UK Elections Info

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Bill Craig

Born: 2 December 1924, Cookstown, Co Tyrone

Died: 25 April 2011

Member of Privy Council of Northern Ireland - 1963

husband of Doris Hilgendorff

Larne Grammar School

Queen's University, Belfast

Solicitor

28 February 1974	Belfast East	Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party	27,817	48.36
10 October 1974	Belfast East	Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party	31,594	59.14
26 November 1977 William Craig resigns as leader of the VUPP and joins the OUP.
3 May 1979	Belfast East	Official Unionist Party	15,930	31.24