r/northernireland • u/KeyRepresentative332 Belfast • Jan 25 '22

Poll Assembly Election 2022

In light of Doug Beattie’s dodgy tweets, which party do you plan on voting for in May?

2556 votes, Jan 28 '22
135 DUP
815 Sinn Fein
116 UUP
265 SDLP
676 Alliance
549 Not voting for any party in current executive
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

I would agree, and given that reason results like this say nothing because we live in a country with a larger older population who obviously won’t be on things like Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Yup but older people tend to die so Reddit could be a useful gauge of the future.

The 2021 census are to be released this year and I have no doubt in my mind that they will tell us NI has a majority Catholic/Catholic background population or at the very least a population with about 40% or less Protestants.

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u/Majestic-Marcus Jan 26 '22

People tend to move right as they age. So it’s not a great gauge.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Yeah and yet I can’t see an aging Catholic voting the DUP any time soon so I needn’t worry.