" Laws that make the sentiment of the acting Voters in Mid-Ulster re-elected Bernadette Devlin on June 18, 1970, giving her a considerably increased majority. Throughout her campaign she was bitterly opposed by both a pro-Paisley Unionist candidate and a Greet Tory; a 'National Socialist' withdrew on the das of the electoin.
Bernadette fought an extremely principled election campaign. She made it clear that she was a socialist and asked people to vote for Connolly's Workers Republic; she made it plain that she was opposed to both the Orange and the Green Tories and the reactionary influence of the Catholic Church on the people.
Despite all this it cannot be said that all the people who voted for her did so because she was a socialist. They did so because they felt that she was the only candidate who could beat the Unionist. But the effect of her election campaign and her period as an MP has been on the whole a healthy one. It is not uncommon to hear young Irish workers in particular calling at meetings for a 32 county Workers Republic and for workers control in the factories. Ofcourse she has antagonised many older people. One old lady I met in the desolate Lough shore area told me that if Bernadette ever criticised the Catholic Church again she would campaign against her.
Campaign meetings were held in all parts of the constituency in the two weeks preceding the election. Despite the jeers and taunts of the Paisleyites, Bernadete fought a courageous Around 3 a.m. on the night of the e a large crowd, mainly of Devlin suppor had gathered outside the school in Om where the count was going on, waiting the result. Most of them were quite cor that Bernadette had won and were wait for the victory parade. After the result declared and Bernadette was back with ncreased majority, they all gathered u outside the courthouse. As someone r a Starry Plough over the court house, Bernadette raised her fist and began to the Internationale. Spontaneously larg parts of the crowd raised their fists and joined in humming and singing the snatches of words they knew. Mid-Ulster had re-elected its SOCIALIS Steve O' Dwyer