The UK Unionist Party (UKUP) was a small unionist political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2008 opposed to the Good Friday Agreement. It was nominally formed by Robert McCartney formerly of the Ulster Unionist Party to contest a by-election the North Down by-election 1995 and then further constituted to contest the 1996 elections for the Northern Ireland Forum. McCartney had previously contested the 1987 general election as an independent using the label Real Unionist.
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