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Ulster Unionist Party leadership election, 1971

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1971

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.

Candidates

  • Brian Faulkner - 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'Neill to have demoted him in 1967

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    Ulster Unionist Party leadership election, 1971 Wikipedia
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