apart and the Unionists went on their own.
	www.angelfire.com /apes/burning-icicles/british_politics.html (6769 words)

	Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland Grand Orange Lodge
		When the UUP became the party in power with devolved government Orangemen were ministers of state, and one of them was Prime Minister.
		Unlike these the Democratic Unionist Party, founded by Ian Paisley in 1971, remains in competition with the UUP for the votes of most unionist people.
		We have appealed for accommodations from unionist parties to ensure that unionists are elected to local councils and to Westminster.
	www.grandorange.org.uk /press/Orange-Standard/2001-Standard/0106-June2001/article2.html (592 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		In the 1997 general election, Mr McCartney stood again for the North Down seat; the Democratic Unionist Party did not field a rival candidate in this seat and McCartney was re-elected.
		In line with other Unionist parties, the UKUP supports British rule of Northern Ireland (Ulster) and is opposed to measures (eg the framework agreement) to unite Ulster with the Republic of Ireland.
		Uncharacteristically for a unionist party, the UKUP is not aligned to the Conservative Party.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/parties/paukup.shtml (313 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Political Parties of Northern Ireland
		The split is between Unionist parties that wish to remain part of the United Kingdom, and Nationalist parties that wish Ireland to be united as one country.
		The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) are one of the parties that represent the Loyalist paramilitaries, in their case the political wing of the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		The Alliance Party was formed in 1970 to give political expression to those who felt that Nationalist and Unionist political parties did not reflect their political views.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1000710 (1388 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - State Party Report - Jordan
		Jordanians have the right to form associations and political parties, provided that their aims are lawful, that their means are peaceful and that their rules of procedure are consistent with the provisions of the Constitution.
		According to the National Charter: "Jordanians have the right to form and join political parties and organizations, provided that their aims are lawful, that their means are peaceful and that their rules of procedure are consistent with the provisions of the Constitution".
		The political parties in Jordan were established on the non-ethnic and non-confessional basis of citizenship and national identity, as required by article 4 of the Political Parties Act, which stipulates that: "Jordanians have the right to form and voluntarily join political parties in accordance with the provisions of the law".
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CERD.C.318.Add.1.En?Opendocument (6051 words)

	Unionists fail to block assembly's Easter lilies - Telegraph
		HARDLINE Unionists failed yesterday to prevent the display of Easter lilies, a republican symbol, at the Northern Ireland Assembly in spite of having forced an emergency debate which recalled members from the holiday recess.
		David Ervine, who represents the Popular Unionist Party, the political wing of the loyalist terrorist Ulster Volunteer Force, added to the charged atmosphere by suggesting that, as a former terrorist, he would have liked to see more republicans murdered.
		Mr Ervine, who was jailed for 11 years in 1974 after being stopped with a bomb in his car, said: "I have no particular desire to appreciate or venerate the republican dead other than perhaps myself and some of my colleagues might have liked to have added to the ranks of the republican dead.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/uknews/1310853/Unionists-fail-to-block-assembly's-Easter-lilies.html (562 words)

	Politics \| Northern Ireland parties hit EU campaign trail
		Mr Hume, the former leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and Mr Paisley, the veteran leader of the hardline Democratic Unionist party (DUP), have traditionally topped the poll in Northern Ireland's European elections, with the UUP taking the province's third European seat.
		The Ulster Unionists, meanwhile, are hoping that their sitting MEP, Jim Nicholson, can out-poll the DUP's Jim Allister and re-establish them as Northern Ireland's most popular unionist party following their defeat in last year's assembly election.
		Like Northern Ireland's main unionists parties, Sinn Féin is opposed to the creation of an EU constitution, which it believes will lead to the "further dilution of Irish sovereignty".
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4931372-113298,00.html (488 words)

	Records of Political Parties
		Unionist political parties and politicians (inc. Official Unionist Party).
		Included are the political papers of John William Ellison Macartney (Unionist MP for Co. Tyrone, 1874-1885), and Sir William Grey Ellison Macartney (Unionist MP for South Antrim, 1885-1913).
		He was secretary of the Ulster Unionist Party at Westminster, 1950-1955.
	www.proni.gov.uk /records/polpar.htm (1712 words)

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