Andrew Hunter - Definition

Andrew Hunter (born January 8, 1943) is a United Kingdom politician, a Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Basingstoke, and a member of the Orange Order.

He was first elected to Basingstoke as a Conservative in the 1983 election, and had been deputy chairman of the right-wing Monday Club. In 2002 he withdrew from the Conservative Party, in order to fight elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly as a candidate of the Democratic Unionist Party. The elections were held in November 2003, and he failed to gain his seat. On December 10, 2004 it was announced that he had joined the DUP Parliamentary Group in the House of Commons, the first MP for a mainland seat to sit for a Northern Ireland-based party.

He has announced he will not contest the next UK general election. As editor of the magazine "Right Now!", Hunter has also been linked to the Freedom Party (UK) and the Springbok Club.

Andrew Hunter (1814-?) was a noted Methodist Preacher, sometimes referred to as the "The Father of Methodism in Arkansas." Andrew Hunter United Methodist Church is named for him.

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