Margaret Ritchie was elected as SDLP MP for South Down on May 7th 2015 with 18077 votes, taking 42.3% of the vote. She was appointed Minister for Social Development at Stormont on 8th of May 2007 and ...

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After an absence of two and half years, the voice of Democratic Irish Nationalism will return to Westminster when Margaret Ritchie takes her seat in the Lords. The former SDLP leader tells Gary ...

FORMER SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie is set to take up a seat in the House of Lords. A spokesman for the SDLP - which is opposed to members sitting in the unelected chamber - last night confirmed ...

The former SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie has said she remains "SDLP to the core" even though she has had to quit the party to become a peer. Ms Ritchie was leader of the SDLP between 2010 and 2011 ...

Former SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie: the political landscape in South Down is much changed since the 2015 Westminster election – Sinn Féin made considerable gains in the constituency in March ...

PREDICTIONS that Sinn Féin would cut into the SDLP vote in South Down failed to materialise with Margaret Ritchie holding on for another term.

The SDLP has laid limpet-like claim to South Down since Eddie McGrady first won the seat for the party in 1987. That's because the seat was so hard-won in the first place. Now Sinn Féin believes ...

When the South Down MLA John McCallister suggested that the SDLP's "problems" over the naming of a playground after IRA member Raymond McCreesh could cost Margaret Ritchie hundreds of "soft ...

Margaret Ritchie has announced that she is to step down as leader of the SDLP. The South Down MP was facing a challenge to her leadership from the party's deputy leader, Patsy McGlone.