The latest findings of the North and South poll explores what an all-island party system might look like
Among Protestants, working-class men are the least likely to say “don’t know”. They indicate a strongly negative evaluation of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill and DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson. Northern Catholics feel positively about Sinn Féin, as northern Protestants do about the DUP. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Alliance voters give a negative score of four or higher to all of the other parties. So, they are unlikely to desert to any of them. Alliance, however, is at least somewhat positively evaluated by one set of party voters, Sinn Féin voters in the North. Alliance voters do not return the favour to Sinn Féin , but they are closer to Sinn Féin than they are to the DUP .
Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar with Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald. In the context of an all-island polity these two old Civil War rivals may look increasingly like the same party. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/EPA Our focus on the “big five” parties is, of course, a simplification of a more complex picture. Smaller parties, both North and South, will not simply exit the political stage. The DUP will face competition from the Ulster Unionist Party and Traditional Unionist Voice .
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