Executive of the 4th Northern Ireland Assembly
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| Executive of the 1st Assembly Executive of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly -First Executive:The First Executive was under the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 a power sharing coalition.Following the first election to the new Northern Ireland Assembly the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin all took up their ministerial posts... |
(1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998 -Seats summary:-Details:Although the SDLP won the most first preference votes, the Ulster Unionists won the most seats in the Assembly. This has been attributed to several reasons, including:... ) |
| Executive of the 2nd Assembly Executive of the 2nd Northern Ireland Assembly - Executive :Following the suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2002 a new election was called in November 2003 in hope of restoring devolution, the election saw the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin emerge as the largest parties in the Assembly... |
(2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003 The second elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which at the time of the elections had been suspended for just over a year, were held on Wednesday 26 November 2003. Six members were elected by Single Transferable Vote from each of Northern Ireland's eighteen Westminster Parliamentary... ) |
| Executive of the 3rd Assembly Executive of the 3rd Northern Ireland Assembly - Second Executive :The Second Executive is as under the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 a power sharing coalition.Devoultion was restored to Northern Ireland on 8 May 2007 following the St Andrews Agreement, the March election saw the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin emerge as the... |
(2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007 The third elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly were held on 7 March 2007 when 108 new members were elected. The election saw endorsement of the St Andrews Agreement and the two largest parties, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin, along with the Alliance Party, increase their... ) |
| Executive of the 4th Assembly | (2011) |
Third Executive
The Third Executive (16 May 2011–) is under the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998Northern Ireland Act 1998
The Northern Ireland Act 1998 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which established a devolved legislature for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Assembly, after decades of direct rule from Westminster....
a power-sharing coalition
Consociationalism
Consociationalism is a form of government involving guaranteed group representation, and is often suggested for managing conflict in deeply divided societies...
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Following the 5 May 2011 elections to the fourth Northern Ireland Assembly the Democratic Unionist Party
Democratic Unionist Party
The 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...
and Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
remained the two largest parties in the Assembly
Northern Ireland Assembly
The Northern Ireland Assembly is the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland. It has power to legislate in a wide range of areas that are not explicitly reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and to appoint the Northern Ireland Executive...
. The Assembly finished selecting an executive on Monday. 16 May 2011.
Executive Committee
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Junior Ministers
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| Junior Minister Junior Minister (Northern Ireland) The term Junior Minister, in Northern Ireland, is the name given to two positions in the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister .... in the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister The Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister is a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive with overall responsibility for the running of the Executive... |
Jonathan Bell Jonathan Bell (UK politician) Jonathan Fergus Bell MLA is a Democratic Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. He was selected in 2010 to fill the vacancy for the Strangford constituency of the Northern Ireland Assembly following the resignation of Iris Robinson... |
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| Junior Minister in the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister | Martina Anderson Martina Anderson Martina Anderson, MLA is an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland who occupies the post of Director of Unionist Engagement for Sinn Féin and is a former volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army .-Biography:... |
Sources
- "New Executive ministers to be appointed on Monday", BBC NewsBBC NewsBBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
, 16 May 2011 - "Stormont Assembly votes in new team of Ministers", by Dan Keenan, The Irish TimesThe Irish TimesThe Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays...
, 17 May 2011 (retrieved 16 May 2011)
See also
- List of Northern Ireland Executives
- Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 2011Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 2011This is a list of the 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 2011. All members elected at the assembly elections, held on 5 May 2011 are listed. Eighty-three of the MLAs elected in 2011 had been members for all or part of the Assembly's previous term...