Belfast East by-election, 1959
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The Belfast East
by-election
of 19 March 1959 was held after the elevation to the Peerage of Ulster Unionist Party
MP
(MP) Alan McKibbin
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The seat was safe, having been won by Unionists at the United Kingdom general election, 1955
by nearly 14,000 votes
Belfast East (UK Parliament constituency)
Belfast East is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Naomi Long of the Alliance Party, elected in 2010...
by-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
of 19 March 1959 was held after the elevation to the Peerage of Ulster Unionist Party
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MP
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
(MP) Alan McKibbin
Alan McKibbin
Colonel Alan John McKibbin, OBE, JP, DL was a Northern Irish company director and politician. After serving in the First World War, he later took charge of the Army Cadet Force in Northern Ireland, and also ran the family estate agency firm...
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The seat was safe, having been won by Unionists at the United Kingdom general election, 1955
United Kingdom general election, 1955
The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election. It resulted in a substantially increased majority of 60 for the Conservative government under new leader and prime minister Sir Anthony Eden against Labour Party, now in their 20th year...
by nearly 14,000 votes