Dawn Purvis was born on 22 October 1966 and is a Northern Irish former unionist politician, who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast East from 2007 to 2011.
12 Facts About Dawn Purvis
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Dawn Purvis was previously the leader of the Progressive Unionist Party from 2007 to 2010.
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Dawn Purvis stood for the party in the 1996 Northern Ireland Forum election in Belfast South and then in the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election in Belfast South, here taking 271 votes.
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Dawn Purvis served as director of the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast.
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Dawn Purvis took a degree in Women's Studies, Social Policy and Social Anthropology and began working full-time for the party.
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Dawn Purvis stood in Belfast South in the 2001 UK general election, finishing in sixth place with a total of 1112 votes.
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In 2006, Dawn Purvis was appointed to the Northern Ireland Policing Board.
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Dawn Purvis's appointment was later criticised by the Democratic Unionist Party, because of the PUP's links with the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force.
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In January 2007, Dawn Purvis succeeded the late David Ervine as leader of the PUP and MLA for Belfast East.
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Dawn Purvis was re-elected in the constituency at the 2007 Assembly election on the tenth and final round of counting.
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In 2011 Dawn Purvis left politics and became the Northern Ireland Programme Director with Marie Stopes International.
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In June 2010, Dawn Purvis resigned as leader, and as a member, of the PUP because of its relationship with the UVF and the murder of Bobby Moffet which was attributed to that group by the Independent Monitoring Commission.