Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1973

Northern Ireland 1973–98
This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Northern Ireland
Interim bodies
Northern Ireland Assembly (1973) Northern Ireland Executive (1974) Constitutional Convention (1975) Northern Ireland Assembly (1982) Northern Ireland Forum (1996)
Elections
1973 · 1975 · 1982 · 1996
Members
1973 · 1975 · 1982 · 1996
See also
Anglo-Irish Agreement New Ireland Forum Northern Ireland by-elections, 1986 Northern Ireland sovereignty referendum, 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.

Members

Ulster Unionist Party (31 seats)

• Norman Agnew
• Austin Ardill
• John Baxter
• Roy Bradford
• Ronald Broadhurst
• John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough
• William Brownlow
• Robert Campbell
• Joshua Cardwell
• Shena Conn
• William Douglas
• Nelson Elder
• Brian Faulkner
• Lloyd Hall-Thompson
• Herbert Heslip
• James Kilfedder
• Herbert Kirk
• Reginald Magee
• David McCarthy
• Basil McIvor
• Peter McLaughlan
• Frank Millar
• Nat Minford
• William Morgan
• Leslie Morrell
• Thomas Pollock
• James Stronge
• John Taylor
• William Thompson
• Harry West
• Herbert Whitten

Social Democratic and Labour Party (19 seats)

• Michael Canavan
• Ivan Cooper
• Austin Currie
• Thomas Daly
• Paddy Devlin
• Paddy Duffy
• Frank Feely
• Gerry Fitt
• Desmond Gillespie
• John Hume
• Aidan Larkin
• Hugh Logue
• Seamus Mallon
• Vincent McCloskey
• Eddy McGrady
• Hugh News
• Patrick O'Donoghue
• John O'Hagan
• Paddy O'Hanlon

Democratic Unionist Party (8 seats)

• William Beattie
• Thomas Burns
• James Craig
• Douglas Hutchinson
• John McQuade
• Eileen Paisley
• Ian Paisley
• Charles Poots

Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party (7 seats)

• Ernest Baird
• Glenn Barr
• Thomas Carson
• William Craig
• John Dunlop
• Cecil Harvey
• Kennedy Lindsay

Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (8 seats)

• Bob Cooper
• Derrick Crothers
• John Ferguson
• Basil Glass
• Bertie McConnell
• Charles Mulholland
• Oliver Napier
• Hugh Wilson

Northern Ireland Labour Party (1 seat)

• David Bleakley

West Belfast Loyalist Coalition (3 seats)

• Jean Coulter (Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party)
• John Laird (Ulster Unionist Party)
• Hugh Smyth (Independent Unionist]

Independent Unionist (1 seat)

• Anne Dickson

Changes

• Clifford Smyth of the Democratic Unionist Party was elected in a by-election in North Antrim in 1974 following the death of David McCarthy of the Ulster Unionists.

References

• Northern Ireland Elections: Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 1973