Traditional Unionist Voice
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Traditional Unionist Voice
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| Leader | Jim Allister |
| Chairman | Ivor McConnell |
| President | William Ross |
| Founded | 7 December 2007 |
| Headquarters | 139 Holywood Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Ideology |
British unionism Euroscepticism Social conservatism Anti-St Andrews Agreement |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| European affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | None |
| Colours | Red, white, and blue |
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| Website | |
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Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland founded on 7 December 2007, as an anti-St Andrews Agreement splinter group from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Its first and current leader is Jim Allister who, until 2009, sat as an independent Member of the European Parliament, having been elected for the DUP in 2004. In the 2009 European elections Allister lost his seat when he stood as a TUV candidate. In June 2008, it was announced that former Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP William Ross had been made party president.
The founding principles of the TUV were:
The party's first electoral contest was the Dromore local government by-election for Banbridge District Council which took place on 13 February 2008 with its candidate being Dromore solicitor, Keith Harbinson. He took 19.5% of the first preference votes cast.
TUV was the last party to be eliminated, and more of its votes transferred to the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) than to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), enabling the former to retain its seat.
At a Craigavon Borough Council local by-election in Lurgan on 14 January 2010, the TUV won 19.3% of first preference votes. The UUP candidate, Jo-Anne Dobson, won with 63.9%. The DUP did not contest the seat.
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