Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)

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The Northern Ireland Assembly (1973) was a short-lived devolved legislature established under the Sunningdale Agreement as an early attempt at power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf devolved legislature
parliamentary assembly
power-sharing institution
aim to establish consociational power-sharing in Northern Ireland
to provide devolved government within the United Kingdom
country United Kingdom
createdBy Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973
dissolvedOn 1974-05-28
endDate 1974-05-28
establishedUnder Sunningdale Agreement
firstElectionDate 1973-06-28
followedBy Northern Ireland Assembly
surface form: Northern Ireland Assembly (1998)

Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
governmentType power-sharing executive and legislature
hadExecutive Northern Ireland Executive
surface form: Northern Ireland Executive (1973)
hadOfficialLanguage English
historicalSignificance first formal power-sharing legislature in Northern Ireland
includedInstitution Council of Ireland
jurisdiction Northern Ireland
keyAgreementContext Sunningdale Agreement
legalBasis Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973
legislativeBodyOf Northern Ireland
legislativeCompetence devolved matters in Northern Ireland
locatedIn Northern Ireland
locatedInCity Belfast
metIn Parliament Buildings, Stormont
numberOfMembers 78
opposedBy Ulster Workers' Council
hardline unionists
oversightBy UK government
surface form: Government of the United Kingdom
parentState United Kingdom
powerSharingBetween nationalists
unionists
precededBy Northern Ireland Parliament
surface form: Parliament of Northern Ireland
reasonForDissolution Ulster Workers' Council strike
collapse of Sunningdale power-sharing arrangements
regionServed Northern Ireland
seatOfGovernmentFor Northern Ireland
shortLived true
startDate 1973-06-28
status defunct
supportedBy moderate unionists
nationalist parties
timePeriod The Troubles
votingSystem proportional representation
single transferable vote

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Northern Ireland Assembly hasPredecessor Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention replaced Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention followedBy Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
this entity surface form: Northern Ireland Assembly (1982)
Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 createdBody Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
Workers' Party of Ireland parliamentaryRepresentation Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
this entity surface form: Northern Ireland Assembly (historically)