Political Representation
Northern Ireland currently has the following political representation:
- the Northern Ireland Assembly has 108 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) (currently 55 unionists, 45 nationalists, 9 others), which had its powers restored on 8 May 2007.
- 18 seats in the United Kingdom House of Commons (currently 9 unionist MPs, 8 nationalist MPs and 1 cross community MP)
- there are several unionists but no nationalists or republicans on the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (see List of Northern Ireland members of the Privy Council).
- three seats in the European Parliament (currently two unionist, one republican)
- at local level there are currently 26 district councils - on 22 November 2005 Peter Hain, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced proposals to reduce the number of councils to seven.
Read more about this topic: Demography And Politics Of Northern Ireland
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