From the 1982 Assembly Elections, a leaflet from John Clenaghan, Patrick Ritchie and James McDonald who were running for The SDLP in South Antrim. James McDonald was elected. The Result is available here
1982 Assembly Elections Leaflet from John Clenaghan, Patrick Ritchie, James McDonald- SDLP- South Antrim January 10, 2017
Leaflet from Gerard Carr -The Workers’ Party – 1982 Assembly Elections Belfast South November 1, 2016
From the 1982 Assembly Elections a leaflet from Gerard Carr of The Workers’ Party running in Belfast South. He polled 933 votes and missed out on a seat.
Benny (Benedict) McElwee -Sinn Fein- 1982 Stormont Elections December 21, 2009
This Poster was sent in by a kind reader , who writes …..
It is about as early as you will find from modern day Sinn Féin. It’s from one of the initiatives I think it’s 1982 but it’s definitely the Jim Prior organised one for a Stormont Assembley/Forum which SF fought on an abstenion policy. I think the SDLP ended up the same too.
The candidate is Benny (Benedict) Mcelwee from Bellaghy, the brother of Hunger Striker, Thomas and cousin of Francis Hughes. Second on the paper is Danny Morrison of Ballot box and Armalite fame.
It was for the mid-ulster constituency and this one was the South Derry version. Up until this election, most full on Republicans had stood on a H-Blocks ticket and for the short lived Irish Independence Party so it’s as early a PSF poster as you’ll find.
Ironic indeed the ‘Smash Stormont’ legend at the top, I think the DUP ran with ‘Smash Sinn Féin’ in the same campaign.
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