Tag Archives: UUP

Westminster Election 2015: East Derry

The Results: Easy win for Gregory Campbell and DUP. Campbell is controversial. Increasingly playing to the loyalist gallery. Certainly three safe seats for DUP. The UUP clearly have a quota but the seat is currently held by an Independent Unionist. … Continue reading

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Westminster Election 2015: Foyle

The Results: There has been hype for years that Sinn Féin are closing in on the SDLP in Derry. But it was all smoke and mirrors. Mark Durkan scored an easy win. The margin suggests that SDLP will comfortably retain … Continue reading

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Westminster Election 2015: Strangford

The Results: A constituency where DUP votes are weighed, rather than counted. An easy win but the collapse of the UUP vote (Mike Nesbitt fought Strangford for UUP-Tories) collapsed and votes shed to UKIP, Alliance and Conservatives. In 2016, DUP … Continue reading

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Westminster Election 2015: Mid Ulster

The Results. An easy victory for Sinn Féin and little here to upset the narrative for 2016. No change. Sinn Féin will take three seats, UUP, DUP and SDLP one each. Interesting that there is clear blue water between Sandra … Continue reading

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Westminster Election 2015: East Belfast

The Results. It was of course a two-horse race. Right and proper that other parties stood. Democracy is about Choice. The political parties can choose to stand. The Voters (and it is about the Voters) have the choice to vote … Continue reading

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Westminster Election 2015: West Tyrone

First the results. In this seat, Pat Doherty veteran Sinn Féin MP was returned fairly easily but he did lose a lot of votes. His chief asset was that he was the Incumbent and that is always an asset. But … Continue reading

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Forecasting Elections

The strange thing about Norn Iron Elections is that the LetsGetAlongerists give me no time to enjoy them. A gentle reminder here to LetsGetAlongerists that the Alliance Party lost a seat in East Belfast last week.  Grief gets people in … Continue reading

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Poster Boys & Girls…#35 Julia Kee (UUP)

27th April. Abercorn Road, Derry. This poster of Julia Kee, UUP candidate for Foyle. I know nothing about her except she is described as a “community worker” on the UUP website.

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Poster Boys & Girls…#34 William McCandless (UUP)

27th April Coleraine. This poster of William McCandless, UUP candidate for East Derry is outside Dunnes Stores. I do not know anything about him except that he is a councillor based in Coleraine.

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Poster Boys & Girls…#29 Roy Beggs (UUP)

25th April. Circular Road, Larne. Roy Beggs MLA is the UUP candidate for East Antrim. Sometimes referred to as “Roy Beggs Junior” because his namesake father is a retired UUP politician. Holds a safe UUP seat in the Assembly.

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