Which leadership election did Donaldson lose?
1998 UUP Leadership
2003 DUP Leadership
2010 DUP Leadership
May 2021 DUP
Answer
In May 2021, Edwin Poots won the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leadership election to replace Arlene Foster. Poots defeated Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by 19 votes to 17. The election came at a time of internal divisions within the party over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which governs trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
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