11.   Northern Ireland already has elected an assembly.

12.   Northern Ireland has already elected an assembly.

13.   The assembly was elected last year.

14.   The existing assembly was elected by more than one million people under reforms engineered by Patten.

15.   The incoming government promises a new assembly will be elected within a year.

16.   The party was routed earlier this month in two large southern Indian states which elected new assemblies.

17.   There is no advantage in an electoral pact for except in local councils all national and provincial assemblies are elected on a proportional list system.

18.   Almost two months after the assembly was elected, the province still has no top political institutions.

19.   The territorial assembly is elected by universal suffrage every five years.

20.   They will also elect assemblies for the two divided halves of Bosnia-Hercegovina -- the Moslem-Croat Federation and the Serb Republic.