Posts Tagged ‘ UKIP ’

Northern Ireland Assembly Election 2011

April 13, 2011
By Stephen
Northern Ireland Assembly Election 2011

This year the people of Northern Ireland will go to the polls to elect 108 MLA’s to the Northern Ireland Assembly on May 5th. The current standings of the parties are as follows: Democratic Unionist Party: 36 Sinn Fein: 27 Ulster Unionist Party: 18 Social Democratic and Labour Party: 16 Alliance Party: 7 Green Party: 1 Independents: 5 The campaign is well under way since the Assembly was dissolved on 24th of March and a number of issues have...

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UK: Will there be a BNP breakthrough?

May 10, 2009
By Stephen
UK: Will there be a BNP breakthrough?

Image by Getty Images via Daylife There is a lot of talk in the UK at the moment of the possibility of a BNP breakthrough at the European Elections like UKIP last time out. Two recent surveys don’t point that way. Two surveys have the BNP polling at about the 4% mark. According to the YouGov poll in the Sunday Times the BNP are polling at 4% (nc) and according to Predict 09 it is polling at 4.4% (-0.5%...

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