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	Northern Ireland Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The logo of the Northern Ireland Assembly is a six flowered linen or flax plant, chosen for the plant's historical economic importance to the region.
		The 1998 Act provides that, unless the Assembly is dissolved early, elections should occur once in every five years on the first Thursday in May. However the second election to the Assembly was delayed by the UK government until 23 November 2003.
		Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly begin with the enacting formula: "BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:".
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Northern_Ireland_Assembly (1922 words)

	Northern Ireland Assembly -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The assembly dissolved on 28 April, 2003 as it was scheduled to, but the elections due the following month were postponed by the (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) UK government and were not held until November.
		The Assembly's 108 members are elected from 18 six member constituencies on the basis of universal adult (A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment) suffrage.
		The Assembly is dissolved shortly before the holding of elections on a day chosen by the (The position of the head of the State Department) Secretary of State, the UK minister with responsibility for Northern Ireland.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/No/Northern_Ireland_Assembly.htm (2007 words)

	Northern Ireland Assembly Election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which at the time of the elections had been suspended for just over a year, were held on Thursday, November 26, 2003.
		The Alliance Party managed to hold all six of its seats despite their vote almost halving, the Women's Coalition and Northern Ireland Unionist Party were wiped out, and the Progressive Unionist Party and UK Unionist Party had just one seat each.
		The biggest surprise of the election came in West Tyrone with the election of the independent Dr. Kieran Deeney, campaigning on the single issue of hospital provision in Omagh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly_Election,_2003 (340 words)

	Northern Ireland Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Northern Ireland Assembly is a 108-member legislative body for Northern Ireland that sits at Stormont with powers devolved to it from the Westminster parliament.
		The assembly was created as part of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the first election to it was held on June 25, 1998.
		The assembly was suspended on October 14, 2002 as problems with the practicalities of power sharing mounted.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/n/no/northern_ireland_assembly.html (236 words)

	Northern Ireland Assembly Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Assembly was first convened in 1998 but attempts to secure its operation on a permanent basis have been frustrated by disagreements between the two biggest unionist parties and Sinn Féin, the largest nationalist party, which is linked to the Provisional IRA.
		The assembly dissolved on 28 April 2003 as it was scheduled to, but the elections due the following month were postponed by the British government and were not held until November.
		The Assembly is dissolved shortly before the holding of elections on a day chosen by the Secretary of State, the British minister with responsibility for Northern Ireland.
	www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Northern_Ireland_Assembly (2181 words)

	Sinn Féin - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sinn Féin won 70% of Ireland's seats (73 in total) in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland parliament at the general election in December 1918 and most of the seats it won were uncontested.
		It went on to increase its domination of the nationalist vote in the 2003 Northern Assembly elections, with Martin McGuinness, judged widely to have been a successful Minister for Education in line to take the post of Deputy First Minister in the Northern Ireland Power-Sharing Executive Committee, should the executive be reformed.
		The robbery of £26.5 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast in December 2004, in which two staff members were forced to participate under threat that their families would be killed if they refused, further scuppered chances of a deal, as PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde blamed the IRA.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sinn_f%e9in.htm (3008 words)

	Sinn Féin article - Sinn Féin Irish language Arthur Griffith Irish Republican partitioned - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is committed to the re-unification of Ireland, replacing the two partitioned states created in 1920, Northern Ireland and what is now called the Republic of Ireland.
		In European Parliament elections held on June 10-11, 2004, Sinn Féin candidates Mary Lou McDonald and Bairbre de Brún were elected as MEP's for Dublin and Northern Ireland, respectively; they are in the grouping European United Left - Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament.
		Northern Ireland (a six county regional state set up under the British Government of Ireland Act 1920 opted out, as the Treaty allowed.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Sinn_F%e9in (1725 words)

	CNN.com - World - Election Watch
		Northern Ireland's new unicameral legislature, the Northern Ireland Assembly, is to be composed of 108 members directly elected by a system of proportional representation.
		In a referendum held on May 22, 1998, the citizens of Northern Ireland voted in favor of the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement by a vote of 71% to 29%.
		This majority vote, coupled with a 94% "yes" vote in a concurrent referendum in the Republic of Ireland, gave the approval for the June 25 vote for the Northern Ireland Assembly.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/northern.ireland.html (129 words)

	Northern Ireland
		Northern Ireland is composed of 26 districts, derived from the boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry and the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone.
		Northern Ireland is an integral part of the United Kingdom (it has 12 representatives in the British House of Commons), but under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act in 1920, it had a semiautonomous government.
		In Dec. 1998 the rival Northern Ireland politicians agreed on the organization and contents of the new coalition government, but in June 1999 the peace process again hit an impasse when the IRA refused to disarm prior to the Assembly of Northern Ireland's new provincial cabinet.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108101.html (1859 words)

	Close Up Foundation Civics Education \| Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The whole of Ireland was governed by the British from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, during which time the British encouraged Protestant settlement in the northeastern corner of the predominantly Catholic country.
		Elections were held on June 25 for the new Northern Ireland Assembly.
		To the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast, September 3, 1998.
	www.closeup.org /nireland.htm (6245 words)

	Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly take place tomorrow
		The election is being held to return six representatives for each of the North's 18 Westminster parliamentary constituencies.
		Unlike elections to the British Parliament, the Assembly election is being held under a form of proportional representation.
		Once the Assembly is in place, it will be the responsibility of the First Minister and his colleagues to force through cuts in spending and wages in order to drive down costs for industry.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/jun1998/ire-j24.shtml (1156 words)

	Northern Ireland Assembly Election, 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which at the time of the elections had been suspended for just over a year, were held on June 25, 1998.
		Six members were elected by Single Transferable Vote from each of Northern Ireland's eighteen Westminster Parliamentary constituencies, giving a total of 108 MLAs, or Members of the Legislative Assembly.
		Although the SDLP won the most first preference votes, the Ulster Unionists won the most seats in the Assembly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly_Election,_1998 (207 words)

	The Northern Ireland Assembly
		The 108 members of the Assembly were elected in June 1998, although political wrangling prevented it from taking up the reins of power until November 1999, and it only ran for 3 months before more political wrangling caused it to be suspended again.
		The Northern Ireland Assembly was first agreed upon as part of the Good Friday Agreement, which was ratified by the political parties on 10 April 1998.
		Elections to the Assembly were held in June 1998, and the Assembly met in shadow format shortly afterwards.
	www.wesleyjohnston.com /users/ireland/today/assembly.html (1214 words)

	Northern Ireland Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, the 1997 Westminster election and the 1996 Forum election are treated by constituency and in great detail.
		Northern Ireland Peace Process - Regularly updated latest news from Northern Ireland and a complete archive of the entire peace process to date.
		Wesley's Ireland - Brief articles on Irish history, a current events section, current and historical maps of Ireland, and a glossary of organisations in Northern Ireland.
	www.ability.org.uk /northern_ireland_government.html (379 words)

	Lagan Valley (constituency) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the UK general election, 2001 the votes for the UUP, Democratic Unionist Party and Alliance Party of Northern Ireland all remained remarkably steady compared to significant shifts elsewhere in the province.
		Then in the Northern Ireland Assembly Election, 2003 Donaldson was allowed to stand, despite at this point having resigned the UUP whip at Westminster.
		The UUP had their best result in the election, in part due to no candidate from either the UK Unionist Party or Northern Ireland Unionist Party defending one of the seats won in Northern Ireland Assembly Election, 1998.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /UK-Parliamentary-constituencies/Lagan-Valley-(constituency).html (678 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Northern Ireland: 1998 - 1999
		April 1998: The 65-page agreement is drawn up, proposing devolution of some central government power to a Northern Ireland assembly.
		September 1998: Assembly is elected, with Ulster Unionists winning the largest share of the vote and 28 seats.
		D'Hondt mechanism is triggered and 10 ministers are nominated to the Northern Ireland Executive.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/539391.stm (593 words)

	The 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly Election Survey
		The Assembly elections of 1998 constituted a new beginning for Northern Ireland because, for the first time since 1973, they were about electing an Assembly, and indirectly an Executive, in the changed context of local politicians being empowered to govern important policy jurisdictions (with other functional areas to follow if cross-community consent proved viable).
		In 1998 it is clear that nationalists voted overwhelmingly for the new institutions, while the unionist community was fairly evenly divided, though with a slight plurality voting in favour of the Agreement.
		Thus one crucial task of this research is to examine changing voting behaviour between the 1998 and 2003 elections, and the effect that this will have on the Assembly, and related institutions.
	www.lse.ac.uk /collections/government/research/resgroups/2003NorthernIrelandAssemblyElectionSurvey.htm (398 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Assembly election 'free of fraud'
		The body that regulates UK elections is set to report that it identified no fraud in last autumn's assembly poll in Northern Ireland.
		Last November's election was the first province-wide poll to be held under the Electoral Fraud Act.
		As a result, the commission is set to reveal that it found the election to be free of fraud.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/3667761.stm (313 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Timeline: Northern Ireland Assembly
		29 November 1999: The Northern Ireland Assembly meets and the d'Hondt mechanism is triggered and 10 ministers are nominated to the Northern Ireland Executive.
		The three other commissioners are: John Grieve, formerly a senior officer in the Metropolitan Police, Lord Alderdice, the first Presiding Officer of the NI Assembly and Joseph Brosnan, former Secretary General of the Department of Justice in Ireland.
		18 October 2004: Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy says he hopes a breakthrough in the political process is just weeks away, although he concedes two days later that the governments still face some "very difficult" issues in bridging the gap between the DUP and Sinn Fein.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/2952997.stm (2625 words)

	Northern Ireland Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Northern Ireland Assembly is a 108-member legislative body for Northern Ireland that sits at Parliament Building of Northern IrelandStormont with powers devolved to it from the Westminster/ parliament.
		The assembly was suspended on October 14, 2002 as Unionists walked out of the Executive after refusing to share power with Sinn Fein whose offices at Stormont had just been raided by Police investigating terrorist intelligence gathering by members of their support staff.
		The Northern Ireland government body tasked with assisting the poorest sections of society was facing questions today on the cost of using a European-based business chief as a part-time board member.
	www.infothis.com /find/Northern_Ireland_Assembly (493 words)

	Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 1998
		Tobias Zywietz' UK Election Statistics Database includes a Northern Ireland Assembly elections page; the complete election results, count-by-count, are available in spreadsheet format from Keith Edkins, and Wilfried Derksen's Elections Around the World site also includes a Northern Ireland page.
		This graph contrasts the 1998 Assembly election result with the elections of the Assembly in 2003, theForum in 1996, the Assembly in 1982, the Constitutional Convention in 1975 and the Assembly in 1973.
		The Assembly and all the associated institutions were suspended from 12 February 2000, and restored to operation on 30 May 2000.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/fa98.htm (2519 words)

	Northern Ireland (Elections) Act 1998
		(4) The initial members shall be returned at an election for the constituencies in Northern Ireland which would return members to the Parliament of the United Kingdom if a general election were held on the date of the passing of this Act.
		(2) A person who is Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant or Lieutenant for a county or county borough in Northern Ireland is disqualified for membership of the Assembly for a constituency comprising the whole or part of the county or county borough.
		A written or oral statement made by a member in or for the purposes of the Assembly (or any committee it may establish) shall be privileged from action for defamation unless it is proved to have been made with malice.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /acts/acts1998/19980012.htm (1583 words)

	Northern Ireland Elections
		2005 elections: Northern Ireland's 18 Westminster seats and the 582 seats on Northern Ireland's 26 district councils were up for re-election on 5 May. The Westminster results are reported here; the local council results here; and predictions submitted in the predictions contest can be foundhere.
		The clickable map, and the links at the end of this paragraph, will take you to a full set of election results since 1996 for the 18 constituencies (ie electoral districts) used for elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly and to the House of Commons at Westminster.
		Each constituency elected six members of the Assembly in 1998 and 2003, and one Member of Parliament in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections (252 words)

	CAIN: Issues: Politics: 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly Election - Party Election Pages
		Election Pages of the Northern Ireland Political Parties
		The following are external links to the web sites and the election pages (if any) prepared by the various political parties contesting the 1998 Assembly Election in Northern Ireland.
		CAIN contains information and source material on the conflict and politics in Northern Ireland.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/elect98a.htm (140 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Players assess election fallout
		Last-ditch moves to reach a unionist-republican agreement before the election proved unsuccessful, so the parties went into the poll against the background of a deadlocked political process.
		The 1998 Stormont administration - once dubbed the "Humpty Dumpty assembly" because of its instability - will now be little more than a phantom memory for the politicians.
		Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern have been assessing the situation with Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy, who is set to hold talks with the parties.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/3248364.stm (771 words)

	CAIN: Issue - Elections: 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly Election
		Voting for the Assembly Election takes place on 25 June 1998 in Northern Ireland.
		Electors will be able to vote for as many or as few candidates as they choose by placing a '1' against their first preference candidate, a '2' against their second preference, and so on as far down the list as they wish to go.
		Counting of votes is scheduled to begin on 26 June 1998 and it is likely to take a few days before the last result is declared.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/election/candidates98.htm (910 words)

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