Northern Ireland Forum

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Northern Ireland 1973-1998
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Northern Ireland Assembly (1973) Constitutional Convention (1975) Northern Ireland Assembly (1982) Northern Ireland Forum (1996)
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See also
Anglo-Irish Agreement New Ireland Forum Northern Ireland by-elections, 1986 Northern Irish 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:

Party		Votes	Vote %	Constituency seats	Top-up seats	Total seats	Regional list candidates[1]
	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
	DUP [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	Luciletta Breatnach, 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 Party	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"

[edit] External links

• Official site

[edit] References

1. ^ 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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