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The average voter turnout in the Legislative Assembly election was 58.39% in the third election (2005/2009) and 59.91% in the fourth election (2009/2013), corresponding to 128,830 and 149,006, respectively.
The overall result of these problems was to damage confidence among unionists in the Agreement, which was exploited by the anti-Agreement DUP which eventually defeated the pro-Agreement Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in the 2003 Assembly election.
Secondly, Protestants and Unionists, by contrast, are more exclusi- vist, more extreme in their nation-state identification, less supportive of compro- mise, and, in the wake of the Assembly election, more politically alienated.
A significant political vacuum that prevented the operation of strand one (and therefore strand two) for three years was created in the context of: • the UK’s decision to leave the EU in June 2016; • the loss of the unionist majority position in the 2017 Assembly election; • the confidence and supply arrangement between the conservative government and the DUP at Westminster after the 2017 general election; and • entrenched divisions over cultural issues, such as an Irish Language Act.
It provides for an institutional review committee to consider whether these new arrangements should continue to apply beyond the next Assembly election and to consider other aspects of the operational workings of Parts 3 and 4 of the 1998 Act.
With an Assembly election beckoning in 2022, the temptation is there for parties to resort to electorally rewarding zero-sum culture games.
The number of representatives in the Northern Ireland Assembly was agreed to be reduced, from six MLAs per Westminster constituency to five in time for the 2021 Assembly election.
Turnout was low for the Dec 6 National Assembly election, but the ruling Socialist Party enjoyed a landslide victory.