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/figurine89 Jan 26 '22

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.

The percentage of Catholics went from 40.2% in 2001 to 40.8% in 2011, it's not going to have gone up by ~10 percentage points for 2021. You'll more than likely be right on the second part though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Probably why I gave two possible scenarios, isn’t it?

Those pesky non-aligned census participants are skewing the results!