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David Anthony Overend (born 1932 or 1933) is an artist and former loyalist politician in Northern Ireland. Born in Birstall, West Yorkshire, Overend painted from his youth, before meeting and marrying a woman from Belfast, moving to the city and continuing his artwork.〔"(David Overend – Archive )", White Image〕 He soon became a leading activist in the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP). Known as the party's leading member in the Shankill Road area, he stood for the NILP in Belfast Shankill at the Northern Ireland general election, 1965, taking 32.6% of the vote and again in 1969, when he dropped back to 15.4%.〔(Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Boroughs: Belfast )〕 He also stood in the UK general election, 1966 in Belfast North, taking 42.6% of the vote, the party's second-best result of the election.〔"(North Belfast 1950–1970 )", Northern Ireland Elections〕 In 1977, Overend resigned from the NILP along with colleague Jim McDonald, and joined Hugh Smyth's new Independent Unionist Group, later to become the Progressive Unionist Party.〔Aaron Edwards, ''A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party'', p.219〕 He and Smyth shared a vision of creating a political programme for working-class loyalist communities,〔Ed Moloney, ''Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland'', p.396〕 and Overend wrote many of the new party's policy documents, and included many ideas from the NILP.〔〔Aaron Edwards and Stephen Bloomer, "Democratising the Peace in Northern Ireland: Progressive Loyalists and the Politics of Conflict Transformation", ''Conflict Transformation Papers'', vol.12, p.13〕 In 1979, Overend accompanied Smyth, McDonald and John Irvine on a tour of Canada in 1979, and then met with United States State Department officials, after Smyth and McDonald were refused American visas.〔"(Alderman Hugh Smyth )", Northern Ireland Office (1980)〕 He stood for Belfast City Council for his new party at the Northern Ireland local elections, 1981, but was not elected.〔"(The Local Government Elections 1973–1981: Belfast )", Northern Ireland Elections〕 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Overend」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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