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List of Democratic Unionist Party MPs (2005–2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2023
Entity authorityQ6568760 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2005–2010).

It includes both MPs elected at the 2005 general election, held on 5 May 2005, and those subsequently elected in by-elections.

The list is sorted by the name of the MP, and MPs who did not serve throughout the Parliament are italicised. New MPs elected since the general election are noted at the bottom of the page.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of Democratic Unionist Party MPs (2005–2010)” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, Democratic and Unionist, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, Democratic and Unionist is the immediate research focus.
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