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List of MPs for constituencies in Northern Ireland (1992–1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ117468480 ↗
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This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Northern Irish constituencies for the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1992 to 1997). There are 17 such constituencies, thirteen of which were represented by Unionists and four by Nationalists. It includes MPs elected at the 1992 United Kingdom general election, held on 1 May 1997.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of MPs for constituencies in Northern Ireland (1992–1997)” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, constituencies and Northern, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, constituencies and Northern is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of MPs for constituencies in Northern Ireland (1992–1997)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.