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Members of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly

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Jurisdiction
  
Northern Ireland

Members
  
108

Election
  
1998 assembly election

Meeting place
  
Parliament Buildings, Stormont

Term
  
1 July 1998 – 14 October 2002

Government
  
Executive of the 1st Assembly

This is a list of Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1998.

Contents

All members of the Assembly, or MLAs ("Members of the Legislative Assembly") elected at the 1998 Assembly election are listed. MLAs are grouped by party.

Social Democratic and Labour Party - 24 MLAs

Alex Attwood P. J. Bradley Joe Byrne John Dallat Arthur Doherty (later resigned and replaced by Michael Coyle) Mark Durkan Sean Farren John Fee Tommy Gallagher Carmel Hanna Denis Haughey Joe Hendron John Hume (later resigned and replaced by Annie Courtney) Patricia Lewsley Donovan McClelland Alasdair McDonnell Eddie McGrady Eugene McMenamin Alban Maginness Seamus Mallon Danny O'Connor Eamon O'Neill Brid Rodgers John Tierney

Ulster Unionist Party - 28 MLAs

Ian Adamson Pauline Armitage Billy Armstrong Roy Beggs, Jr. Billy Bell Tom Benson (died 2000, replaced by Tom Hamilton) Esmond Birnie Joan Carson Fred Cobain Robert Coulter Ivan Davis Reg Empey Sam Foster John Gorman Derek Hussey Danny Kennedy James Leslie David McClarty Alan McFarland Michael McGimpsey Dermot Nesbitt Ken Robinson George Savage Duncan Shipley-Dalton John Taylor David Trimble Peter Weir (later joined Democratic Unionist Party) Jim Wilson

Democratic Unionist Party - 20 MLAs

Paul Berry Gregory Campbell Mervyn Carrick Wilson Clyde Nigel Dodds Oliver Gibson William Hay David Hilditch Gardiner Kane William McCrea Maurice Morrow Ian Paisley Ian Paisley Jr Edwin Poots Iris Robinson Mark Robinson Peter Robinson Jim Shannon Jim Wells Sammy Wilson

Sinn Féin - 18 MLAs

Gerry Adams Bairbre de Brún Pat Doherty Michelle Gildernew Gerry Kelly John Kelly Barry McElduff Martin McGuinness Gerry McHugh Mitchel McLaughlin Pat McNamee Alex Maskey Francie Molloy Conor Murphy Mick Murphy Mary Nelis Dara O'Hagan Sue Ramsey

Alliance Party of Northern Ireland - 6 MLAs

John Alderdice Eileen Bell Seamus Close David Ford Kieran McCarthy Sean Neeson

UK Unionist Party - 5 MLAs

Norman Boyd (later joined Northern Ireland Unionist Party) Roger Hutchinson (later joined Northern Ireland Unionist Party, then left and later joined the Democratic Unionist Party) Robert McCartney Patrick Roche (later joined Northern Ireland Unionist Party) Cedric Wilson (later joined Northern Ireland Unionist Party)

Progressive Unionist Party - 2 MLAs

David Ervine Billy Hutchinson

Northern Ireland Women's Coalition - 2 MLAs

Monica McWilliams Jane Morrice

Independent Unionist - 3 MLAs

Fraser Agnew (later joined United Unionist Assembly Party) Boyd Douglas (later joined United Unionist Assembly Party) Denis Watson (later joined United Unionist Assembly Party)

References

Members of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly Wikipedia