The Ulster Liberal Party was a liberal political party in Northern Ireland, supporting a unionist position and linked to the British Liberal Party. It nominated candidates in the UK general election, 1929, but the party then became inactive.
The party was re-founded by Albert McElroy in 1956, as the Ulster Liberal Association.[1] From 1961 to 1969 the party had one seat in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, when Sheelagh Murnaghan held one of the four seats allocated to Queen's University, Belfast.[1] In 1967, it was represented on the committee of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.
After 1970 it suffered the loss of many of its members to the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.[1] Its last political contest was the 1985 local government election,[2] after which its last remnants joined the Labour '87 group. The Liberal Democrats, successor to the British Liberal Party, later formed links with the Alliance Party. There is also a small, somewhat inactive, branch of the Liberal Democrats in Northern Ireland.
References
- ^ a b c Fionnuala O'Connor, "Pride of the Ulster Liberals", The Guardian, 16 September 1993
- ^ Abstracts on Organisations - 'U', CAIN Web Service
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