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'''Ernest Baird''' (1930 – September 2003) was a [[politician]] in [[Northern Ireland]]. Baird was born in [[County Donegal]]
in the [[Irish Free State]] but moved with his family to [[Belfast]] at an early age.<ref>((cite web|url=http://meathpeacegroup.org/events/?p=18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723181307/http://meathpeacegroup.org/events/?p=18 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-23 |title=Meath Peace Group Public Talks 1993 - 2010 » Parading Disputes - Is There a Better Future? |date= |accessdate=2020-04-28))</ref>

A [[pharmacist]] and political [[unionist (Ireland)|unionist]], Baird became the deputy leader of the [[Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party]].  He was elected at the [[1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election]] for [[Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Assembly constituency)|Fermanagh and South Tyrone]], and won a seat in the same constituency on the [[Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention]].

When [[William Craig (Northern Ireland politician)|William Craig]], the leader of Vanguard, proposed forming a [[coalition government]] with the [[nationalist (Ireland)|nationalist]] [[Social Democratic and Labour Party]], Baird led the majority of Vanguard in leaving to form the [[United Ulster Unionist Movement]].

Baird became the leader of the new grouping, which initially pursued a policy of uniting all unionist groups to form a new party.  When this proved impossible, it instead constituted itself as the [[United Ulster Unionist Party]] (UUUP), again with Baird as the leader.  He then became a key member of the [[United Unionist Action Council]]

Baird stood for the UUUP in [[Fermanagh and South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)|Fermanagh and South Tyrone]] at the [[1979 United Kingdom general election|1979 general election]], but won only 17% of the vote, taking fourth position in the poll.  At the [[1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election]], he fared even less well, taking only 2,022 first preference votes.

Sometime after this poor performance, the UUUP was dissolved.  Baird then confined his politics to the [[Orange Order]], while building up his "Baird's Chemists" chain that became one of Northern Ireland's leading chemists chain, before being bought over in 2011.

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*[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/cfst.htm Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1973-1982]
*[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/uorgan.htm CAIN Web Service: Abstracts on Organisations - 'U']
*"[http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/imported/article886419.ece Veteran unionist Baird dies after long illness]", ''[[Belfast Telegraph]]''

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