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...Protestant-controlled municipal corporation that administered the city. Four years later, after direct British rule had begun, Westminster set up elections for a new city council, whose 27 members are chosen on a one-man, one-vote basis. At first none of the three major factions???the Protestant Unionists, the Catholic Socialist Democratic Labor Party (SDLP) and the nonsectarian Alliance Party?won a clear-cut majority, and by common agreement the office of mayor alternated every year between Catholics and Protestants. Then last year, for the first time, the SDLP won a working majority in the council. But the SDLP...
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