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. Members are grouped by party. The Northern Ireland Assembly was a legislative assembly set up by the Government of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1973 to restore devolved government to Northern Ireland with a power-sharing executive made up of unionists and nationalists. ... The 1973 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly took place following the publication of the British governments white paper Northern Ireland Constitutional Proposals which proposed a 78-member Northern Ireland Assembly, elected by proportional representation. ...

Members

Ulster Unionist Party (31 seats)

• Norman Agnew
• Austin Ardill
• John Baxter
• Roy Bradford
• Ronald Broadhurst
• John Brooke, 4th 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

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party ) is a moderate unionist political party in Northern Ireland, which formed its government between 1921 and 1972 and was supported by most unionists throughout the Troubles. ... Brigadier Ronnie Broadhurst is perhaps best known for being the last of seven elected in the South Down constituency for the assembly election of 1973, as a pro-Sunningdale candidate. ... Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick (February 18, 1921 - March 3, 1977) was the sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1971 until 1972. ... Sir James Alexander Kilfedder (July 16, 1928–March 20, 1995) was a Northern Ireland unionist politician. ... William Basil McIvor (1928-November 5, 2004) was an Ulster Unionist politician and pioneer of integrated education. ... Sir James Matthew Stronge, 9th Baronet (1932-1981) was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly and son of Sir Norman Stronge. ... The Rt. ... Harry West Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 to 1979. ...

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
• Edward McCloskey
• Eddy McGrady
• Hugh News
• Patrick O'Donoghue
• John O'Hagan
• Paddy O'Hanlon

The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP — Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is the smaller of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. ... Ivan Cooper, a Protestant M.P. best known for leading the proscribed anti-internment march, which ended being known as Bloody Sunday on January 30, 1972, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, where 14 unarmed men and boys -- only one of whom, Gerry Donaghy (of the Junior IRA), could be adjudged a... Austin Currie (born 11 October 1939) is a former Irish politician, being elected to the parliaments of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. ... Paddy 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. ... Gerrard Gerry Fitt, Baron Fitt (9 April 1926 – 26 August 2005) was a Northern Irish politician. ... John Hume. ... Seamus Mallon, MP Seamus Mallon (born on 17 August 1936) is a Northern Irish politician and former Deputy Leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party. ...

Democratic Unionist Party (8 seats)

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

DUP redirects here. ... William Beattie (born 21 September 1942) is a former minister and Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. ... John McQuade (July 1912 - 19 November 1984), known as Johnny McQuade, was a Northern Ireland politician. ... Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St. ... Ian Richard Kyle Paisley (born 6 April 1926), styled The Revd and Rt Hon. ...

Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party (7 seats)

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

The Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, also known as the Vanguard Ulster Progressive Party (and several variations of word order), was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1973 and 1978. ... Ernest Baird (1930 - September 2003) was a politician in Northern Ireland. ... Glenn Barr (born 1932 in Derry) was a Northern Ireland politician and advocate of Ulster nationalism. ... The Right Honourable William Craig (b. ... John Dunlop (born May 20, 1910) is a Northern Ireland Unionist politician. ... Kennedy Lindsay (1924-1997) was a Northern Ireland politician and a leading advocate of Ulster nationalism. ...

Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (8 seats)

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

The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), is a political party operating in Northern Ireland. ... Sir Oliver Napier was the first leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. ...

Northern Ireland Labour Party (1 seat)

• David Bleakley

The Northern Ireland Labour Party was a political party which operated from 1924 until the 1980s. ... David Bleakley, OBE, PC (NI) (born 11 January 1925) is a politician in Northern Ireland. ...

West Belfast Loyalist Coalition (3 seats)

• Jean Coulter (a Vanguard member)
• John Laird (an Ulster Unionist)
• Hugh Smyth (an Independent Unionist]

Hugh Smyth is a former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party. ...

Independent Unionist (1 seat)

• Anne Dickson

Anne Dickson Anne Dickson, born in London in 1928 She succeeded Brian Faulkner as leader of the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland (UPNI) in 1976. ...

Changes

• Clifford Smyth of the Democratic Unionist Party was elected in North Antrim following the death of David McCarthy.

Clifford Smyth is a historian and former politician in Northern Ireland. ... North Antrim is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ...

References

• Northern Ireland Elections: Northern Ireland Assembly Elections 1973