Ulster Unionist Party leadership election, 1971

The Ulster Unionist Party leadership election of 1971 was caused by the resignation of James Chichester-Clark, after he had failed to persuade the British Government to provide his government with more resources to quell the growing civil unrest.

Candidates

Brian Faulkner - Minister for Development and long term leadership hopeful
William Craig - MP for Larne who had been a critic of the leadership since he believed Terence O'Neill to have demoted him in 1967

Results

Faulkner won easily by 26 votes to 4

Sources

Ireland since 1939, Henry Patterson (2001, Oxford University Press)
A history of the Ulster Unionist Party, Graham Walker (2004, Manchester University Press)

Ulster Unionist Party

Leaders	Saunderson Long Carson Craigavon Andrews Brookeborough O'Neill Chichester-Clark Faulkner West Molyneaux Trimble Empey Elliott Nesbitt

Deputy Leaders	McCusker Taylor Empey & Beggs Kennedy McCallister Currently vacant

Chairman	Rogan Cooper Campbell Empey

President (Merged with Chairman in 2008)	Hamilton Craig J.M. Andrews Dixon Brooke Graham Andrews J.G. Cunningham Clark Cunningham Smyth Rogan White

General Secretary (Chief Executive)	Gibson Bates Hungerford Douglas Bailie Hutton Millar Wilson Boyd Patterson Rea Corry Wilson C. McCusker

Leadership elections	1969 1971 1979 1995 (Mar) 1995 (Sep) 2000 2004 2005 2010 2012

Organisational structure	Ulster Unionist Council (Party Executive Constituency Association District Branches) Ulster Womens Unionist Council Young Unionists

History and related organisations	Progenitor: Irish Unionist Alliance Allies: Labour Unionists/Liberal Unionist/Conservatives Offshoot: Vanguard (1973-78) Electoral alliance: UCUNF (2009)

Other topics	Chief Whip Election results Electoral history

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