Ulster Liberal Party

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The Ulster Liberal Party was a liberal political party in Northern Ireland, supporting a unionist position and linked to the British Liberal Party. It nominated candidates in the UK general election, 1929, but the party then became inactive.

The party was re-founded by Albert McElroy in the late 1950s. From 1961 to 1969 the party had one seat in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, when Sheelagh Murnaghan held one of the four seats allocated to Queen's University, Belfast.

After 1970 it suffered the loss of many of its members to the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. Its last political contest was the 1985 local government elections, after which its last remnants joined the Labour '87 group. The Liberal Democrats, successor to the British Liberal Party, later formed links with the Alliance Party.

In 1967, it was represented on the committee of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.

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v • d • e Defunct political parties of Northern Ireland

Unionist/Loyalist	Commonwealth Labour Party · Protestant Unionist Party · Ulster Constitution Party · Ulster Democratic Party · Ulster Popular Unionist Party · Ulster Progressive Unionist Association · Ulster Unionist Labour Association · Unionist Party of Northern Ireland · United Ulster Unionist Council · United Ulster Unionist Party · Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party · Volunteer Political Party

Nationalist/Republican	All Ireland Anti-Partition League · Anti-Partition of Ireland League · Federation of Labour · Fianna Uladh · Irish Independence Party · National Democrats · Nationalist Party · Official Sinn Féin · People's Democracy · Red Republican Party · Saor Éire · Socialist Republican Party · Unity

Left wing^#	Belfast Labour Party · Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) · Communist Party of Northern Ireland · Democratic Left · Independent Labour Group · Independent Socialist Party · Labour Coalition · Labour Party of Northern Ireland · League for a Workers Republic · Northern Ireland Labour Party · Republican Labour Party · Socialist Labour Alliance · United Labour Party · Workers League

Ulster nationalism	British Ulster Dominion Party · Ulster Independence Movement · Ulster Independence Party · Ulster Movement for Self-Determination

Others	Democratic Partnership · Northern Ireland Women's Coalition · Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Ulster Liberal Party

^#Excluding those left-wing parties which were avowedly nationalist/republican or unionist/loyalist.