Northern Ireland Assembly election, 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 UUP under Brian Faulkner, the SDLP and the Alliance Party 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:

	Votes	Vote %	Seats	Seats %
Ulster Unionist (pro-assembly)	182,696	25.3	24	30.8
Social Democratic and Labour	159,773	22.1	19	24.4
Democratic Unionist	78,228	10.8	8	10.3
Ulster Unionist (anti-assembly)	76,094	10.5	7	9
Vanguard Progressive Unionist	75,709	11.5	7	9
Alliance (NI)	66,541	9.2	8	10.3
Labour (NI)	18,675	2.6	1	1.3
West Belfast Loyalist Coalition	16,869	2.3	3	3.8
Independent Unionist	13,755	1.9	1	1.3
Republican Clubs	13,064	1.8	0
National Party NI	6,270	0.9	0
Independent	4,091	0.6	0
Loyalist	2,752	0.4	0
Independent pro-White Paper	2,008	0.3	0
Independent Nationalist	2,000	0.3	0
Republican Labour	1,750	0.2	0
Liberal	811	0.1	0
National Front	591	0.1	0
Ulster Constitutional Loyalist	202	0.0	0
Independent Loyalist	189	0.0	0
Communist	123	0.0	0