4. The Governance of Northern Ireland 108 Elected Members including Speaker & Deputy Speakers First and Deputy First Ministers Assembly Executive Committee ‘Cabinet’ 10 Executive Department Ministers The Committee System
7. 108 Members of the Assembly elected 7 March 2007 Social Democratic and Labour Party 16 Democratic Unionist Party 36 Ulster Unionist Party 18 The Alliance Party 7 Progressive Unionist Party 1 Green Party 1 Independent 1 Sinn Fein 28 Total = 108 MLAs
8. Political Party Designations as of Mar 2007 Unionist community Nationalist community UUP SDLP DUP SF APNI PUP Indep . Political parties Others Speaker GP