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Jim Nicholson (Northern Ireland Politician)
James Frederick Nicholson (born 29 January 1945) is a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency), Northern Ireland from 1989 to 2019. Prior to his election to the European Parliament, Nicholson had been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newry and Armagh (UK Parliament constituency), Newry and Armagh from 1983 until his defeat in 1986 Northern Ireland by-elections, the by-elections of 1986, when he and others resigned and stood again to protest against the Anglo-Irish Agreement; Nicholson lost his seat to Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), the only seat to be lost. Career Nicholson was born in 1945 in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Educated locally, he later worked as a farmer on the family farm. He joined the Ulster Unionist Party in the early 1970s and was the Secretary/Organiser of Mid-South Armagh Unionist Association from 1973 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland (European Parliament Constituency)
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; Ulster-Scots: ') was a constituency of the European Parliament from 1979 until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020. It elected three MEPs using the single transferable vote, making it the only constituency in the United Kingdom which did not use party-list proportional representation. Boundaries The constituency covered the entirety of Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. It was the only constituency in the United Kingdom the boundaries of which remained unchanged from the first direct election in 1979 until the UK left the European Union in 2020. Members of the European Parliament {, class="wikitable" !Year !colspan=2, Member !Party !colspan=2, Member !Party !colspan=2, Member !Party , - , 1979 , rowspan=6 bgcolor=, , rowspan=5, Ian Paisley , rowspan=6, Democratic Unionist , rowspan=5 bgcolor=, , rowspan=5, John Hume , rowspan=5, , rowspan=7 bgcolor=, , rowspan=2, John Taylor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |