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This is a list of members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1982.

All members elected to the Assembly at the 1982 election are listed. Members are grouped by party.

The Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin members did not take their seats in the Assembly and the Ulster Unionist Party members boycotted the Assembly for five months during 1984.

Members by party

This is a list of members elected in the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election, sorted by party.

Party Name Constituency
Ulster Unionist Party (27) Fraser Agnew South Antrim
Jack Allen Londonderry
Roy Beggs North Antrim
Billy Bell South Antrim
William Bleakes North Down
William Brown South Down
Jeremy Burchill Belfast East
John Carson Belfast North
Jeffrey Donaldson South Down
William Douglas Londonderry
Dorothy Dunlop Belfast East
Raymond Ferguson Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Clifford Forsythe South Antrim
Joe Gaston North Antrim
Frank Millar Jr ♭ Belfast South
Jim Kirkpatrick Belfast South
Ken Maginnis Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Robert McCartney North Down
Harold McCusker Armagh
James Molyneaux South Antrim
Jim Nicholson Armagh
Thomas Passmore Belfast West
Mary Simpson Armagh
Jim Speers ♭ Armagh
Martin Smyth Belfast South
John Taylor North Down
William Thompson Mid Ulster
Democratic Unionist Party (21) Jim Allister North Antrim
William Beattie South Antrim
David Calvert Armagh
Gregory Campbell Londonderry
Cecil Cousley North Antrim
Ivan Davis South Antrim
Ivan Foster Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Simpson Gibson North Down
George Graham South Down
Alan Kane Mid Ulster
James McClure Londonderry
Raymond McCrea Belfast South
William McCrea Mid Ulster
Jack McKee North Antrim
Ian Paisley North Antrim
Wesley Pentland North Down
Peter Robinson Belfast East
George Seawright Belfast North
Roy Thompson South Antrim
Denny Vitty Belfast East
Jim Wells South Down
Social Democratic and Labour Party (13) Austin Currie Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Sean Farren North Antrim
Frank Feely South Down
Denis Haughey Mid Ulster
Joe Hendron Belfast West
John Hume Londonderry
Hugh Logue Londonderry
James McDonald South Antrim
Eddie McGrady South Down
Mary McSorley Mid Ulster
Hugh News Armagh
Patrick O'Donoghue South Down
Paschal O'Hare Belfast North
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (10) Seamus Close South Antrim
David Cook Belfast South
John Cushnahan North Down
Will Glendinning Belfast West
Paul Maguire Belfast North
Gordon Mawhinney South Antrim
Addie Morrow Belfast East
Charles Mulholland North Down
Oliver Napier Belfast East
Seán Neeson North Antrim
Sinn Féin (5) Gerry Adams Belfast West
Owen Carron Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Jim McAllister Armagh
Martin McGuinness Londonderry
Danny Morrison Mid Ulster
Ulster Popular Unionist Party (1) James Kilfedder North Down
Independent Unionist (1) Frank Millar Belfast North

Members by constituency

The list is given in alphabetical order by constituency.

Members of the Northern Ireland Forum
Constituency Name Party
Armagh David Calvert Democratic Unionist Party
Jim Allister Sinn Féin
Harold McCusker Ulster Unionist Party
Hugh News Social Democratic and Labour Party
Jim Nicholson Ulster Unionist Party
Mary Simpson Ulster Unionist Party
Jim Speers ♭ Ulster Unionist Party
Belfast East Jeremy Burchill Ulster Unionist Party
Dorothy Dunlop Ulster Unionist Party
Addie Morrow Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Oliver Napier Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Peter Robinson Democratic Unionist Party
Denny Vitty Democratic Unionist Party
Belfast North John Carson Ulster Unionist Party
Paul Maguire Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Frank Millar Independent Unionist
Paschal O'Hare Social Democratic and Labour Party
George Seawright Democratic Unionist Party
Belfast South David Cook Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Jim Kirkpatrick Ulster Unionist Party
Raymond McCrea Democratic Unionist Party
Frank Millar Jr ♭ Ulster Unionist Party
Martin Smyth Ulster Unionist Party
Belfast West Gerry Adams Sinn Féin
Will Glendinning Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Joe Hendron Social Democratic and Labour Party
Thomas Passmore Ulster Unionist Party
Fermanagh and South Tyrone Owen Carron Sinn Féin
Austin Currie Social Democratic and Labour Party
Raymond Ferguson Ulster Unionist Party
Ivan Foster Democratic Unionist Party
Ken Maginnis Ulster Unionist Party
Londonderry Jack Allen Ulster Unionist Party
Gregory Campbell Democratic Unionist Party
William Douglas Ulster Unionist Party
John Hume Social Democratic and Labour Party
Hugh Logue Social Democratic and Labour Party
James McClure Democratic Unionist Party
Martin McGuinness Sinn Féin
Mid Ulster Denis Haughey Social Democratic and Labour Party
Alan Kane Democratic Unionist Party
William McCrea Democratic Unionist Party
Mary McSorley Social Democratic and Labour Party
Danny Morrison Sinn Féin
William Thompson Ulster Unionist Party
North Antrim Jim Allister Democratic Unionist Party
Roy Beggs Ulster Unionist Party
Cecil Cousley Democratic Unionist Party
Sean Farren Social Democratic and Labour Party
Joe Gaston Ulster Unionist Party
Jack McKee Democratic Unionist Party
Seán Neeson Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Ian Paisley Democratic Unionist Party
North Down John Cushnahan Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
William Bleakes Ulster Unionist Party
Simpson Gibson Democratic Unionist Party
James Kilfedder Ulster Popular Unionist Party
Robert McCartney Ulster Unionist Party
Charles Mulholland Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Wesley Pentland Democratic Unionist Party
John Taylor Ulster Unionist Party
South Antrim Fraser Agnew Ulster Unionist Party
William Beattie Democratic Unionist Party
Billy Bell Ulster Unionist Party
Seamus Close Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Ivan Davis Democratic Unionist Party
Clifford Forsythe Ulster Unionist Party
Gordon Mawhinney Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
James McDonald Social Democratic and Labour Party
James Molyneaux Ulster Unionist Party
Roy Thompson Democratic Unionist Party
South Down William Brown Ulster Unionist Party
Jeffrey Donaldson Ulster Unionist Party
Frank Feely Social Democratic and Labour Party
George Graham Democratic Unionist Party
Eddie McGrady Social Democratic and Labour Party
Patrick O'Donoghue Social Democratic and Labour Party
Jim Wells Democratic Unionist Party

Changes

♭ By-Elections

Date Constituency Outgoing Member Party New Member Party Reason
20 April 1983 Armagh Seamus Mallon SDLP Jim Speers UUP Seamus Mallon disqualified due to his membership of Seanad Éireann.
1 March 1984 Belfast South Edgar Graham UUP Frank Millar Jr UUP Edgar Graham was murdered by the Provisional IRA.
17 October 1985 South Down Raymond McCullough UUP Jeffrey Donaldson UUP Raymond McCullough died.

Subsequent changes of party or allegiance

A considerable number of MPAs, mainly Unionist, subsequently left or were expelled from their respective parties. Of UUP members, Jeffrey Donaldson joined the DUP in 2004 after a short spell as an Independent Unionist. Agnew became an Independent Unionist. Bleakes joined the Conservatives but later became an Independent Unionist, while Dunlop took the opposite route, moving to Independent Unionist and then Conservative. McCartney stood as a Real Unionist in 1987 before forming the United Kingdom Unionists in 1995, where he was joined by Vitty who joined from the DUP. Kirkpatrick joined the DUP, rejoined the UUP before again switching to the DUP.

Of DUP members, Allister, Beattie, Calvert, Foster, Graham, Kane and McKee all later quit the party. Seawright (who was expelled from the DUP) Beattie and Graham were subsequently re-elected under different 'Protestant' or 'Protestant Unionist' labels. Davis and Thompson subsequently joined the UUP. In the case of the latter, this was after a spell as an Independent Unionist and he later quit the UUP to rejoin the DUP.

O'Hare quit the SDLP in January 1986 over the party's support for the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Sorley left the SDLP in the late 80s following a row over her acceptance of the M.B.E. and was re-elected to Magherafelt council in 1989 as an Independent.

Currie of the S.D.L.P. and Cushnahan of Alliance later became involved in Southern Irish politics and were elected for Fine Gael.

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