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unusual facts about Unionist Party


Thomas MacNutt

The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by Members of Parliament who supported the "Union government" formed by Sir Robert Borden during World War I.


Chaudhry Abdul Rehman Khan

Chaudhary Muhammad Abdul Rehman Khan was the Rana of Rahon Jagir and Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from the Unionist Party.

Kilmarnock by-election, 1933

The parties in the National Government did not contest by-elections when vacancies arose in seats held by other paties in the government, so the Unionist Party and the National Liberals did not field candidates.


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Brixton by-election, 1927

Nigel Colman was the Conservative and Unionist Party candidate was a business man, a breeder and exhibitor of light horses and represented Brixton on the London County Council.

George Barham

Barham owned two estates at Wadhurst in Sussex and 1895 he stood for the Unionist party in the 1895 general election at West Islington but was not elected.

George Hutchison

Ian Clark Hutchison (1903–2002), full name George Ian Clark Hutchison, Scottish Unionist Party MP for Edinburgh West

George Aitken Clark Hutchison (1873–1928), Scottish Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Midlothian and Peebles Northern

Gordon Wilson

Gordon Crooks Wilson (1872–1937), Conservative and Unionist Party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Helen Shaw

Helen Brown Shaw (died 1964), Unionist Party politician in Scotland

James McCusker

James Harold McCusker (1940–1990), Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician

Jóannes Eidesgaard

As a result of the ongoing debates about who should be the new Prime Minister, Jóannes Eidesgaard decided to step down as Prime Minister to allow Kaj Leo Johannesen of the Unionist Party to assume that office as a compromise.

Ken Maginnis

The comments prompted Ulster Unionist Party leader, Mike Nesbitt to state that his views were expressed in a personal capacity and did not reflect party policy.

Padraig O'Malley

Senior negotiators from Northern Ireland (NI), including Martin McGuinness from Sinn Féin, currently Deputy First Minister of NI, Jeffrey Donaldson from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

Roy Beggs

Beggs was known as one of the more hard-line members of the UUP, being vociferous in his Euroscepticism and his suspicions about the Belfast Agreement - initially involving himself in Union First (a group within the Ulster Unionist Party opposed to the Agreement), although in his final two years in Parliament he appeared publicly supportive of the Agreement and of leader David Trimble.