Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 31st March 1966, Westminster elections were held in Northern Ireland. All seats were won by the Ulster Unionist Party, with the exception of West Belfast, where Gerry Fitt won the seat for the Republican Labour Party.

Sinn Féin newspaper, The United Irishman, reported an "Election Rout of Republicans":

"No matter how tinted the glasses through which one might look, the results of the 1966 Imperial Elections in the Six Counties show a rout of the Republicans."

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