Northern Ireland Forum

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The Northern Ireland Forum, or formally the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue was a body set up in 1996 to conduct the negotiations that eventually led to the Belfast Agreement (or the Good Friday Agreement) in 1998.

The forum was elected, with five members being elected for each Westminster Parliamentary constituency for Northern Ireland, under the D'Hondt method. There was also a "topup" of two for the ten parties polling most votes; this ensured that two loyalist parties associated with paramilitary groups were represented. See members of the Northern Ireland Forum for a complete list.

The results of the election were:

Party Votes Vote % Constituency
seats		 Top-up
seats		 Total
seats
Ulster Unionist 181,829 24.17 28 2 30
Social Democratic and Labour 160,786 21.36 19 2 21
Democratic Unionist [1] 141,413 18.80 22 2 24
Sinn Féin 116,377 15.47 15 2 17
Alliance 49,176 6.54 5 2 7
UK Unionist 27,774 3.69 1 2 3
Progressive Unionist 26,082 3.47 0 2 2
Ulster Democratic 16,715 2.22 0 2 2
NI Women's Coalition 7,731 1.03 0 2 2
Labour Coalition 6,425 0.85 0 2 2
Green (NI) 3,647 0.49 0 0 0
Conservative 3,595 0.48 0 0 0
Workers' Party 3,530 0.47 0 0 0
Ulster Independence 2,125 0.47 0 0 0
Democratic Left 1,215 0.16 0 0 0
Democratic Partnership 1,046 0.14 0 0 0
Independent McMullan 927 0.12 0 0 0
Independent Chambers 567 0.08 0 0 0
Natural Law 389 0.05 0 0 0
Independent DUP 388 0.05 0 0 0
Independent Arthur Templeton 350 0.05 0 0 0
Independent Voice 204 0.03 0 0 0
Communist 66 0.01 0 0 0
Ulster Christian Democrats 31 0.01 0 0 0

All parties shown.

^  The party was listed on the ballot paper as "Democratic Unionist Party DUP Ian Paisley"

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