Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973

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Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973
All 78 seats to the Northern Ireland Assembly
28 June 1973
		First party	Second party	Third party
Leader		Brian Faulkner	Gerry Fitt	Ian Paisley
Party		Ulster Unionist	Social Democratic and Labour	Democratic Unionist
Leader since		23 March 1971	21 August 1970	30 September 1971
Leader's seat		South Down	Belfast North	North Antrim
Last election		N/A	N/A	N/A
Seats won		31	19	8
Seat change		N/A	N/A	N/A
Popular vote		258,790	159,773	78,228
Percentage		35.8%	22.1%	10.8%
		Fourth party	Fifth party
Leader		William Craig	Oliver Napier
Party		Vanguard	Alliance
Leader since		9 February 1972	1972
Leader's seat		North Antrim	Belfast East
Last election		N/A	N/A
Seats won		7	8
Seat change		N/A	N/A
Popular vote		75,709	66,541
Percentage		11.5%	9.2%
Incumbent Chief Executive New position Chief Executive-elect Brian Faulkner

Northern Ireland 1973-1998
This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Northern Ireland
Interim bodies
Northern Ireland Assembly (1973) Northern Ireland Executive (1974) Constitutional Convention (1975) Northern Ireland Assembly (1982) Northern Ireland Forum (1996)
Elections
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Members
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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 1973 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly took place following the publication of the British government's white paper Northern Ireland Constitutional Proposals which proposed a 78-member Northern Ireland Assembly, elected by proportional representation.

A cross-community coalition of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) under Brian Faulkner, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland was agreed in November, and following the Sunningdale Agreement, a Power Sharing Executive was established from 1 January 1974. After opposition from within the UUP and the Ulster Workers Council Strike, the executive and assembly collapsed in May 1974.

The election results were:

All parties listed.

Votes summary

Seats summary

See also

• Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1973

Source

• http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/fa73.htm

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