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Information on politics by country is available for every Country, including both De jure and De facto independent The Northern Ireland Assembly ( Irish: Tionól Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann Semmlie) is the devolved Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Six members were elected by Single Transferable Vote from each of Northern Ireland's eighteen Westminster Parliamentary constituencies, giving a total of 108 MLAs, or Members of the Legislative Assembly. Single transferable vote (STV is a preferential Voting system designed to minimize Wasted votes and provide Proportional representation The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords
Results
The result was (first preference votes only):
| Party | Leader | Seats | % of seats | Number | % of vote | Rank | |
| Ulster Unionist | David Trimble | 28 | 25. The Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or in a historic sense simply the Unionist Party William David Trimble Baron Trimble (born 15 October 1944 is a Northern Irish Politician from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster 9 | 172,225 | 21. 28 | 2 | |
| Social Democratic and Labour | John Hume | 24 | 22. The Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP; Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre is one of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland John Hume (born 18 January 1937) is a former Politician in Northern Ireland, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party 2 | 177,963 | 21. 99 | 1 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 20 | 18. The Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP) is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Ian Richard Kyle Paisley (born 6 April 1926 styled The Rt Hon 5 | 145,917 | 18. 03 | 3 | |
| Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 18 | 16. Sinn Féin () is a political party in Ireland. The current party led by Gerry Adams was formed following a split in January 1970 Gerry Adams, MLA, MP (Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh born 6 October 1948 is an Irish Republican politician and abstentionist Westminster 7 | 142,858 | 17. 65 | 4 | |
| Alliance | John Alderdice | 6 | 5. The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI is a Political party in Northern Ireland. John Thomas Alderdice Baron Alderdice (b March 28, 1955) is a Northern Ireland politician 6 | 52,636 | 6. 5 | 5 | |
| UK Unionist | Robert McCartney | 5 | 4. The UK Unionist Party ( UKUP) was a small unionist Political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2008 Robert Law McCartney QC (born 24 April 1936) often known as Bob is a Northern Ireland barrister and former leader of the UK Unionist 6 | 36,541 | 4. 52 | 6 | |
| Independent Unionist | 3 | 2. In Politics, an independent is a Politician who is not Affiliated with any Political party. 8 | 24,339 | 3. 0 | 7 | ||
| Progressive Unionist | Hugh Smyth | 2 | 1. See Ulster Progressive Unionist Association, for the political group founded in 1938 The Progressive Unionist Party ( PUP) is a small Cllr Hugh Smyth is a former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party. 9 | 20,634 | 2. 55 | 8 | |
| NI Women's Coalition | Monica McWilliams | 2 | 1. The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition was a non-sectarian political party in Northern Ireland. Monica McWilliams (born 28 April 1954) is a Northern Ireland academic and politician 9 | 13,019 | 1. 61 | 9 | |
| Ulster Democratic | Gary McMichael | 0 | 8,651 | 1. The Ulster Democratic Party ( UDP) was a small loyalist Political party in Northern Ireland. Gary McMichael (born 1969 is the son of former Ulster Defence Association leader John McMichael and was the leader of the now defunct Ulster Democratic Party 07 | 10 | ||
| Independent | 0 | 5,392 | * | ||||
| Labour (NI) | Malachi Curran | 0 | 2,729 | 0. In Politics, an independent is a Politician who is not Affiliated with any Political party. See also Northern Ireland Labour Party The Labour Party of Northern Ireland (LPNI was formed in 1985 by a group around Paddy Devlin, a former Malachi Curran is a Politician in Northern Ireland. Curran was elected to Down District Council in 1993 for the Social Democratic and Labour Party 34 | 11 | ||
| Workers' Party | 0 | 1,989 | 0. The Workers Party of Ireland (in Irish Páirtí na nOibrithe, though its logo translates it erroneously as Páirtí na nOibri) is a left wing Irish 25 | 12 | |||
| Conservative | William Hague | 0 | 1,835 | 0. The Conservatives in Northern Ireland is a name given to the wing of the Conservative and Unionist Party of the United Kingdom that operates in Northern Ireland William Jefferson Hague (born 26 March 1961 is a British Politician. 23 | 13 | ||
| Ulster Independence | Hugh Ross | 0 | 1,227 | 0. The Ulster Independence Movement was an Ulster nationalist Political party founded (as the Ulster Independence Committee) on 17th November 1988 Hugh Ross (born 1922 is a Presbyterian minister and member of the Orange Order, who was previously the leader of the now defunct Ulster Independence Movement 15 | 17 * | ||
| Natural Law | James Anderson | 0 | 832 | 0. The Natural Law Party was founded in 1992 in the United States by a group of educators business leaders and lawyers in Fairfield, Iowa who practiced Transcendental 10 | 18 | ||
| Socialist Party | Joe Higgins | 0 | 789 | 0. The Socialist Party (in Irish Páirtí Sóisialach) is a Political party active in Ireland Joe Higgins (born 1 May 1949 is an Irish Socialist Party representative 10 | 19 | ||
| Green Party | 0 | 710 | 0. The Green Party in Northern Ireland originated in the early 1980s partly as a result of the Green Movement which was sweeping across Western Europe and partly because of the massive 09 | 20 | |||
| Total | 108 | 100. 0 | 786,132 | 100. 0 | |||
All parties with over 500 votes listed.
- ¹ Independent candidates were ranked 14, 15 and 16; other independents won fewer than 500 votes.
Details
Although the SDLP won the most first preference votes, the Ulster Unionists won the most seats in the Assembly. This has been attributed to several reasons, including:
- Slightly differential turnouts across the province, with the result that in the more staunchly unionist east fewer votes were required to elect an MLA than in the SDLP's heartlands in the west.
- The Ulster Unionists proved better at "vote balancing" whereby in the rounds of transfers their candidates were less likely to be eliminated earlier on.
- The Ulster Unionists proved better at attracting transfers from other parties (and due to the vote balancing mentioned above, were more likely to be a position to benefit from this)
See also
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