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, and most elections in the late 1950s to the early 1970s. 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.
