Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, 88 University Street, Belfast, BT7 1HE

The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is a non-sectarian political party, and the fifth-largest in the Province. The party stresses its cross-community appeal, and is supportive of the Good Friday agreement. It attracts middle-class support, and is allied with the British Liberal Democrats. The party picked up seven seats in the 108-seat Assembly in the 2007 elections, up from the 6 it had won in both 2003 and 1998 (source: www.cain.ulster.ac.uk; www.allianceparty.org)

The Party has an affiliated youth branch called Alliance Youth