Northern Ireland 2011

[ObserverIE]

I agree with Tom! Complete and utter, murdering scum.

The mouthing off about the flag of a "foreign country" (which is what set off the Sinn Féin supporters) is insulting people well beyond the sort of Tricolour-brandishing Shinners who turn up at election counts, and is the sort of thing that even the DUP now avoid saying in public. The nearest analogy in a GB situation would be of a mainstream politician implying that second-generation British Asian voters were foreigners.

But then Tom Elliot has form when it comes to insulting his neighbours; a few years back, when the Fermanagh county Gaelic football team were beaten in the Ulster final (background: Fermanagh are the only county in Ulster never to have won the Ulster provincial title, so reaching the final was a big deal for them), he was quoted in the local paper the following week as being delighted because it put the team's (overwhelmingly Nationalist-voting) supporters back in their place.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I agree with Tom! Complete and utter, murdering scum.

I certainly hope your comment is a joke, if not I'd recommend trying to read history BEFORE 1970.

[minionofmidas]

Have you finally located some count details? If so, linky?

Oh, and I hope McClarty stays out of the UUP.

[Јas]

Have you finally located some count details? If so, linky?

Unfortunately not. The marginality details were nicked from Nicholas Whyte's blog.

[Јas]

By the by, NI Council Elections are being counted as of this morning.
Haven't been paying too much attention - may come back to them later.

[ObserverIE]

Count-by-count results are in today's Irish Times, although only on the dead-tree version as far as I can see.

[minionofmidas]

It is your duty to post. Also, alert the people at wikipedia.

[ObserverIE]

It is your duty to post. Also, alert the people at wikipedia.

I will be somewhat preoccupied for the next couple of hours with the quotidian necessities of earning a crust, but I will try to get something up in the form of a spreadsheet tonight or tomorrow.

[minionofmidas]

Wonderful!

[ObserverIE]

OK, the spreadsheet is at:

filefactory.com/file/cb3c656/n/NI_Assembly_Elections_2011.xls

You need to put in a h t t p : / / w w w . before that (I can't put in links directly for the moment because of the number of postings).

The figure given in North Down for Easton's transfer to Agnew is -187, so I've made a reasonable assumption as to what it's a misprint for.

Nicholas Whyte at the Ark elections site is likely to have more detailed data in the next few days (fractional transfers, etc.).

[minionofmidas]

Thanks, looking good.

[minionofmidas]

Perfectly cromulent Assembly election analysis... in Ulster Scots.

What's his issue with East Derry? Does he not like McClarty?

Given where all McClarty's getting transfers from, by the way... maybe he should just end the speculation by joining the Alliance.

[minionofmidas]

Perfectly cromulent Assembly election analysis... in Ulster Scots.

What's his issue with East Derry? Does he not like McClarty?

Not quite...he's broken hearted by their failure to elect Leslie Macauley...

Same thing... competing for the same seat really.

[minionofmidas]

      

[Јas]

 

Robert McConnell - one of the 3 men convited of murdering Turnley (and current vice chair of the West Belfast UUP) - failed to get elected to Belfast City Council in today's count.

[minionofmidas]

The pamphlet was just a random find on the internet, of course.

As to the election result: Might not make sense to nominate a convicted UVF murderer if your hopes of election rest on Catholic transfers. Even if he's been a blameless ward chairman for the past nine years.

[ObserverIE]

Detailed results now up at http://www.eoni.org.uk/index/elections/elections-2011/assembly-election-results-by-stage.htm

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Did anyone else watch Jim Allister make a fool of himself on his first day in the assembly?

[minionofmidas]

On why the UUP is banjaxed

Misses one very very obvious factor in the survival of an ultraunionist UUP vote in southwesterly parts of Northern Ireland.... and of course in why Fermanagh is a different country altogether.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I'm surprised APNI ended up with Employment of all things.

[Kevinstat]

On why the UUP is banjaxed

Misses one very very obvious factor in the survival of an ultraunionist UUP vote in southwesterly parts of Northern Ireland.... and of course in why Fermanagh is a different country altogether.

Care to share with the less informed of us what that obvious factor is?

[minionofmidas]

Anglicanism.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Here is the spending totals:

UUP - £96,000
DUP - £84,000
SF - £52,000
SDLP - £38,000
APNI - £29,000
UKIP - £18,176
TUV - £6,413
BNP - £3,181
PUP - £310



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14748465