South Antrim now confirmed as DUP hold, West Tyrone all but confirmed as SF anf DUP gains from SDLP and UUP (Deehan 500 behind with half remaining transfers from DUP pile).
As I see it, that makes it.
DUP 36
SF 28
UUP 18
SDLP 16
Alliance 7
Green 1
PUP 1
Ind 1
Cabinet will be 4 DUP, 3 SF, 2 UUP, 1 SDLP.
Disastrous election for Unionism, with exactly half the seats only. The DUP throw away seats in North Belfast, South Belfast, West Belfast and South Antrim on ]preventable grounds.
Left-Right +0.5; Authoritarian-Libertarian -7.7.
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I make it half the seats plus one, unless you're excluding the PUP.Originally Posted by Sammy Morse
Is this accurate. I would imagine that the DUP may be slightly dissapointed with that. Yesterday they were saying 36 as a minimum. The Stoops will be devastated with this.
Would have been even better with a 50/50 split between nationalists and unionists in cabinet.Those pesky stoops..
anyone know where u can get the details of the individual counts in the 6 county elections? ta
Not really true. Apart from the one PUP seat, there's also 7 Alliance seats - and the Alliance vote is overwhelmingly Unionist.
"Elite - a small superior group; esp one that has a power out of proportion to its size." (Oxford English Dictionary)
The majority cannot therefore be the elite.
rte.ie are carrying the transfer votes as they happen.
Thanks for keeping us up to date Sammy!
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No, a disasterous election for the UUP. It's been a good election for unionism as a whole. In the last Executive Unionists and Nationalists/Republicans were both entitled to 5 ministries. After today it will be 6-4 for Unionistists.
North and South Belfast were just about winnable, West Belfast wasn't even with the increase in vote share because of the SF/IRA vote management. Getting 50% of the seats with under 35% of the vot in South Antrim was never on the cards.The DUP throw away seats in North Belfast, South Belfast, West Belfast and South Antrim on ]preventable grounds.
On the other hand the DUP have done the best bit of vote management in any constituency in this election, turning 50% of the votes into 67% of the seats in Strangford. That's a whopping 17% seat bonus, and no once can match that.
My dogma was run over by my karma. Economic Left/Right: 2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.03
In normal circumstances this election-result would be a complete gridlock and there could not be a workable government.
However, as things stand, DUP and SF will have to co-operate and there will have to be a government-agreement by March 26th. Otherwise, the Assembly will be scrapped and the province will be jointly-led from London and Dublin without listening to the local politicians; the so-called plan B, and nobody in NI wants that to happen. DUP and SF will sit around the same table and form a government even though they`d like to kill each other.
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