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Northern Ireland local and European Elections

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  • #52
    mcc1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭mcc1


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27551178









    Rumours of SF's demise are greatly exaggerated methinks.

    They are the biggest party regarding 1st preference votes yes as expected really because of the amount off Unionist parties up for election splitting their 1st preferences. But when transfer votes come into play they lose out bigtime. DUP clearly got more when that came into play. Hence why they have more seats and are the largest party.

    In the last council elections in 2011 Nationalist parties got around 40K less votes than Unionist parties. They fell to about 80k short this time round. Unionist vote went up slightly by around about 10k votes, wereas Nationalist votes were down by around 30k votes which is massive.

    They will try put a brave face on it though, but deep down its been a bad election for Republicans. Wasnt there suppose to be a United Ireland by now? Thats what we were all told over a decade ago. Instead even though Unionist turnout in elections have been poor for quite a while Nationalists are now losing ground even with all the demographic changes. Not a good sign for the United Ireland pipedream.

    I suppose it all fits in though with all the recent opinion polls that say more and more young people from Nationalist backgrounds want to remain in the Uk so it really shouldn't shock me or you I suppose.


  • #53
    karma_
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,798 ✭✭✭karma_


    Lastlight. wrote: »
    DUP and UUP should come together for General Election and unite the Unionist vote more. Hopefully the SDLP can improve in the next 12 months. The TUV did well, obviously many Ulster Protestants see them as a good option. PUP also improved. Good to see but we need to unite more for the General Election and occupy the Unionist vote in a few parties.

    The divisions just run too deep for that to happen in any meaningful way, as surprising as some might find it there are elements within unionism that absolutely despise one another and this makes any kind of pan-unionist party impossible.


  • #54
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,575 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Martina Anderson elected on the 1st count :)


  • #55
    mcc1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭mcc1


    A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »
    Martina Anderson elected on the 1st count :)

    As expected due to the split in Unionist 1st preference votes. After transfers, Unionists will still take 2 of the 3 seats.


  • #56
    ardmacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    mcc1 wrote: »
    They are the biggest party regarding 1st preference votes yes as expected really because of the amount off Unionist parties up for election splitting their 1st preferences. But when transfer votes come into play they lose out bigtime. DUP clearly got more when that came into play. Hence why they have more seats and are the largest party.

    In the last council elections in 2011 Nationalist parties got around 40K less votes than Unionist parties. They fell to about 80k short this time round. Unionist vote went up slightly by around about 10k votes, wereas Nationalist votes were down by around 30k votes which is massive.

    They will try put a brave face on it though, but deep down its been a bad election for Republicans. Wasnt there suppose to be a United Ireland by now? Thats what we were all told over a decade ago. Instead even though Unionist turnout in elections have been poor for quite a while Nationalists are now losing ground even with all the demographic changes. Not a good sign for the United Ireland pipedream.

    I suppose it all fits in though with all the recent opinion polls that say more and more young people from Nationalist backgrounds want to remain in the Uk so it really shouldn't shock me or you I suppose.

    This is nonsense. These variations have to do with turnout differences where half the people don't vote anyway, so you can't draw any conclusions of any real consequence from them.


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