Northern Ireland Forum

Northern Ireland Forum
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	First Party	Second Party	Third Party
‹ 1982 • members members • 1998 ›
Northern Ireland Forum All 110 seats to the Northern Ireland Forum
30 May 1996

Leader	David Trimble	John Hume	Ian Paisley
Party	Ulster Unionist	Social Democratic and Labour	Democratic Unionist
Leader since	8 September 1995	28 November 1979	30 September 1971
Leader's seat	Upper Bann	Foyle	North Antrim
Last election	N/A	N/A	N/A
Seats won	30	21	24
Seat change	N/A	N/A	N/A
Popular vote	181,829	160,786	141,413
Percentage	24.2%	21.4%	18.8%
	Fourth Party	Fifth Party

Leader	Gerry Adams	John Alderdice
Party	Sinn Féin	Alliance
Leader since	13 November 1983	3 October 1987
Leader's seat	Belfast West	Belfast East
Last election	N/A	N/A
Seats won	17	7
Seat change	N/A	N/A
Popular vote	116,377	49,176
Percentage	15.5%	6.5%
Incumbent Chief Executive None Chief Executive-Elect None To Be Determined

Interim bodies
Northern Ireland 1973-1998
This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Northern Ireland

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See also
Anglo-Irish Agreement New Ireland Forum Northern Ireland by-elections, 1986 Northern Ireland sovereignty referendum, 1973
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The Northern Ireland Forum, or formally the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue was a body set up in 1996 to conduct the negotiations that eventually led to the Belfast Agreement (or the Good Friday Agreement) in 1998.

The forum was elected, with five members being elected for each Westminster Parliamentary constituency for Northern Ireland, under the D'Hondt method. There was also a "topup" of two for the ten parties polling most votes; this ensured that two loyalist parties associated with paramilitary groups were represented. See members of the Northern Ireland Forum for a complete list.

The results of the election were:

	Votes	Vote %	Constituency seats	Top-up seats	Total seats	Regional list candidates¹
Ulster Unionist	181,829	24.17	28	2	30	David Trimble, John Taylor, John Gorman, Antony Alcock, Jack Allen, Fred Parkinson, Josias Cunningham, Dennis Rogan, James Cooper, Jim Nicholson
Social Democratic and Labour	160,786	21.36	19	2	21	John Hume, Seamus Mallon, Eddie McGrady, Joe Hendron, Jonathan Stephenson, Dorita Field, Margaret Ellen, Patricia Walsh, Marietta Farrell, Rosaleen Hughes, Anne McQuillan
Democratic Unionist ^[1]	141,413	18.80	22	2	24	Ian Paisley, Peter Robinson, William McCrea, Nigel Dodds, Sammy Wilson, Gregory Campbell, Eric Smyth, Ruth Allen, Harry Smith, William McClure
Sinn Féin	116,377	15.47	15	2	17	Lucilita Bhreatnach, Pat Doherty, Rita O'Hare, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Bairbre De Brun, Mitchel McLaughlin, Gearóid Ó hEára, Joe Cahill, Dodie McGuinness
Alliance	49,176	6.54	5	2	7	John Alderdice, Seamus Close, Sean Neeson, Steve McBride, Eileen Bell, Anne Gormley, Elizabeth McCaffrey, Mary Clark-Glass, Susan O'Brien, Wendy Watt
UK Unionist	27,774	3.69	1	2	3	Robert McCartney, Cedric Wilson, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Patrick Roche, Ronnie Crawford, Alan Field, Valerie Kinghan, Stephen Nicholl, Graeme Jardin, Freda Woods
Progressive Unionist	26,082	3.47	0	2	2	Hugh Smyth, David Ervine, Billy Hutchinson, William Smith, David Kirk, Patricia Laverty, Dawn Purvis, Edward Kinner, Gusty Spence, Winston Churchill Rea
Ulster Democratic	16,715	2.22	0	2	2	Gary McMichael, John White, David Adams, Joseph English, Thomas George Kirkham, David Nicholl, Robert Girvan, Thomas English, Ester McCracken English, Elizabeth Cathcart McIlwaine
NI Women's Coalition	7,731	1.03	0	2	2	Monica McWilliams, Pearl Sagar, Anne Campbell, Kathleen Fearon, Sheila Fairon, Joan Cosgrove, Diane Greer, Brenda Callaghan, Felicity Huston, Mairead Abraham
Labour Coalition	6,425	0.85	0	2	2	Malachi Curran, Hugh Casey, Mark Langhammer, John McLaughlin, Lucy Simpson, Peter Hadden, Margaret Lawrence, Fionnuala Harbinson, Michael Duffy, David Morrison
Green (NI)	3,647	0.49	0	0	0	Paddy McEvoy, Peter Emerson, Jenny Jones, Nuala Ahern, Molly Scott, Robin Harper
Conservative	3,595	0.48	0	0	0	Barbara Finney, Esmond Birnie
Workers' Party	3,530	0.47	0	0	0	Tom French, John Lowry, Marian Donnelly, Ellen Rush, Margaret Smith, Tommy Owens, Brendan Heany, Eilish Duffy, Vivian Hutchinson, Michael McCorry
Ulster Independence	2,125	0.47	0	0	0	Hugh Ross, Josephine Fulton-Challis, Sandra Jones, Walter Millar, David Kerr, Dierdre Speer-White, Kenneth Kerr, Donal Casey, Kenneth McClinton, Norman McLelland
Democratic Left	1,215	0.16	0	0	0	Mary McMahon, Seamus Lynch, Patrick John McClean, Gerry Cullen, Veronica McEneaney, Frank McElroy, Teresa McVeigh, Jean Craig, Mary Vernon, Monica Hynds
Democratic Partnership	1,046	0.14	0	0	0	David Bleakley, Paul Smyth, Maureen McCaughan, Adrian McKinney, Pearl Snowden, Edwin Sloan, Charles McKee, William Lewis, Erin Tunney
Independent McMullan	927	0.12	0	0	0	Oliver McMullan, John Robb, John McDowell, Wesley H. Holmes, William Dunbar, William Cunning, Helen Craig, Philip Dugdale, Charles Maunsell, Sinead McMullan
Independent Chambers	567	0.08	0	0	0	Alan Chambers, Joseph Coggle, Mary Chambers, James Arbuthnot, Robert Irvine, Violet Chambers, Linda Chambers, William Chambers, Ruth Patty, Pearl Brown
Natural Law	389	0.05	0	0	0	James Anderson, Thomas Mullins, Richard Johnson, John Patrick Lyons, John Small
Independent DUP	388	0.05	0	0	0	Thomas Henry O'Brien, William Baxter, Cecil Braniff, Tara Martin Alexandra, Stuart William O'Brien
Independent Arthur Templeton	350	0.05	0	0	0	N/A
Independent Voice	204	0.03	0	0	0	Andrew Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Bernard McGrath, Susan McGrath, Edward Phillips, Trevor Richards, Christopher Carter, Fidelma Carter, Betty Carter, Susan Carter
Communist	66	0.01	0	0	0	N/A
Ulster Christian Democrats	31	0.01	0	0	0	N/A

All parties shown.

^ The party was listed on the ballot paper as "Democratic Unionist Party DUP Ian Paisley"

1 Votes summary
2 Seats summary
3 External links
4 References

Votes summary

Popular vote

Ulster Unionist			24.17%
SDLP			21.37%
DUP			18.8%
Sinn Féin			15.47%
Alliance			6.54%
United Kingdom Unionist			3.69%
Progressive Unionist			3.47%
Ulster Democratic			2.22%
Womens' Coalition			1.03%
Labour			0.85%
Independent			0.3%
Other			2.09%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

Ulster Unionist			27.27%
SDLP			19.09%
DUP			21.82%
Sinn Féin			15.45%
Alliance			6.36%
United Kingdom Unionist			2.73%
Progressive Unionist			1.82%
Ulster Democratic			1.82%
Womens' Coalition			1.82%
Labour			1.82%

External links

References

^ Candidates elected in constituencies are shown in italics. Candidates elected through the regional list are shown in bold. See http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/96cands.htm.

Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Act 1996
The 1996 Forum Elections and the Peace Process by Nicholas Whyte

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Votes summary

Seats summary

External links

References