2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election

The 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election was held on Wednesday, 7 March 2007. It was the third election to take place since the devolved assembly was established in 1998. The election saw endorsement of the St Andrews Agreement and the two largest parties, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin, along with the Alliance Party, increase their support, with falls in support for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

This article is about the assembly election in Northern Ireland. For the general election in the Republic of Ireland, see 2007 Irish general election.

2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election
7 March 2007
All 108 seats to the Northern Ireland Assembly
Turnout62.3% 0.7%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ian Paisley Gerry Adams Reg Empey
Party DUP Sinn Féin Ulster Unionist
Leader since 30 September 1971 13 November 1983 24 June 2005
Leader's seat North Antrim Belfast West Belfast East
Last election 30 seats, 27.8% 24 seats, 23.5% 27 seats, 22.7%
Seats won 36 28 18
Seat change 6 4 9
Popular vote 207,721 180,573 103,145
Percentage 30.1% 26.2% 14.9%
Swing 4.4% 2.7% 7.8%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Mark Durkan David Ford John Barry
Party SDLP Alliance Green (NI)
Leader since 10 November 2001 6 October 2001 January 2003
Leader's seat Foyle South Antrim Did not stand
Last election 18 seats, 16.7% 6 seats, 3.7% 0 seat, 0.4%
Seats won 16 7 1
Seat change 2 1 1
Popular vote 105,164 36,139 11,985
Percentage 15.2% 5.2% 1.7%
Swing 1.8% 1.5% 1.3%
  Seventh party
 
PUP
Leader Dawn Purvis
Party PUP
Leader since 2007
Leader's seat Belfast East
Last election 1 seat, 1.2%
Seats won 1
Seat change
Popular vote 3,822
Percentage 0.6%
Swing 0.6%
Election results. Voters elect 6 assembly members from the 18 constituencies.
First Minister before election

Suspended

 First Minister after election

Ian Paisley
DUP

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The 2007 election was held using STV and 18 multi-seat districts, each electing 6 members.

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