With the DUP under pressure, Sinn Féin could overtake it to have the greatest number of seats at council, Assembly and Westminster level
With the DUP under pressure, Sinn Féin could overtake it to have the greatest number of seats at council, Assembly and Westminster levelOf all Northern elections, this is the one most likely to be viewed through the constitutional lens. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wirethat took everybody by surprise, and with just over a week to go until polling day, it feels as if
“The sum of the parts is actually a very interesting contest, but it’s not registering as such because people think, we all know who’s going to win overall,” says Jon Tonge, professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool.. There are many polls out there, and they put Labour comfortably ahead; the debate less about whether Labour will win, but by how much.
Add to this the first-past-the-post nature of a general election – and the fact that most local decisions are made in Stormont, not Westminster, because of devolution – and it means that, of all Northern elections, this is the one most likely to be viewed through the constitutional lens.“The unionist who can win,” is Buckley’s slogan; the only decision that matters, he is saying, is between a unionist or a non-unionist.
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