List of members of the 12th House of Commons of Northern Ireland
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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
| Name | Constituency | Party | |
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| Albert Anderson | City of Londonderry
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UUP | |
| Robert Babington | North Down
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UUP | |
| Robin Bailie | Newtownabbey
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UUP | |
| Desmond Boal | Belfast Shankill
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UUP | |
| Roy Bradford | Belfast Victoria
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UUP | |
| John Brooke | Lisnaskea
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UUP | |
| Joseph Burns | North Londonderry
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UUP | |
| Thomas Caldwell | Belfast Willowfield
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Ind. Unionist | |
| Joshua Cardwell | Belfast Pottinger
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UUP | |
| John Carron | South Fermanagh
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Nationalist | |
| James Chichester-Clark | South Londonderry
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UUP | |
| Ivan Cooper | Mid Londonderry
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Independent | |
| William Craig | Larne
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UUP | |
| Austin Currie | East Tyrone
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Nationalist | |
| Paddy Devlin | Belfast Falls
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NI Labour | |
| Anne Dickson | Carrick
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UUP | |
| John Dobson | West Down
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UUP | |
| Brian Faulkner | East Down
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UUP | |
| Richard Ferguson | South Antrim
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UUP | |
| Gerry Fitt | Belfast Dock
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Republican Labour | |
| William Fitzsimmons | Belfast Duncairn
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UUP | |
| William Samuel Fyffe | North Tyrone
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UUP | |
| Thomas Gormley | Mid Tyrone
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Nationalist | |
| Lloyd Hall-Thompson | Belfast Clifton
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Ind. Unionist | |
| John Hume | Foyle
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Independent | |
| Basil Kelly | Mid Down
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UUP | |
| Paddy Kennedy | Belfast Central
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Republican Labour | |
| William Kennedy | Belfast Cromac
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UUP | |
| Michael Keogh | South Down
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Nationalist | |
| Herbert Victor Kirk | Belfast Windsor
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UUP | |
| Norman Laird | Belfast St Anne's
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UUP | |
| William Long | Ards
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UUP | |
| Samuel Magowan | Iveagh
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UUP | |
| Robert Dodd McConnell | Bangor
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Ind. Unionist | |
| Basil McIvor | Larkfield
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UUP | |
| John McQuade | Belfast Woodvale
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UUP | |
| Nat Minford | Antrim
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UUP | |
| Robert James Mitchell | North Armagh
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UUP | |
| Ivan Neill | Belfast Ballynafeigh
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UUP | |
| Roderick O'Connor | West Tyrone
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Nationalist | |
| Patrick O'Hanlon | South Armagh
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Independent | |
| Phelim O'Neill | North Antrim
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UUP | |
| Terence O'Neill | Bannside
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UUP | |
| James O'Reilly | Mourne
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Nationalist | |
| Robert Porter | Lagan Valley
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UUP | |
| Walter Scott | Belfast Bloomfield
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UUP | |
| Robert Simpson | Mid Antrim
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UUP | |
| Vivian Simpson | Belfast Oldpark
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NI Labour | |
| James Stronge | Mid Armagh
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UUP | |
| John Taylor | South Tyrone
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UUP | |
| Harry West | Enniskillen
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UUP | |
| Herbert Whitten | Central Armagh
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UUP | |
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.[1]
- 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.[2]
References
- ^ Simon Winchester, "Faulkner faces erosion of Unionist majority", The Guardian, 27 January 1972
- ^ Simon Hoggart, "Another Ulster Unionist quits", The Guardian, 10 October 1972