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:
| Party | Votes | Vote % | Seats | Seats % | gain | loss | net | |
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| 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 | 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 | |||||
| Nationalist (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 | |||||
| Ind. 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 | |||||
- All parties listed.
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