Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1973
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This is a list of Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1973.
All members elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly at the 1973 election
are listed and grouped by party.
Ulster Unionist Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Democratic Unionist Party
Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
All members elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly at the 1973 election
Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973
-Seats summary:-Source:* http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/fa73.htm...
are listed and grouped by party.
Ulster Unionist PartyUlster Unionist PartyThe Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
(31 seats)
- Norman Agnew
- Austin ArdillAustin ArdillCaptain Robert Austin Ardill MC was a former Northern Irish unionist politician.Ardill was born in Belfast and educated at Coleraine Academical Institution. He later worked as the managing director of a feedstuffs company...
- John Baxter
- Roy BradfordRoy BradfordRoy Hamilton Bradford was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland and a government minister in both the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973....
- Ronald BroadhurstRonald BroadhurstBrigadier Ronald Joseph Callender Broadhurst was a Unionist politician.In the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973, he was the last of seven MPAs elected in the South Down constituency, as a pro-Sunningdale candidate...
- John Brooke, 2nd Viscount BrookeboroughJohn Brooke, 2nd Viscount BrookeboroughJohn Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, PC was a Northern Irish politician, the son of Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, the 1st Viscount Brookeborough.-Early life:...
- William Brownlow
- Robert Campbell
- Joshua CardwellJoshua CardwellJoshua Cardwell was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast and educated locally, Cardwell worked as the manager of a coal importing firm. In 1952 he was elected to Belfast City Council for Victoria Ward and later became an Alderman...
- Shena Conn
- William Douglas
- Nelson ElderNelson ElderNelson Elder was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Limavady, Elder worked in a bakery and joined the Northern Ireland Labour Party. He then defected to the Ulster Unionist Party and ran the Welfare and Advice Centre of the Ulster Unionist Council...
- Brian FaulknerBrian FaulknerArthur Brian Deane Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, PC was the sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from March 1971 until his resignation in March 1972...
- Lloyd Hall-ThompsonLloyd Hall-ThompsonRobert Lloyd Hall-Thompson TD , known as Lloyd Hall-Thompson, was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast, Hall-Thompson was the son of Samuel Hall-Thompson, and grandson of Rt. Hon. Robert Thompson MP. He studied at Campbell College in Belfast and joined the Ulster Unionist...
- Herbert HeslipHerbert HeslipHerbert Heslip was a Northern Irish politician with the Ulster Unionist Party .Heslip was a well-known figure in County Down Unionism, serving as a member of Down District Council from 1968–1973 and then of Banbridge District Council until 1985...
- James KilfedderJames KilfedderSir James Alexander Kilfedder was a Northern Ireland unionist politician.-Early life:...
- Herbert KirkHerbert KirkHerbert Kirk was an Ulster Unionist cabinet minister in Parliament of Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast, Kirk studied at Queen's University, Belfast before becoming an accountant....
- Reginald Magee
- David McCarthyDavid McCarthy (politician)David McCarthy was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast, McCarthy studied at the Belfast Municipal College of Technology before working as a quantity surveyor. He was elected to Ballymena Borough Council for the Ulster Unionist Party in 1965, serving until 1973...
- Basil McIvorBasil McIvorWilliam Basil McIvor OBE PC was an Ulster Unionist politician, barrister and pioneer of integrated education.-Early life and education:...
- Peter McLaughlan
- Frank MillarFrank MillarFrank Millar was a Northern Irish unionist politician.Millar worked in the shipyards, where he became a shop steward, before becoming a founder member of Ulster Protestant Action in 1956....
- Nat MinfordNat MinfordNathaniel Owens Minford , known as Nat Minford, was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Minford was born in Templepatrick and was the son of Hugh Minford, who became an Ulster Unionist Party Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland...
- William MorganWilliam James MorganWilliam James Morgan was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.A businessman by profession, he owned James Morgan & Sons, a transport contractors' business. He was president of the Irish Temperance Alliance and chairman of Oldpark YMCA...
- Leslie MorrellLeslie MorrellLeslie Morrell is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Morrell was a farmer from near Coleraine, and was active in the Ulster Unionist Party . He was elected to Coleraine Rural District Council in 1962, then Londonderry County Council in 1969...
- Thomas PollockThomas PollockThomas Pollock was a Canadian ice hockey player. He won a gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics.-References:...
- James Stronge
- John TaylorJohn Taylor, Baron KilclooneyJohn David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC , is a former Ulster Unionist Party MP and a life peer. He was deputy leader of the UUP from 1995 to 2001, and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.-Career and family:...
- William Thompson
- Harry WestHarry WestHenry William West was a politician in Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 until 1979.West was born in County Fermanagh and educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen...
- Herbert WhittenHerbert WhittenHerbert Whitten was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Portadown, Whitten became the managing director of T. A. Shillington, a builders' merchants...
Social Democratic and Labour PartySocial Democratic and Labour PartyThe Social Democratic and Labour Party is a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. Its basic party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom...
(19 seats)
- Michael CanavanMichael CanavanMichael A. Canavan is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General and former Federal Aviation Administration security official. Canavan presently sits on the board of defense contractor USfalcon. Canavan was the seventh commander of the US military's Joint Special Operations Command and retired...
- Ivan CooperIvan CooperIvan Averill Cooper is a former politician from Northern Ireland who was a Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and founding member of the SDLP...
- Austin CurrieAustin CurrieAustin Currie is a former politician who was elected to the parliaments of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland....
- Thomas Daly
- Paddy DevlinPaddy DevlinPaddy Devlin was a Northern Irish social democrat and Labour activist, a former Stormont MP, a founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and a member of the 1974 Power Sharing Executive.-Early life:...
- Paddy DuffyPaddy DuffyPaddy Duffy was an Irish-American and the first World Welterweight champion of the gloved era of boxing.-Professional career:Duffy won his first fight by KO over Skin Doherty in 1884 at age nineteen....
- Frank FeelyFrank FeelyFrank Feely is a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.Feely worked as a teacher in Newry. At the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973, he was elected for the Social Democratic and Labour Party in South Down. He held this seat at the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, and at...
- Gerry FittGerry FittGerard Fitt, Baron Fitt was a politician in Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party , a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.-Early years:...
- Desmond GillespieDesmond GillespieDesmond Gillespie was an Irish nationalist politician.Born in Kilnaleck, County Cavan, Gillespie worked as a publican in Belfast before joining the Social Democratic and Labour Party . He stood for Belfast City Council at the 1973 local elections, but was not elected...
- John HumeJohn HumeJohn Hume is a former Irish politician from Derry, Northern Ireland. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, and was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, with David Trimble....
- Aidan Larkin
- Hugh LogueHugh LogueHugh Logue is a Northern Irish former Social Democratic and Labour Party politician and economist who now works as a commentator on political and economic issues. He is also a director of two renewable energy companies in Europe and the United States...
- Seamus MallonSeamus MallonSeamus Frederick Mallon born 17 August 1936, in Markethill, County Armagh, is an Irish politician and former Deputy Leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland...
- Vincent McCloskeyVincent McCloskeyEdward Vincent McCloskey , known as Vincent McCloskey, was an Irish nationalist politician.Born in Belfast, McCloskey was educated at the Christian Brothers' School before becoming a heating engineer. He also became politically active, joining the National Democratic Party in 1967. He was elected...
- Eddy McGrady
- Hugh NewsHugh NewsHugh News is a former Irish nationalist politician.News studied at St Colman's College, Newry before working as a pharmacist and publican in Lurgan. In 1964, he was elected to Lurgan Borough Council, serving for three years as a member of the Independent Citizens' Association...
- Patrick O'DonoghuePatrick O'Donoghue (politician)Patrick O'Donoghue was a Northern Ireland politician active in the Social Democratic and Labour Party for a number of years....
- John O'HaganJohn O'HaganJohn O'Hagan was an Irish lawyer and writer.-Life:He was educated in the day-school of the Jesuit Fathers, Dublin, and in Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1842...
- Paddy O'HanlonPaddy O'HanlonPatrick Michael O'Hanlon , known as Paddy O'Hanlon, was a barrister and former nationalist politician in Ireland....
Democratic Unionist PartyDemocratic Unionist PartyThe Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...
(8 seats)
- William Beattie
- Thomas Burns
- James Craig
- Douglas HutchinsonDouglas HutchinsonDouglas Hutchinson was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Richhill, County Armagh, Hutchinson worked as a fruit farmer. In 1953, he succeeded his father as an Ulster Unionist Party member of Armagh Rural District Council, holding his seat until its abolition in 1973...
- John McQuadeJohn McQuadeJohn McQuade , known as Johnny McQuade, was a Northern Ireland politician. He was a professional boxer under the name of Jack Higgins....
- Eileen Paisley
- Ian PaisleyIan PaisleyIan Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC is a politician and church minister in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party , he and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness were elected First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively on 8 May 2007.In addition to co-founding...
- Charles PootsCharles PootsCharles Boucher Poots , often known as Charlie Poots, is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Poots joined Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, acting as Treasurer of the Hillsborough church. He also joined the Protestant Unionist Party , standing unsuccessfully for the...
Vanguard Progressive Unionist PartyVanguard Progressive Unionist PartyThe Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party , informally known as Ulster Vanguard, was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1973 and 1978...
(7 seats)
- Ernest BairdErnest BairdErnest Baird was a politician in Northern Ireland. Baird was born in County Donegalin the Irish Free State but moved with his family to Belfast at an early age....
- Glenn BarrGlenn BarrGlenn Barr, OBE , is a former politician from Derry, Northern Ireland who was an advocate of Ulster nationalism. For a time during the 1970s he straddled both Unionism and Loyalism due to simultaneously holding important positions in the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party and the Ulster Defence...
- Thomas CarsonThomas CarsonThe Rt Rev Thomas CarsonLLD was a 19th century Irish Anglican Bishop . He held incumbencies at Urney, Cavan and then Cloon. Next he was Archdeacon of Ardagh , and after that Vicar general and then Dean of Kilmore in 1860 before elevation in 1870 to the Episcopate as the 5th Bishop of the United...
- William Craig
- John DunlopJohn Dunlop (Northern Ireland politician)John Dunlop was a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland.He was Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster from 1974 to 1983. Initially elected as a member of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, from 1976 he represented the short-lived breakaway United Ulster Unionist Party.- External links :...
- Cecil HarveyCecil Harvey (politician)Cecil Harvey was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Harvey was a founding elder of Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, in 1951. The following year, he suggested the congregation's move from Crossgar to Whiteabbey. He was also active in the Orange Order and the Ulster Unionist...
- Kennedy LindsayKennedy LindsayKennedy Lindsay was a Northern Ireland politician and a leading advocate of Ulster nationalism.Born in Saskatchewan, Canada of Ulster Scots descent, Lindsay was educated at Trinity College, Dublin...
Alliance Party of Northern IrelandAlliance Party of Northern IrelandThe Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is a liberal and nonsectarian political party in Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's fifth-largest party overall, with eight seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly and one in the House of Commons....
(8 seats)
- Bob CooperBob Cooper (politician)Sir Robert George Cooper CBE, known as Bob Cooper was a politician and equal opportunities activist in Northern Ireland....
- Derrick CrothersDerrick CrothersDerrick Crothers is a Northern Irish mathematician, physicist and former politician.Crothers grew up in Cookstown and studied at Rainey Endowed School, where he won the top mathematics and Science State Exhibition prize in 1959. He then read mathematics at Balliol College, Oxford, before...
- John FergusonJohn Ferguson (Northern Ireland politician)John Ferguson was a politician in Northern Ireland.Ferguson was born in Belfast and studied at the Moravian School. He worked as a fruit merchant, becoming chairman of the Retail Fruit Federation of Northern Ireland, and also as a volunteer social workers within Toc H, then joined the Ulster...
- Basil GlassBasil GlassBasil Glass was a politician in Northern Ireland.Born in County Leitrim, Glass studied at Queen's University Belfast; he qualified as a solicitor in 1950 and became a prominent lawyer. He was elected joint treasurer of the New Ulster Movement, with fellow solicitor Oliver Napier, in 1969...
- Bertie McConnellBertie McConnellRobert Dodd McConnell, known as Bertie McConnell is a former Army officer and politician in Northern Ireland.McConnell was born in Bangor, County Down, and served in the British Army in World War II. During the war, he lost his sight....
- Charles MulhollandCharles Mulholland, 4th Baron DunleathLieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Henry John Mulholland, 4th Baron Dunleath DL was a politician in Northern Ireland.Mulholland studied at Eton College and the University of Cambridge...
- Oliver NapierOliver NapierSir Oliver Napier was the first leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. In 1974 he served as the first and only Legal Minister and head of the Office of Legal Reform in the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive set up by the Sunningdale Agreement.-Early life:Napier was educated at St...
- Hugh WilsonHugh Wilson (Northern Ireland politician)Hugh Wilson was a politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Ballyclare, Wilson worked as a surgeon. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1969, he stood as an independent Unionist supporter of the Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, taking 48% of the vote but being narrowly defeated by William...
West Belfast Loyalist Coalition (3 seats)
- Jean CoulterJean CoulterRose Jean Coulter is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in the Shankhill district of Belfast, Coulter studied at the Girls' Model School before becoming a solicitor's clerk. She also became active in the Ulster Unionist Party...
(Vanguard Progressive Unionist PartyVanguard Progressive Unionist PartyThe Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party , informally known as Ulster Vanguard, was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1973 and 1978...
) - John LairdJohn Laird, Baron LairdProfessor John Dunn Laird, Baron Laird FRSA of Artigarvan is an Ulster Unionist life peer and former chairman of the cross-border Ulster-Scots Agency.-Career:...
(Ulster Unionist PartyUlster Unionist PartyThe Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
) - Hugh SmythHugh SmythCllr Hugh Smyth is a former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party. He is a long-serving member of Belfast City Council and former Lord Mayor of Belfast. He is also the longest-serving member of the council, having represented the Upper Shankill areas since 1973...
(Independent UnionistIndependent UnionistSee also Independent .Independent Unionist has been a label sometimes used by candidates in elections in the United Kingdom, indicating a support for Unionism, retaining the unity of the British state....
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- Clifford SmythClifford SmythFor the rapper, see Method Man.Clifford Smyth is a historian and former politician in Northern Ireland.Smyth stood for the Democratic Unionist Party in North Antrim in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973, narrowly missing out on a seat. Following the death of David McCarthy, an Ulster...
of the Democratic Unionist Party was elected in a by-electionBy-electionA by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
in North AntrimNorth Antrim (Assembly constituency)North Antrim is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973...
in 1974 following the death of David McCarthyDavid McCarthy (politician)David McCarthy was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast, McCarthy studied at the Belfast Municipal College of Technology before working as a quantity surveyor. He was elected to Ballymena Borough Council for the Ulster Unionist Party in 1965, serving until 1973...
of the Ulster Unionists.