Country Profile:
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Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: Queen ELIZABETH II
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Anthony (Tony) BLAIR
- Assembly: Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) has a unicameral Northern Ireland Assembly with 108 seats.
Description of electoral system:
- The Queen is inherited N/A.
- In the Northern Ireland Assembly 108 members are elected by proportional representation to serve 5-year terms.***
*** Six representatives are elected in each of the region's 18 constituencies.
Population:
- Population: 1,700,000
Past elections
- Parliamentary - March 7, 2007
- Parliamentary - November 26, 2003
- Referendum - May 22, 1998
Last Updated on 02/05/2010
