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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ New unionist group to be launched, BBC News, December 7, 2007
- ^ North Antrim results , ARK