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unusual facts about Social Democratic and Labour Party



Coleraine Borough Council

district MLAs = East Londonderry
DUP: 3
Independent: 1
Sinn Féin: 1
SDLP

Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council

district MLAs = Fermanagh & South Tyrone & Mid Ulster
Sinn Féin: 6
DUP: 1
SDLP: 1
UUP

Irish presidential election, 1990

Fine Gael, after trying and failing to get former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald and former Tánaiste Peter Barry to run, ultimately nominated the former civil rights campaigner and SDLP member Austin Currie.

Jim Speers

Seamus Mallon, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982 was disqualified because he had been a member of the Irish Seanad at the time of his election.

Labour Party of Northern Ireland

The Labour Party of Northern Ireland (LPNI) is a political party in Northern Ireland, formed in 1985 by a group around Paddy Devlin, a former Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor and Northern Ireland Assembly member, and Billy Blease, a member of the British House of Lords.

Newry and Mourne District Council

district MLAs = Newry and Armagh & South Down
Sinn Féin: 5
SDLP: 3
DUP: 2
UUP

Rowel Friers

His funeral was attended by a large crowd, including politicians from both sides of the sectarian divide - the SDLP's Lord Fitt and the DUP leader, the Reverend Ian Paisley.


see also

Labour Party leadership election, 2011

The Social Democratic and Labour Party leadership election, 2011 refers to the leadership election that took place in Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party following a challenge to the leadership of Margaret Ritchie