Northern Ireland Belfast Agreement referendum, 1998

Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement referendum, 1998

Do you support the agreement reached at the multi-party talks on Northern Ireland and set out in Command Paper 3883?

Location

Date

22 May 1998

Results
	Votes	%
Yes	676,966	7001711200000000000♠71.12%
No	274,879	7001288800000000000♠28.88%
Valid votes	951,845	7001998100000000000♠99.81%
Invalid or blank votes	1,738	6999180000000000000♠0.18%
Total votes	953,683	100.00%
Registered voters/turnout	1,175,403	7001811400000000000♠81.14%

The Good Friday Agreement referendum, 1998 was a referendum held in Northern Ireland over whether there was support for the Good Friday Agreement. The result was a majority (71.1%) in favour. A simultaneous referendum held in the Republic of Ireland produced an even larger majority (94.4%) in favour.

All the main UK political parties (Labour, Conservative, and Liberal Democrat) supported the Yes campaign, though the local branch of the Conservatives supported the No campaign. Of the local Northern Ireland parties represented in the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, the Ulster Unionist Party, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Sinn Féin, Alliance, Progressive Unionist Party, Ulster Democratic Party, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and local "Labour" groups supported the proposals.

The only two parties in the Forum to campaign against the Agreement were the Democratic Unionist Party and the UK Unionist Party, though many prominent individuals in the Ulster Unionists also did so. Some minor parties campaigned against it. Republican Sinn Féin, which at the time did not run candidates in Northern Ireland, still opposes the agreement.

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