Posted By: May 08, 2016
A number of high-profile MLAs have failed to retain their seats at Stormont, following the latest election.Story by UTV Staff, Belfast. May 7, 2016Dolores Kelly of the SDLP was neck-and-neck with Sinn Féin’s John O’Dowd to clinch the last seat in Upper Bann, but lost out narrowly in the end.John McCallister, formerly of NI21 but running as an […]
Posted By: May 08, 2016
By Maurice Kennedy. Fermanagh Herald. May 7, 2016 m.kennedy@fermanaghherald.comAll elected and, hands up, it was hard to see this coming – a spectacular twist in the tale in the last throes of this election with UUP transfers getting Richie McPhillips over the line ahead of Sinn Fein’s John Feely.Clearly there’s no love lost locally between the two nationalist parties. In McPhillips […]
Posted By: May 08, 2016
Brian Feeney. Irish News(Belfast). Saturday, May 7, 2016 The headlines are the startling votes the Trotskyist People Before Profit’s northern wing won in West Belfast and Derry.That’s OK if you’re counting gains in terms of percentage share of the vote rather than in seats. At a very early stage it was quite clear that the governing coalition of Sinn Féin […]
Posted By: May 08, 2016
JOHN MANLEY. Irish News (Belfast). May 7, 2016 01:00 ELECTORAL support for nationalist parties is continuing to flag, with votes cast for Sinn Féin and the SDLP falling significantly since 2011.While overall turnout in Thursday’s poll dropped by less than one percentage point compared with the last assembly election, the combined nationalist vote fell by more than five per cent.With a 36 […]
Posted By: May 07, 2016
Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, May 7, 2016When about half the electorate abstains from voting on a bright spring day and Gerry Carroll tops the poll in West Belfast, you can only assume that Stormont’s failure to deliver has finally come home to roost.It may not quite be a northern uprising but the election results show that while Sinn Féin and […]