Sandra Overend is an Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Party

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 politician in Northern Ireland

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 who was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly

Northern Ireland Assembly

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 in 2011.

Overend was born near Stewartstown

Stewartstown

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, County Tyrone

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 and educated at Cookstown High School

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 and the University of Ulster

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. She lives near Bellaghy

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, County Londonderry

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. She is married with three children; her father-in-law is former Vanguard politician Robert Overend

Robert Overend

Robert Overend is a farmer and former Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Overend was a prominent member of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party and the Orange Order in the mid-1970s. In 1975, he proposed that the Order formed a new, united unionist party, but this was rejected...

. She worked in accountancy before taking up employment as office manager for her father Billy Armstrong

Billy Armstrong

Billy Armstrong is an Ulster Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.He served as Assembly Member for Mid Ulster from 1998 until 2011, when he was succeeded by his daughter, Sandra Overend. He was a member of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, the Committee for Enterprise, Trade &...

 MLA in 1998. She is a member of the Select Vestry of Ballyscullion Parish Church (Church of Ireland). Overend is the Ulster Unionist Party Women's Development Officer.

Overend stood unsuccessfully in Mid Ulster

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 at the 2010 UK general election, taking 11% of the vote and fourth place.