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South Down By-Election Re-election

Great Britain · Politics / UU Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1986

John Enoch Powell23 January 1986

South Down · Politics / UU Party

Wins the South Down by-election after Unionist MPs resign their seats to campaign against the Anglo-Irish Agreement.

Names involved

John Enoch Powell

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