Traditional Unionist Voice

Traditional Unionist Voice
Party leader	Jim Allister
founding	December 7, 2007
Headquarters	139 Holywood Road Belfast Northern Ireland
Alignment	Unionism EU skepticism Sociopolitical conservatism
Colours)	Red  white blue
British House of Commons	0/650
Northern Ireland Assembly	1/90
Local government in Northern Ireland	12/462
Website	www.tuv.org.uk

Traditional Unionist Voice ( TUV ) ( Irish Glór Traidisiúnta Aontachtach ) is a unionist party in Northern Ireland . The party was founded on December 7, 2007 as a split from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Reason for the separation was dissatisfaction with the agreement of St Andrews from October 2006 , in which the DUP had agreed under certain conditions in the future government of Northern Ireland with the Irish Republican Sinn Fein to cooperate. The party's founder and chairman is Jim Allister , a former DUP member of the European Parliament and one of 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly since 2011 .

Politically, the TUV represents unionist positions and rejects the agreement made in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and again in the St. Andrews Agreement in 2006 that the parties represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly must be proportionally represented in the Government of Northern Ireland ("mandatory coalition") .

Election results

The election results in the following table refer to Northern Ireland (also for the all-British elections). General elections were carried out consistently by majority voting , elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 and elections to the European Parliament by preferential suffrage .

year	choice	Share of votes	Seats
2009	European elections 2009	13.5%	0/3
2010	General election 2010	3.9%	0/18
2011	Northern Ireland Assembly 2011	2.5%	1/108
2014	European elections 2014	12.1%	0/3
2015	General election 2015	2.3%	0/18
2016	Northern Ireland Assembly 2016	3.4%	1/108
2017	Northern Ireland Assembly 2017	2.6%	1/90
2017	General election 2017	0.4%	0/18
2019	European elections 2019	10.8%	0/3
2019	General election 2019	not participated	0/18

Web links

• Party's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ New unionist group to be launched, BBC News, December 7, 2007
2. ^ North Antrim results , ARK