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5 days ago · He took the seat vacated by independent unionist Lady Sylvia Hermon despite a challenge from DUP MLA Alex Easton. This time its three way fight between Mr Farry, Alex Easton, who’s now standing ...
4 days ago · Alliance performed strongly, garnering almost 17% of the vote and winning the North Down seat vacated by Independent Lady Sylvia Hermon. For the first time ever, Northern Ireland elected more Nationalists than Unionists (though Unionist parties were still well ahead in vote share).
4 days ago · One of these was in fact a retention of the North Down seat by the sitting MP, Lady Sylvia Hermon, after she parted company with the UUP and stood as an independent; the other, much more dramatically, was the victory of the Alliance Party in East Belfast, defeating Northern Ireland's First Minister, Peter Robinson.
3 days ago · Dr Farry topped the poll in 2019 to replace independent MP Lady Sylvia Hermon who held the seat from 2001 until her retirement. The Alliance man pipped his then DUP rival to the post with a majority of 2,968 votes in a time of bitter post-brexit divisions.
5 days ago · The only difference amongst them is that Lady Sylvia Hermon was elected on an independent ticket in the General Election in 2017. All the rest are the result of leaving the party whose platform they got elected on.
1 day ago · Succeeded her husband J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson as MP after he became a member of the House of Lords after being raised to the peerage as Viscount Davidson. Daughter of Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson. In 1963 she was created a life peer as Baroness Northchurch, of Chiswick in the County of Middlesex.
5 days ago · This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 2005 general election, held on 5 May 2005.
