Tag Archives: Westminster Election 2015

Westminster Election 2015: South Belfast

Posted on May 16, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

The Results: South Belfast is a strange consituency. At Assembly level, the six seats are held by five different parties. The sixth seat is held by SDLP. Much has been made of the fact that Alasdair McDonnell has won the … Continue reading →

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Westminster Election 2015: Newry & Armagh

Posted on May 16, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

The Results: Mickey Brady of Sinn Féin won but it seemed as much to do with Incumbency than anything else. In the early part of the campaign, SDLP felt they were making a lot of progress but ultimately the Unionist … Continue reading →

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Westminster Election 2015: North Down

Posted on May 16, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

The Results: Easy for Sylvia Hermon. Her voters come from all “Assembly” Parties. Its almost as if North Down has decided to be apolitical…at least at Westminster level. If Sylvia Hermon endorsed a candidate in 2016, the candidate would certainly … Continue reading →

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Westminster Election 2015: Upper Bann

Posted on May 16, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

The Results: A win for David Simpson. This is a seat that UUP want “back”. Simpson and DUP took the seat in a bitter contrst with David Trimble in 2005. Sinn Féin built their entire campaign around Demographics and claiming … Continue reading →

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Westminster Election 2015: East Antrim

Posted on May 16, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

The Results: Sammy Wilson won easily enough but the DUP vote slipped. UUP andAlliance clearly have one quota each and DUP at least two. In the contrxt of an Assembly contest, there is probably a nationalist seat (currently held by … Continue reading →

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Westminster Election 2015: West Tyrone

Posted on May 12, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

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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Poster Boys & Girls…#17 Stephen Cooper (TUV)

Posted on April 22, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

14th April. Newtownards, County Down. Stephen Cooper, Traditional Unionist Voice candidate for Strangford. He is a councillor based in Comber and a former member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.

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The Sturgeon Revolution: The Edinburgh Spring

Posted on April 18, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

I was always a politics nerd. I suppose the first Westminster election that I ever watched “thru the night” was in 1964. I was 12 years old. It was a narrow Labour win. Then..1966 (Labour) , 1970 (Tory win..the first in … Continue reading →

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SDLP South Belfast Campaign Launched

Posted on April 15, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Last night. Malone House Hotel, Belfast. Alasdair McDonnell was in pretty good form officially launching the South Belfast Campaign.   Fearghal McKinney MLA made a short speech (first pic) before Alasdair spoke. There is a good mood in SDLP these … Continue reading →

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Poster Boys & Girls…#6 Alban Maginness (SDLP)

Posted on April 6, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Saturday 4th April 2015. Glengormley. Thanks to my (free travel) Translink Pass…a bus ride from Belfast for a walk around Glengormley. Quite a surprise to see so many SDLP posters for North Belfast candidate, Alban Maginness. Beginning (amusingly) at Clifton … Continue reading →

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