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unusual facts about Alliance Party of Northern Ireland



Baron Dunleath

His grandson, the fourth Baron, was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the Alliance Party.

David McClarty

He is one of a number of high profile Ulster Unionist moderates who have left the party along with Harry Hamilton and Paula Bradshaw, who both joined the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, and Trevor Ringland, who joined the NI Conservatives.

Mary Clark-Glass

The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland stood Clark-Glass as their candidate for the Northern Ireland constituency in the European Parliament election in 1994, hoping that she would emulate the success of Mary Robinson in the Irish presidential election in 1990.

Northern Ireland Conservatives

The sole exception, Stratton Mills, left the UUP and continued to take the whip for a further year, before joining the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.


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