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This is a list of members of Parliament elected in the 1969 Northern Ireland general election.
All members of the
Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the
1969 Northern Ireland general election are listed.
Members
Changes
- November 1969:
Thomas Gormley resigned from the
Nationalist Party to sit as an Independent Nationalist.
- 19 March 1970:
Desmond Boal,
William Craig,
Norman Laird,
John McQuade and
Harry West expelled from the Ulster Unionist parliamentary party.
- 16 April 1970:
Ian Paisley and
William Beattie of the
Protestant Unionist Party were elected in Bannside and South Antrim to replace
Terence O'Neill and
Richard Ferguson respectively.
- 21 August 1970:
Ivan Cooper,
Austin Currie,
Paddy Devlin,
Gerry Fitt,
John Hume and
Paddy O'Hanlon found the
Social Democratic and Labour Party.
- September 1970:
Lloyd Hall-Thompson joins the
Ulster Unionist Party
- 12 November 1970:
John Dunn Laird of the
Ulster Unionist Party was elected in Belfast St Anne's to replace his father,
Norman Laird.
- March 1971:
Harry West re-admitted to the Ulster Unionist parliamentary party;
Anne Dickson resigns from the Ulster Unionist Party.
- 30 October 1971:
William Beattie,
Desmond Boal,
Ian Paisley and
John McQuade founded the
Democratic Unionist Party.
- 27 January 1972:
John Laird and
Robert James Mitchell expelled from the Ulster Unionist Party.
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- 9 February 1972:
William Craig founded the
Ulster Vanguard movement.
- 1972:
Thomas Columba Gormley,
Robert Dodd McConnell,
Phelim O'Neill and
Robert Wilson Porter joined the
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
- 10 October 1972:
Robert Simpson resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party.
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