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Title
Your No. 1 Vote Herron for East Belfast
Object Name
Political poster
Maker
Vanguard (Primary maker)
Date Made
1973
1973
Place Made
Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast
Belfast
Description
Loyalist poster printed blue on white. Loyalist Coalition Candidate T. Herron for East Belfast Assembly Elections 1973. UDA Vice-Chairman stood as a Vanguard candidate in East Belfast and received 2,480 first preference votes but was not elected. Less than three months later was murdered in what many believed was an internal UDA dispute.
Materials
paper
Place Collected

Date Collected
1973
1973
Catalogue Number
BELUM.O337.1973
Copyright
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