List of members of the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly facts for kids
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.
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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.
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.
