Keith Buchanan
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Keith Buchanan (born 11 May 1973) is a Unionist politician from
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representing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Buchanan was elected as a
Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. ...
(MLA) for Mid Ulster in 2016. In November 2021, he was called "disgraceful" by a fellow MLA for attempting to link the
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to dissident Irish republicans.
SDLP The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) ( ga, Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has eight members in the Northern Irela ...
MLA
Justin McNulty Justin McNulty MLA (born 15 November 1974) is an Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician, a former Gaelic football manager, and a former player at senior level for the Armagh county team. He has sat in the Northern Irelan ...
accused Buchanan of "stirring up the pot of sectarian tensions". He has been married to Sandra Buchanan since 1998 and they have one daughter, Loren (born 2003). He is also an active member of the
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1973 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Democratic Unionist Party MLAs Northern Ireland MLAs 2016–2017 Northern Ireland MLAs 2017–2022 {{Northern-Ireland-MLA-stub