Northern Ireland Forum

30 May 1996

All 110 seats to the Northern Ireland Forum 56 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	David Trimble	Ian Paisley	John Hume
Party	UUP	DUP	SDLP
Leader since	8 September 1995	30 September 1971	28 November 1979
Leader's seat	Upper Bann	North Antrim	Foyle
Seats won	30	24	21
Seat change	30	24	21
Popular vote	181,829	141,413	160,786
Percentage	24.2%	18.8%	21.4%
Swing	24.2%	18.8%	21.4%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Gerry Adams	John Alderdice	Robert McCartney
Party	Sinn Féin	Alliance	UK Unionist
Leader since	13 November 1983	3 October 1987	1995
Leader's seat	West Belfast	East Belfast
Seats won	17	7	3
Seat change	17	7	3
Popular vote	116,377	49,176	27,774
Percentage	15.5%	6.5%	3.7%
Swing	15.5%	6.5%	3.7%

Percentage of seats gained by each of the party.

Chief Executive before election

None

Elected Chief Executive

None

Northern Ireland 1973–98

This article is part of a series on the 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
1973 1975 1982 1996
Members
1973 1975 1982 1996
See also
Anglo-Irish Agreement New Ireland Forum Northern Ireland by-elections, 1986 Northern Ireland sovereignty referendum, 1973
Other countries Atlas

The Northern Ireland Forum (formally called the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue) was a body set up in 1996 as part of a process of negotiations that eventually led to the Belfast (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 of party-list proportional representation. There was also a "topup" of two seats 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.

Results

The results of the election were:

	Votes	Vote %	Constituency seats	Top-up seats	Total seats	Regional list candidates^[1]
UUP	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
SDLP	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	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	Lucilita Bhreatnach, Pat Doherty, Rita O'Hare, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Bairbre de Brún, 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
PUP	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, Joe English, Tommy 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 (NI)	3,647	0.49	0	0	0	Paddy McEvoy, Peter Emerson, Jenny Jones, Nuala Ahern, Molly Scott, Robin Harper
NI Conservatives	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, Ken 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 Party	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"

Votes summary

Popular vote

Ulster Unionist			24.17%
SDLP			21.37%
DUP			18.8%
Sinn Féin			15.47%
Alliance			6.54%
United Kingdom Unionist			3.69%
Progressive Unionist			3.47%
Ulster Democratic			2.22%
Women's Coalition			1.03%
Labour			0.85%
Independent			0.3%
Other			2.09%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

Ulster Unionist			27.27%
SDLP			19.09%
DUP			21.82%
Sinn Féin			15.45%
Alliance			6.36%
United Kingdom Unionist			2.73%
Progressive Unionist			1.82%
Ulster Democratic			1.82%
Women's Coalition			1.82%
Labour			1.82%

References

↑ 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.

Bibliography

Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Act 1996
The 1996 Forum Elections and the Peace Process by Nicholas Whyte

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