Northern Ireland Forum
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 Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
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This article is part of a series on the politics and government of Northern Ireland |
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Members |
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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:

Party | Votes | Vote % | List seats | Top-up seats | Total seats | Seats % | |
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UUP | 181,829 | 24.2 | 28 | 2 | 30 | 27.3 | |
SDLP | 160,786 | 21.4 | 19 | 2 | 21 | 19.1 | |
DUP | 141,413 | 18.8 | 22 | 2 | 24 | 21.8 | |
Sinn Féin | 116,377 | 15.5 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 15.5 | |
Alliance | 49,176 | 6.5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6.4 | |
UK Unionist | 27,774 | 3.7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2.7 | |
PUP | 26,082 | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.8 | |
Ulster Democratic | 16,715 | 2.2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.8 | |
NI Women's Coalition | 7,731 | 1.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.8 | |
Labour coalition | 6,425 | 0.9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.8 | |
Green (NI) | 3,647 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
NI Conservatives | 3,595 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Workers' Party | 3,530 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ulster Independence | 2,125 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Democratic Left | 1,215 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Democratic Partnership | 1,046 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Independent McMullan | 927 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Independent Chambers | 567 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Natural Law | 389 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Independent DUP | 388 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Independent Arthur Templeton | 350 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Independent Voice | 204 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Communist Party | 66 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ulster Christian Democrats | 31 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 745,296 |
All parties shown.
Note: The Democratic Unionist Party was listed on the ballot paper as "Democratic Unionist Party DUP Ian Paisley"
List candidates
Top-up candidates were elected from lists supplied by each party. The highest-placed candidates who had not already won election through a constituency won the top-up seats. In the table below, the top-up candidates elected through the regional list are shown in bold, while candidates elected in constituencies are shown in italics. Candidates in normal type were not elected.
Party | Regional list candidates[1] | |
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UUP | David Trimble, John Taylor, John Gorman, Antony Alcock, Jack Allen, Fred Parkinson, Josias Cunningham, Dennis Rogan, James Cooper, Jim Nicholson | |
SDLP | John Hume, Seamus Mallon, Eddie McGrady, Joe Hendron, Jonathan Stephenson, Dorita Field, Margaret Ellen, Patricia Walsh, Marietta Farrell, Rosaleen Hughes, Anne McQuillan | |
DUP | Ian Paisley, Peter Robinson, William McCrea, Nigel Dodds, Sammy Wilson, Gregory Campbell, Eric Smyth, Ruth Allen, Harry Smith, William McClure | |
Sinn Féin | Lucilita Bhreatnach, Pat Doherty, Rita O'Hare, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Bairbre de Brún, Mitchel McLaughlin, Gearóid Ó hEára, Joe Cahill, Dodie McGuinness | |
Alliance | John Alderdice, Seamus Close, Sean Neeson, Steve McBride, Eileen Bell, Anne Gormley, Elizabeth McCaffrey, Mary Clark-Glass, Susan O'Brien, Wendy Watt | |
UK Unionist | Robert McCartney, Cedric Wilson, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Patrick Roche, Ronnie Crawford, Alan Field, Valerie Kinghan, Stephen Nicholl, Graeme Jardin, Freda Woods | |
PUP | Hugh Smyth, David Ervine, Billy Hutchinson, William Smith, David Kirk, Patricia Laverty, Dawn Purvis, Edward Kinner, Gusty Spence, Winston Churchill Rea | |
Ulster Democratic | 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 | Monica McWilliams, Pearl Sagar, Anne Campbell, Kathleen Fearon, Sheila Fairon, Joan Cosgrove, Diane Greer, Brenda Callaghan, Felicity Huston, Mairead Abraham | |
Labour coalition | Malachi Curran, Hugh Casey, Mark Langhammer, John McLaughlin, Lucy Simpson, Peter Hadden, Margaret Lawrence, Fionnuala Harbinson, Michael Duffy, David Morrison | |
Green (NI) | Paddy McEvoy, Peter Emerson, Jenny Jones, Nuala Ahern, Molly Scott, Robin Harper | |
NI Conservatives | Barbara Finney, Esmond Birnie | |
Workers' Party | Tom French, John Lowry, Marian Donnelly, Ellen Rush, Margaret Smith, Tommy Owens, Brendan Heany, Eilish Duffy, Vivian Hutchinson, Michael McCorry | |
Ulster Independence | Hugh Ross, Josephine Fulton-Challis, Sandra Jones, Walter Millar, David Kerr, Dierdre Speer-White, Ken Kerr, Donal Casey, Kenneth McClinton, Norman McLelland | |
Democratic Left | Mary McMahon, Seamus Lynch, Patrick John McClean, Gerry Cullen, Veronica McEneaney, Frank McElroy, Teresa McVeigh, Jean Craig, Mary Vernon, Monica Hynds | |
Democratic Partnership | David Bleakley, Paul Smyth, Maureen McCaughan, Adrian McKinney, Pearl Snowden, Edwin Sloan, Charles McKee, William Lewis, Erin Tunney | |
Independent McMullan | Oliver McMullan, John Robb, John McDowell, Wesley H. Holmes, William Dunbar, William Cunning, Helen Craig, Philip Dugdale, Charles Maunsell, Sinead McMullan | |
Independent Chambers | Alan Chambers, Joseph Coggle, Mary Chambers, James Arbuthnot, Robert Irvine, Violet Chambers, Linda Chambers, William Chambers, Ruth Patty, Pearl Brown | |
Natural Law | James Anderson, Thomas Mullins, Richard Johnson, John Patrick Lyons, John Small | |
Independent DUP | Thomas Henry O'Brien, William Baxter, Cecil Braniff, Tara Martin Alexandra, Stuart William O'Brien | |
Independent Arthur Templeton | N/A | |
Independent Voice | Andrew Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Bernard McGrath, Susan McGrath, Edward Phillips, Trevor Richards, Christopher Carter, Fidelma Carter, Betty Carter, Susan Carter | |
Communist Party | N/A | |
Ulster Christian Democrats | N/A |