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The ongoing political crisis which has left the North without a functioning Assembly or Executive for more than a year due to the DUP’s protest over post-Brexit trading arrangements has overshadowed a low-key election campaign.Some turnout figures are starting to come through for individual District Electoral Areas – the individual wards that make up each council area, writes Freya McClements.
It also looks as if predictions of higher turnout in nationalist areas – which was also the case in 2019 – have held up. Bangor man Alan Graham became arguably the best known farmer in Northern Ireland some years back whenafter he realised a film crew he had permitted on to his land was filming the music video for We Found Love in his one of his fields in 2011. Graham is hoping to regain his seat for the DUP in Ards and North Down after losing it in 2019.
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