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- Sinn Féin is now the largest party across Northern Ireland's councils, assembly and at Westminster.
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Some parties, such as Sinn Féin and the Workers' Party, are organised on an all- Ireland basis. Others such as the Conservative Party are organised on an all-United Kingdom basis. There are many Northern Ireland-specific parties and these, on the whole, predominate.
Jul 5, 2024 · Sinn Féin is now the largest party across Northern Ireland's councils, assembly and at Westminster. The nationalist party, which does not take its seats in the House of Commons, has seven seats...
May 7, 2022 · Sinn Féin will be the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time, pushing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) into second place. Sinn Féin has 27 seats, compared to the...
May 8, 2022 · The Alliance Party, led by Naomi Long seen in the centre, made big gains in the election. For the first time, the Alliance Party has become the third-biggest in the Northern Ireland assembly...
Jul 5, 2024 · Sinn Fein has won the most Northern Ireland seats at Westminster for the first time. It marks a historic hat-trick for the party which is already the largest in local government and at Stormont.
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Jun 13, 2024 · Unlike Northern Ireland's two biggest parties, Alliance is cross-community: neither Irish nationalist like Sinn Fein nor pro-unionist like the DUP.
Its new leader, John Alderdice, polled 32.0% of the vote in East Belfast, while Alliance came within 15,000 votes of both the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin across Northern Ireland. In 1996 Alderdice accepted a peerage, becoming the Alliance Party's only representation in Parliament.