Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973

28 June 1973

All 78 seats to the Northern Ireland Assembly 40 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Brian Faulkner	Gerry Fitt	Ian Paisley
Party	UUP	SDLP	DUP
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	31	19	8
Popular vote	258,790	159,773	78,228
Percentage	35.8%	22.1%	10.8%
Swing	35.8%	22.1%	10.8%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Oliver Napier	William Craig
Party	Alliance	Vanguard
Leader since	1972	9 February 1972
Leader's seat	Belfast East	North Antrim
Last election	N/A	N/A
Seats won	8	7
Seat change	8	7
Popular vote	66,541	75,709
Percentage	9.2%	11.5%
Swing	9.2%	11.5%

Percentage of seats gained by each of the party.

Chief Executive before election

New position

Elected Chief Executive

Brian Faulkner

Northern Ireland 1973–98

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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:

	Votes	Vote %	Seats	Seats %
UUP (pro-assembly)	182,696	25.3	24	30.8
SDLP	159,773	22.1	19	24.4
DUP	78,228	10.8	8	10.3
UUP (anti-assembly)	76,094	10.5	7	9
Vanguard	75,709	11.5	7	9
Alliance	66,541	9.2	8	10.3
NI Labour	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
Nationalist	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 Constitution	202	0.0	0
Independent Loyalist	189	0.0	0
Communist Party	123	0.0	0

All parties listed.

Votes summary

Popular vote

UUP pro-white paper			25.3%
SDLP			22.1%
UUP anti-white paper			10.54%
Democratic Unionist			10.83%
Vanguard			10.48%
Alliance			9.21%
Labour			2.59%
West Belfast Loyalist			2.34%
Independent Unionist			1.9%
Republican Clubs			1.81%
Nationalist			0.87%
Independent			0.57%
Other			1.45%
Total Ulster Unionist			35.83%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

UUP pro-white paper			30.77%
SDLP			24.36%
UUP anti-white paper			8.97%
Democratic Unionist			10.26%
Vanguard			8.97%
Alliance			10.26%
Labour			1.28%
West Belfast Loyalist			3.85%
Independent Unionist			1.28%
Total Ulster Unionist			39.74%

Source

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

Elections and referendums in Northern Ireland

NI general elections	1921 1925 1929 1933 1938 1945 1949 1953 1958 1962 1965 1969

Ad-hoc elections	1973 1975 1982 1996

Assembly elections	1998 2003 2007 2011 2016

European elections	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Local elections	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2011 2014

Referendums	1973 1975 1998 2011

UK general elections	2001 2005 2010 2015

See also: Elections in the Kingdom of Ireland Elections in Ireland as part of the UK UK elections

(1972 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1973 (→ 1974)

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Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973

Votes summary

Seats summary

See also

Source