Alliance gained nine seats. All east of the Bann (counting Upper Bann). West of the Bann, there are six out of the 18 constituencies, and it is looking likely that they will have no change in party s… (View Post)

What do you mean? Of course 90%+ of UK voters are not clear because they have never used this system. In jurisdictions where the system is used regularly, it works fine. (View Post)

SF have been in the mid-30s there for many months. Fine Gael nearly got an absolute majority on 35% in 2011. This was helped by a massive lead over the 2nd place party amid vote fragmentation - which… (View Post)

When you add in the mini-parties like Aontú the split in NI is 42% unionist, 40% nationalist, 18% other (of which three-quarters is now Alliance). (View Post)

DUP fielded three candidates who attained similar first preference votes, Alliance fielded only two and the vote was quite imbalanced between them. (View Post)