Northern Ireland local elections, 2005
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Elections for local government
Local government in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is divided into 26 districts for local government purposes. In Northern Ireland local councils do not carry out the same range of functions as those in the rest of the United Kingdom, for example they have no responsibility for education, for road building or for housing...

 were held in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

 on 5 May 2005 along with the 2005 general election across the entire United Kingdom and local elections in England.

Results

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Party Councillors Votes
Change Total % share Total
+51 182 30 208,278
+18 126 23 163,205
-39 115 18 126,317
-16 101 17 121,991
+2 30 5 35,149
-14 20 4 27,677
+3 3 1 5,703
-2 2 1 4,591
United Unionist
United Unionist Coalition
The United Unionist Coalition, formerly known as the United Unionist Assembly Party, was formed by three unionist members of the Northern Ireland Assembly who were elected as "independent unionists" in 1998. They were Fraser Agnew, Boyd Douglas and Denis Watson...

0 2 0.3 2,064
Newtownabbey Ratepayers
Newtownabbey Ratepayers Association
The Newtownabbey Ratepayers' Association was a minor political party operating in Newtownabbey, Northern IrelandIt has contest elections for Newtownabbey Borough Council from 1997 to 2005 and registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission in 2001.The party had 2 councillors elected...

0 1 0.3 1,897
0 0 0.2 1,321
0 0 0.2 1,164
0 0 0.1 1,052
0 0 0.1 828
-1 0 0.1 738
-2 0 0.1 734

Belfast

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Court
Court (District Electoral Area)
Court is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the west of the city, the district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Crumlin; Glencairn; Highfield; Shankill and Woodvale...

Party Candidate 1st Pref
Diane Dodds
Diane Dodds
Diane Dodds is a Democratic Unionist Party politician from Northern Ireland, and a Member of the European Parliament for the Northern Ireland constituency.-Career:...

4,176
Hugh Smyth
Hugh Smyth
Cllr Hugh Smyth is a former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party. He is a long-serving member of Belfast City Council and former Lord Mayor of Belfast. He is also the longest-serving member of the council, having represented the Upper Shankill areas since 1973...

799
Frank McCoubrey
Frank McCoubrey
Frank McCoubrey is a Unionist politician and loyalist in Northern Ireland, as well as a community activist and researcher. He is a leading member of the Ulster Political Research Group and a member of Belfast City Council, representing the Court area...

794
William Humphrey 679
Chris McGimpsey 575
Francis Hamilton 249
Elaine McMillen 221
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

7,726
Democratic Unionist
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...

 gain from Ulster Unionist
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...


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Pottinger
Pottinger (District Electoral Area)
Pottinger is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the east of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballymacarrett; Bloomfield; Orangefield; Ravenhill; The Mount and Woodstock.The wards of Ravenhill...

Party Candidate 1st Pref
Sammy Wilson
Sammy Wilson
Samuel Wilson is a politician from Northern Ireland who is a Member of Parliament and a Member of the Legislative Assembly for East Antrim. He served as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1986 – 1987; and again from June 2000 to June 2001. He was the first person from the Democratic Unionist Party ...

2,385
Reg Empey
Reg Empey
Reginald Norman Morgan Empey, Baron Empey of Shandon, OBE, – known as Sir Reg Empey prior to 2011 – is a former Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for East Belfast...

1,968
May Campbell 1,302
David Ervine
David Ervine
David Ervine was a Northern Irish politician and the leader of the Progressive Unionist Party .-Biography:...

1,156
Deborah Devenny 944
Máire Hendron 795
Margaret McKenzie 717
Mary Muldoon 670
Sonia Copeland 277
Thomas Black 163
Joseph Bell 105
Henry Wallace 72
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

10,935
Democratic Unionist
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...

 gain from Ulster Unionist
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...

Alliance
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is a liberal and nonsectarian political party in Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's fifth-largest party overall, with eight seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly and one in the House of Commons....

 gain from Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...


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Victoria
Victoria (District Electoral Area)
Victoria is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the east of the city, the district elects seven members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballyhackamore; Belmont; Cherryvalley; Island; Knock; Stormont; and Sydenham...

Party Candidate 1st Pref
Wallace Browne 2,689
Naomi Long 2,565
Jim Rodgers 2,441
Robin Newton
Robin Newton
Robin Newton is a Unionist politician for the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland. He is an MLA for East Belfast. Newton was sworn in as a Junior Minister within the Office of First and deputy First Minister on 1 July 2009...

2,004
Ian Adamson
Ian Adamson
Cllr Ian Adamson OBE is a former Lord Mayor of Belfast. He is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and is a retired medical doctor.A serving Councillor on Belfast City Council from 1989 until 2011, Adamson was Lord Mayor in 1996....

1,877
Mervyn Jones 811
David Rodway 725
Alan Crowe 459
John Ó Doherty 340
John McQuillan 303
Peter Gray 243
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

14,806
Democratic Unionist
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...

 gain from Ulster Unionist
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...


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Balmoral
Balmoral (District Electoral Area)
Balmoral is the most southern of nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Blackstaff; Finaghy; Malone; Musgrave; Upper Malone and Windsor...

Party Candidate 1st Pref
Carmel Hanna
Carmel Hanna
Carmel Hanna MLA is a Northern Irish politician. She is a member of the SDLP and was MLA for South Belfast from 1998 to 2010.-Early life and nursing career:...

2,030
Tom Ekin
Tom Ekin
Tom Ekin is a politician and business owner in Northern Ireland.Ekin joined the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and was elected to Belfast City Council at the Northern Ireland local elections, 1997. From 2000 until 2002, he served as the Chairperson of Alliance.Ekin held his seat with an...

1,508
Jim Kirkpatrick
Jim Kirkpatrick
Jim Kirkpatrick is a Unionist politician who has represented the Ulster Unionist Party three times and the Democratic Unionist Party twice. He sat in the 1982 Assembly and is currently a Belfast City councillor for the UUP....

1,473
Stiofán Long 1,202
Bob Stoker
Bob Stoker
Bob Stoker is a Ulster Unionist Party politician and former Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for South Belfast.He was elected to Northern Ireland Forum for Belfast South in May 1996....

1,180
Ruth Patterson 1,130
Esmond Birnie
Esmond Birnie
Dr John Esmond Birnie, is an author, economist, and Ulster Unionist Party politician. He is a former Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Belfast....

1,125
Mary Kennedy 943
Bernie Kelly 906
Thomas Wilson 213
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

11,902
Democratic Unionist
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...

 gain from Ulster Unionist
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...


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Castle
Castle (District Electoral Area)
Castle is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the north of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Bellevue; Castleview; Cavehill; Chichester Park; Duncairn and Fortwilliam...

Party Candidate 1st Pref
Nigel Dodds
Nigel Dodds
Nigel Alexander Dodds, OBE, MP, BL is a barrister and Northern Irish unionist politician. He is Member of Parliament for Belfast North, and deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and from 1993 has been General Secretary of the DUP...

3,161
Pat Convery
Pat Convery
Patrick Convery , known as Pat Convery, is an Irish Nationalist politician who sits as a Social Democratic and Labour Party Councillor on Belfast City Council, County Antrim. Convery was elected Lord Mayor of Belfast on 1 June 2010 and his term will continue until June 2011...

1,818
David Browne 1,148
Cathal Mullaghan 1,136
Tierna Cunningham 1,029
David Kennedy 1,001
Sarah Patterson 618
Ian Crozier 438
Marjorie Hawkins 270
Shane Ó Heorpa 183
John Lavery 112
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

11,167
No change

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Oldpark
Oldpark (District Electoral Area)
Oldpark is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the west of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ardoyne; Ballysillan; Cliftonville; Legoniel; New Lodge and Water Works...

Party Candidate 1st Pref
Nelson McCausland
Nelson McCausland
Nelson McCausland, MLA is a unionist politician from Northern Ireland. He is the current Minister for Social Development in the Northern Irish Government.-Education:...

2,642
Daniel Lavery 2,093
Margaret McCleneghan 1,829
Alban Maginness
Alban Maginness
Alban Maginness is a Nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.Maginness was born in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. He completed his secondary education at St. Malachy's College, Belfast. He then attended the New University of Ulster and subsequently Queen's University of Belfast where...

1,411
Carál Ní Chuilín 1,242
Fred Cobain
Fred Cobain
Fred Cobain, MBE is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland and was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 until 2011.Cobain was first elected to Belfast City Council in 1985. He served as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1990-1991...

938
Andrew Harding 476
Mary Mackessy 467
Billy Hutchinson
Billy Hutchinson
Billy Hutchinson is the leader of the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland. He was elected to Belfast City Council in 1997 and to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998. He lost his assembly seat in 2003 and his council seat in 2005...

455
Peter Emerson 249
Paul Treanor 60
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

12,191
Ulster Unionist
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...

 gain from Progressive Unionist
Progressive Unionist Party
The Progressive Unionist Party is a small unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was formed from the Independent Unionist Group operating in the Shankill area of Belfast, becoming the PUP in 1979...


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Laganbank
Laganbank (District Electoral Area)
Laganbank is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the south of the city, the district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballynafeigh; Botanic; Shaftesbury; Stranmillis and Rosetta...

Party Candidate 1st Pref
Alex Maskey
Alex Maskey
Alex Maskey is an Irish politician who was the first member of Sinn Féin to serve as Belfast's Lord Mayor. He is Sinn Féin's longest sitting councillor and is currently an MLA for South Belfast as well as being a councillor for the Laganbank area of Belfast.-Early life:Maskey was educated at St...

1,600
Patrick McCarthy
Patrick McCarthy (politician)
Patrick McCarthy is a Northern Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party politician and member of Belfast City Council.First elected to the council in 2001 for Laganbank he was chosen as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2006. McCarthy, the city's fourth nationalist mayor, was endorsed by all parties except...

1,459
Peter O'Reilly 1,376
Christopher Stalford 1,362
Michael McGimpsey
Michael McGimpsey
Michael McGimpsey MLA is an Ulster Unionist Party Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast South who has twice served in the Northern Ireland Executive...

1,332
Alan Leonard 859
Andrew Frew 369
Paula Bradshaw 364
James Barbour 175
Patrick Lynn 107
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

9,208
Democratic Unionist
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...

 gain from Ulster Unionist
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...


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Upper Falls
Upper Falls (District Electoral Area)
Upper Falls is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the west of the city, the district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Andersonstown; Falls Park; Glen Road; Glencolin; and Ladybrook. Upper Falls forms part of the...

Party Candidate 1st Pref
Paul Maskey
Paul Maskey
Paul John Maskey is an Irish republican politician in Northern Ireland who is a member of Sinn Féin. He has been a Sinn Féin member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast West since 2007, and was elected in June 2011 as Member of Parliament for the Westminster constituency of Belfast West,...

3,084
Tim Attwood 2,815
Gerard O'Neill 2,448
Michael Browne 2,257
Christine Mhic Giolla Mhín 1,428
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Mhín 571
Roisin Mulholland 413
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

13,453
No change

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Lower Falls
Lower Falls (District Electoral Area)
Lower Falls is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the west of the city, the district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Beechmount; Clonard; Falls; Upper Springfield; and Whiterock. Lower Falls forms part of the...

Party Candidate 1st Pref
Janice Austin 2,071
Fra McCann
Fra McCann
Fra McCann is an Irish politician. McCann became active in the Irish republican movement and during the 1970s was jailed on a number of occasions...

2,045
Tom Hartley
Tom Hartley
Tom Hartley is a historian and Irish republican politician.Hartley grew up in the Falls Road area of Belfast and became a republican activist in the late 1960s. In 1970, he was imprisoned in the Crumlin Road gaol for ten months for riotous behaviour; he was again imprisoned in 1978...

1,962
Máire Cush 1,764
Margaret Walsh 1,265
Marie Moore 1,245
John Lowry
John Lowry
For the 19th-century baseball player, see John Lowry .John Lowry is the General Secretary of the Workers' Party in Ireland. He is a native of the Lower Falls area of Belfast....

314
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

11,058
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

 gain from Social Democratic and Labour
Social Democratic and Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party is a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. Its basic party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom...


Derry

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Waterside
Party Candidate 1st Pref
Gregory Campbell
Gregory Campbell
Gregory Campbell may refer to:*Gregory Campbell , Northern Ireland*Gregory Campbell , Canadian*Greg Campbell , Australian cricketer*Greg Campbell , American non-fiction author...

1,521
Gerard Diver 1,508
Joe Miller
Joe Miller
Joe Miller was an English actor, who first appeared in the cast of Sir Robert Howard's Committee at Drury Lane in 1709 as Teague....

1,187
Lynn Fleming 1,084
Mary Hamilton 1,017
Drew Thompson 986
Mildred Garfield 883
Martin Reilly 567
Jim Logue 447
David McAuley 194
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

9,602
No change
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Rural
Party Candidate 1st Pref
William Hay
William Hay
Captain William Hay CB was the second and last junior Joint Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, one of two heads of the London Metropolitan Police....

1,413
Thomas Conway 1,368
Maurice Devenney 1,275
Paul Fleming 1,137
Liam Boyle 1,015
James McKeever 675
Thomas McGlinchey 623
Ernest Hamilton 533
Earl Storey 450
Thomas Harty 381
Eamonn McCann
Eamonn McCann
Eamonn McCann is an Irish journalist, author and political activist.-Life:McCann was born and has lived most of his life in Derry. He was educated at St. Columb's College in the city. He is prominently featured in the documentary film The Boys of St...

371
Annie Courtney 369
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

9,817
Democratic Unionist
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...

 gain from Ulster Unionist
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...

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Northland
Party Candidate 1st Pref
Mark Durkan
Mark Durkan
Mark Durkan is an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland who was leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party from 2001 to 2010.-Early life:...

2,369
Gerry MacLochlainn 1,124
Helen Quigley 1,079
Billy Page 1,001
Maeve McLaughlin 849
Seana Hume 788
John Kerr 653
Sean Carr 637
Joanne McDaid 630
Sharon Duddy 486
Colm Bryce 353
Oisín Kehoe 221
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

10,470
No change
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Shantallow
Party Candidate 1st Pref
Mary Bradley
Mary Bradley
Mary Bradley is a politician from Northern Ireland.In 1985, she was elected to Derry City Council, representing the Social Democratic and Labour Party , and from 1991-92 she served as the Mayor of Derry...

2,180
Colum Eastwood 1,311
Elisha McLaughlin 1,264
Gearóid Ó hEára 1,119
Shaun Gallagher 1,119
Tony Hassan 925
Oliver Green 798
Helena Kearney 627
Tommy Mullan 340
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

9,910
No change
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Cityside
Party Candidate 1st Pref
Peter Anderson 997
Pat Ramsey
Pat Ramsey
Pat Ramsey MLA is a Social Democratic and Labour Party politician from Derry, Northern Ireland.He is a former Mayor of Derry and was elected as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly....

980
Patricia Logue 801
Barney O'Hagan 763
Jim Clifford 722
Kevin Campbell 696
Gary Donnelly 493
Liam Boyle 488
Liam Friel 182
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

6,344
No change
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