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IRA guerrilla Sands wins Northern Ireland by election
Bobby Sands, jailed IRA hunger striker, defeated Harry West by 1 446 votes in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, taking 30 492 votes amid 86.8 percent turnout. Though elected, he cannot take his seat in Parliament, as he remains on a hunger strike seeking political prisoner status.
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Enniskillen
Northern Ireland
Bobby Sands
Britain
House of Commons
Sands
Harry West
Fermanagh
South Tyrone
Margaret Thatcher
Irish Republican Army
Provisional
Republic