William John "Willie" Thompson (26 October 1939 – 12 December 2010)Former Unionist MP Thompson dies, The Belfast Telegraph. was a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Tyrone from 1997 to 2001. He was one of the UUP members opposed to the Good Friday Agreement. He was the local MP when the Omagh bombing took place in his constituency on 15 August 1998.
Elections in the 1970s and 1980s He had previously been elected from the Mid Ulster constituency as an Ulster Unionist for the 1973 and 1982 Assemblies and the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in 1975.Mid Ulster 1973–82BBC Election 2001 Candidate Profile: Willie Thompson In 1983 he sought election to Westminster in the Mid Ulster constituency, however he finished fourth with 7,066 votes, losing to the DUP's Willie McCrea.Mid Ulster, 1983–1992
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CAIN Archive Maiden Speech : House of Commons 26 June 1997 House of Commons debate : Omagh – 2 Sept 1998
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