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  Encyclopedia: Parliament of Northern Ireland
The Parliament of Northern Ireland was bicameral, consisting of a House of Commons with 52 seats, and an indirectly-elected Senate with 26 seats.
The Governor of Northern Ireland was the Crown representative in Northern Ireland.
The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland was the head of the Government of Northern Ireland, appointed by the Governor of Northern Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
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 Articles - Parliament of Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The British monarch was initially represented as head of state by a Lord Lieutenant, although this was replaced by the office of Governor of Northern Ireland from December 12, 1922.
As at Westminster, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland was the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons, always the Ulster Unionist Party.
Independent Unionist candidates and the Northern Ireland Labour Party were usually accused of being splitters or dupes of the Nationalists.
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 ipedia.com: Parliament of Northern Ireland Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Parliament of Northern Ireland was bicameral, consisting of:
The Government of Ireland Act prescribed that elections to the House of Commons be by the single transferable vote, though the Parliament was given power to alter the electoral system from three years after its first meeting.
The PR system was the subject of criticism from grassroots Unionists but because the three year period ended during the Labour government of 1924, the government decided not to provoke the known nationalist sympathies of many Labour backbenchers and held the second election on the same basis.
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