Electoral/Political Party Reform – 1998

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Before the Good Friday Agreement in 2008, elections of the Northern Ireland Assembly were held based on the Proportional Representation Single Transferable Vote or PR (STV) electoral system. As a matter of fact, Northern Ireland had this electoral system in place since 1985, the year in which the 1962 Election Lat Act (Part 4 of Schedule 1) was changed to a PR (STV) electoral system in the local elections.2 The 1998 elections were held based on a PR (STV) electoral system.