North Antrim - Ian Paisley jnr, East Antrim: Sammy Wilson. Press Eye. ... South Antrim - Paul Girvan, North Belfast - Nigel Dodds, East Belfast - Gavin Robinson, South Belfast - Emma Little-Pengelly, Lagan Valley: Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Strangford - Jim Shannon, DUP, Democratic Unionist Party, Sydney Anderson, Upper Bann, Jonathan Bell, Strangford, Maurice Bradley, East Londonderry, Paula Bradley, Belfast North, Joanne Bunting, Belfast East, Keith Buchana, Mid Ulster, Thomas Buchanan, West Tyrone, Pam Cameron, South Antrim, Arlene Foster, Nigel Dodds, Ian Paisley, Emma Little Pengelly, cand
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a centre-right to right-wing unionist political party in Northern Ireland. Protestant fundamentalist leader Ian Paisley founded the DUP in 1971, during the Troubles, and led the party for the next 37 years. Now led by Arlene Foster, it is the party with the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly and is the fifth-largest party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Following the 2017 general election, the party has agreed to support a Conservative minority government on a case-by-case basis on matters of mutual concern. The DUP evolved from the Protestant Unionist Party and has historically strong links to the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, the church Paisley founded. The DUP is socially conservative. It is anti-abortion, opposes same-sex marriage, and sees itself as defending Britishness and Ulster Protestant culture against Irish nationalism. It is also Eurosceptic and backs the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. During the Troubles, the DUP opposed attempts to resolve the conflict that would involve sharing power with Irish nationalists or republicans, and rejected attempts to involve the Republic of Ireland in Northern Irish affairs. It campaigned against the Sunningdale Agreement of 1973, the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985, and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. In the 1980s, the party was involved in setting up the paramilitary movements Third Force and Ulster Resistance. For most of the DUP's history, the Ulster Unionist Party was the largest unionist party in Northern Ireland, but by 2004 it had overtaken the UUP in terms of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Following the St Andrews Agreement in October 2006, the DUP agreed to enter into power-sharing devolved government in Northern Ireland with Sinn Féin. Despite reports of divisions within the party, a majority of the party executive voted in favour of power-sharing in March 2007. However, the DUP's
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