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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox election Шаблон:Politics of Northern Ireland The 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election was held on Wednesday, 7 March 2007. It was the third election to take place since the devolved assembly was established in 1998. The election saw endorsement of the St Andrews Agreement and the two largest parties, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin, along with the Alliance Party, increase their support, with falls in support for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

The 2007 election was held using STV and 18 multi-seat districts, each electing 6 members.

Background

At the 2003 election the DUP became the largest party. As it opposed the Belfast Agreement, there was no prospect of the assembly voting for the First and deputy First Ministers. Therefore, the British Government did not restore power to the Assembly and the elected members never met. Instead there commenced a protracted series of negotiations. During these negotiations a legally separate assembly, known as The Assembly consisting of the members elected in 2003 was formed in May 2006[1] to enable the parties to negotiate and to prepare for government.

Eventually, in October 2006, the governments and the parties, including the DUP, made the St Andrews Agreement and a new transitional assembly came into effect on 24 November 2006.[2] The British government agreed to fresh elections and the transitional assembly was dissolved on 30 January 2007, after which campaigning began.[3]

The process

The election was conducted using the single transferable vote applied to six-seat constituencies, each of which corresponds to a UK parliamentary seat. The First Minister and Deputy First Minister were chosen by the largest parties from the two different political designations. Parties who won seats were then allocated places on the executive committee in proportion to their seats in the Assembly using the D'Hondt method.

The campaign

The major parties standing were the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) on the Unionist side, and Sinn Féin and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) on the Nationalist side.

The largest cross-community party, the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, contested the election in 17 of 18 constituencies. Smaller parties also included the Progressive Unionist Party, the Green Party and the UK Unionist Party. Some independent Unionists also stood.

Among the other parties that stood, the Conservatives nominated nine and there were six candidates for the Workers' Party. Also there were four candidates for Make Politicians History and two for the Socialist Party. Six Republican Sinn Féin-aligned candidates also stood. As the party had chosen not to register as a political party with the electoral commission, the party name did not appear alongside its candidates on ballot papers.[4]

One of the key issues in the election was which two political parties would gain the largest number of Assembly seats. The St Andrews Agreement stated that the First Minister will be chosen from the largest party of the largest political designation and the Deputy First Minister from the largest party from the second largest political designation;[5] however, the actual legislation states that the largest party shall make the nomination regardless of designation.[6]

Results

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Result by constituencies
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(in order of first preference vote)

The DUP remained the largest party in the Assembly, making significant gains from the UUP.

Sinn Féin made gains from the SDLP and was the largest party among the Nationalists.

The only other Assembly Party to make gains was the liberal Alliance Party (winning seven seats, a gain of one), while the Progressive Unionist Party and independent health campaigner Dr Kieran Deeny retained their single seats, and were joined by the Green Party, which won its first Assembly seat, and increased its first preference votes fourfold from 2003.

The UK Unionist Party lost its representation in the Assembly. They had contested 12 seats, with Robert McCartney standing in six of them.[7]

Overall, Unionist parties were collectively down 4 seats, Nationalist parties were collectively up 2 seats, and others were up 2 seats.

The election was notable as it saw the first Chinese-born person to be elected to a parliamentary institution in Europe: Anna Lo of the Alliance Party.[8][9]

Шаблон:Election results

Distribution of seats by constituency

Party affiliation of the six Assembly members returned by each constituency. The first column indicates the party of the Member of the House of Commons (MP) returned by the corresponding parliamentary constituency in the 2005 United Kingdom general election under the first-past-the-post voting method.

Шаблон:Nowrap 2005 Constituency Northern Ireland Assembly seats
Total style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | Gained
by
Formerly
held by
APNI DUP PUP SDLP Sinn
Féin
Green UUP Шаблон:Abbr
Шаблон:Party name with colour North Antrim 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1
Шаблон:Party name with colour East Antrim 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Alliance Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"| 3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"| 2
Шаблон:Party name with colour South Antrim 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Alliance Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |SF style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |UUP
Шаблон:Party name with colour Belfast North 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"| 2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1
Шаблон:Party name with colour Belfast West 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|5 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |SF style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |DUP
Шаблон:Party name with colour Belfast South 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Alliance Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |Alliance style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |UUP
Шаблон:Party name with colour Belfast East 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Alliance Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Progressive Unionist Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |DUP style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |UUP
Шаблон:Party name with colour North Down 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Alliance Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Green Party of Northern Ireland"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|2 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |Green style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |UKU
Шаблон:Party name with colour Strangford 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Alliance Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|4 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |DUP style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | UUP
Шаблон:Party name with colour Lagan Valley 6 rowspan=3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Alliance Party"| 1 rowspan=3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party" | 3 rowspan=3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin" | 1 rowspan=3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party" | 1 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | SF style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | SDLP
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | DUP style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | UUP
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | DUP style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | UUP
Шаблон:Party name with colour Upper Bann 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|2
Шаблон:Party name with colour South Down 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1
Шаблон:Party name with colour Newry and Armagh 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1
Шаблон:Party name with colour Fermanagh & South Tyrone 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |DUP style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |UUP
Шаблон:Party name with colour West Tyrone 6 rowspan=2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party" | 2 rowspan=2 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin" | 3 1 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | SF style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | SDLP
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | DUP style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | UUP
Шаблон:Party name with colour Mid Ulster 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|1
Шаблон:Party name with colour Foyle 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|2
Шаблон:Party name with colour East Londonderry 6 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic Unionist Party"|3 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/SDLP"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Sinn Féin"|1 style:"background;Шаблон:Party shading/Ulster Unionist Party"|2 style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | DUP style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | UUP
Шаблон:Sort 108 7 36 1 16 28 1 18 1
Шаблон:Sort + 1 + 6 – 2 + 4 + 1 − 9 –1 UKU
Шаблон:Sort 108 6 30 1 18 24 0 27 1 5 UKU 2 NIWC
Шаблон:Sort 108 6 20 2 24 18 0 28 3 5 UKU 2 NIWC

Executive Committee seats

Parties who won seats are allocated places on the Executive Committee using the D'Hondt method and under the St Andrews agreement the largest party gets the right to nominate the first minister and the largest party perceived to be from "the other side" nominates the deputy first minister. Despite the name these offices are in fact of equal right. Note that they are both ministers in the same department (Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister). Using this system, the executive appointed in 2007 was as follows:

Department Minister Party
First Minister style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Ian Paisley[10] Шаблон:Party shortname
Deputy First Minister style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Martin McGuinness[10] Шаблон:Party shortname
Enterprise, Trade and Investment style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Nigel Dodds Шаблон:Party shortname
Finance & Personnel style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Peter Robinson Шаблон:Party shortname
Regional Development style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Conor Murphy[11] Шаблон:Party shortname
Education style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Caitríona Ruane[11] Шаблон:Party shortname
Employment and Learning style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Sir Reg Empey Шаблон:Party shortname
Environment style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Arlene Foster Шаблон:Party shortname
Culture, Arts & Leisure style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Edwin Poots Шаблон:Party shortname
Health, Social Services & Public Safety style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Michael McGimpsey Шаблон:Party shortname
Agriculture style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Michelle Gildernew[11] Шаблон:Party shortname
Social Development style="background:Шаблон:Party color" |     Margaret Ritchie[11] Шаблон:Party shortname

There are two junior ministers in OFMDFM who are, at present, Jeffery Donaldson (DUP) and Gerry Kelly (SF). In April 2010, the Department of Justice was formed, being led by David Ford from the Alliance Party. This is the Alliance Party's first ministerial role.

Opinion polls

An opinion poll by Ipsos MORI, published in The Belfast Telegraph on 1 March 2007, reported the voting intentions of those who intended to vote and had decided which party to vote for:[12]

Party Percentage Actual Vote
Шаблон:Party name with colour 25 30
Шаблон:Party name with colour 22 26
Шаблон:Party name with colour 20 15
Шаблон:Party name with colour 16 15
Шаблон:Party name with colour 9 5
Шаблон:Party name with colour 3 2
Шаблон:Party name with colour 1 0.5
Шаблон:Party name with colour 1 1.5
Шаблон:Party name with colour 1 0.6
Шаблон:Party name with colour 1 3

MLAs who lost their seats at the election

Notes: Berry and Ennis were originally elected as DUP candidates, Hyland was originally elected as a Sinn Féin candidate.

MLAs who stood down at the election

Patricia Lewsley stood down prior to the dissolution of the assembly

Шаблон:Incomplete list

MLAs deselected by their party

As a sitting MLA, Norah Beare defected from the UUP to the DUP, and is therefore unselected rather than deselected.Шаблон:Clarify

Following their de-selection, both Ennis and Hyland unsuccessfully sought election under the UKUP and independent labels respectively.

Шаблон:Incomplete list

MLAs deceased since 2003 election

See also

Шаблон:Wikinews

Шаблон:Northern Ireland Assembly constituencies

References

Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Manifestos

Шаблон:Northern Ireland elections Шаблон:United Kingdom local elections, 2007