Ulster Unionist Party leadership election, 1971
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The Ulster Unionist Party
leadership election of 1971 was caused by the resignation of James Chichester-Clark
, after he had failed to persuade the British Government to provide his government with more resources to quell the growing civil unrest.
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...
leadership election of 1971 was caused by the resignation of James Chichester-Clark
James Chichester-Clark
James Dawson Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, PC, DL was the penultimate Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and eighth leader of the Ulster Unionist Party between 1969 and March 1971. He was Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for South Londonderry for 12 years beginning at the by-election...
, after he had failed to persuade the British Government to provide his government with more resources to quell the growing civil unrest.
Candidates
- Brian FaulknerBrian FaulknerArthur Brian Deane Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, PC was the sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from March 1971 until his resignation in March 1972...
- Minister for Development and long term leadership hopeful - William Craig - MP for Larne who had been a critic of the leadership since he believed Terence O'NeillTerence O'NeillTerence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party...
to have demoted him in 1967
Sources
- Ireland since 1939, Henry Patterson (2001, Oxford University Press)
- A history of the Ulster Unionist Party, Graham Walker (2004, Manchester University Press)