Pat Doherty
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| Vice President of Sinn Féin | |
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In office 1988–2009 |
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| President | Gerry Adams |
| Succeeded by | Mary Lou McDonald |
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Member of Parliament for West Tyrone |
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Assumed office 7 June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | William Thompson |
| Majority | 10,060 (26%) |
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Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for West Tyrone |
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In office 25 June 1998 – June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | new office |
| Succeeded by | Declan McAleer |
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18 July 1945 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Sinn Féin |
| Website | Pat Doherty MP |
Patrick Doherty (born 18 July 1945) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, currently the abstentionist Member of Parliament for West Tyrone. He was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the Assembly constituency of the same name from June 1998 to June 2012. Doherty served as Vice President of Sinn Féin from 1988 to 2009, when Mary Lou McDonald became the party's new Vice President.
Doherty was born in Glasgow; his parents were from County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. He moved to Donegal in 1968, shortly before the Troubles broke out across the Irish border. He has been an abstentionist Sinn Féin Member of Parliament of the British parliament for West Tyrone since 2001, as well as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly from the 1998 elections until 2012. He has also stood for election in the Republic of Ireland, in the constituency of Donegal North-East in 1989, 1996 (a by-election) and 1997, and also in the Connacht–Ulster constituency in the EU elections in 1989 and 1994.
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