Politics
The seat had a significant Nationalist majority, but Labour candidates sometimes polled well.
The remainder of contested elections involved candidates of different Nationalist persuasions.
Read more about this topic: South Armagh (Northern Ireland Parliament Constituency)
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“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
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“In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)