I've just finished updating the Northern Ireland elections site with the results from the 2017 Assembly election and candidates for next month's Westminster election. (Also details from the 2011 referendum on the Alternative Vote and the 2016 Brexit referendum ( Read more... )

I am participating in today's BBC coverage of yesterday's Northern Ireland Assembly election (votes here are counted over the two days after the vote). It looks like the results will be much more interesting than I had anticipated - turnout is up in Nationalist and mixed areas, down in some of the more hardline Unionist areas. Initial indications ( Read more... )

We finish this tour of the Northern Ireland constituencies with South Belfast, where I grew up. It elected two Unionists in 2016 with 36.1% of first preferences, two Nationalists with 34.2%, one Alliance with 16.4% and one Green with 9.6%.

2016 resultDUP 8,081 (22.0%, -2.3%) 2 seats (+1 ( Read more... )

East Belfast elected four Unionists in 2016 with 56.7% of first preferences, and Alliance got the remaining two starting with 28.7%. The Nationalist vote was 2.9%.

2016 resultDUP 13,643 (36.7%, -7.3%) 3 seats ( Read more... )

North Belfast is the most divided part of the city, Unionists and Nationalists winning three seats each here in 2016 with 47.7% and 37.1% respectively.

2016 resultDUP 12,783 (35.0%, -2.1%) 3 seats ( Read more... )

Upper Bann stretches from the southern shore of Lough Neagh, through Lurgan, Craigavon and Portadown to Banbridge and my ancestral home of Loughbrickland. In 2016 Unionists won four seats with 59.3% of the vote, and Nationalists won two with 34.4%.

2016 resultDUP 14,188 (31.1%, +4.0%) 2 seats ( Read more... )

Fermanagh and South Tyrone is the south-western corner of Northern Ireland. In 2016, Nationalists and Unionists divided the seats three each, with Nationalists a whisker ahead in votes, 48.4% to 47.9%.

2016 resultDUP 15,403 (32.6%, +8.2%) 2 seats ( Read more... )

South Antrim unites Antrim town with the western fringes of Newtownabbey, running to the northen and northeastern shores of Lough Neagh. Unionists won four seats here in 2016 with 65.3% of the vote; Nationalists won one with 22.8%; and Alliance held theirs with 8.9%.

2016 resultDUP 13,188 (37.5%, -0.8%) 3 seats ( Read more... )

West Tyrone includes the towns of Strabane and Omagh. In 2016, the Nationalist parties won four seats with 53% of the vote and transfers from Nationalist-leaning independents, and Unionists won the other two with 33.5%.

2016 resultDUP 8,534 (22.0%, -1.1%) 1 seat ( Read more... )

East Londonderry includes the towns of Coleraine and Limavady. In 2016, Unionists won four seats with 63.6% of the vote, and Nationalists won the other two with 31.3%.

2016 resultDUP 12,674 (36.8%, -0.1%) 3 seats ( Read more... )