J3731 : Stormont Election 2022: Election posters in Railway Street, Newcastle

taken 2 years ago, near to Newcastle, Co Down, Northern Ireland

Stormont Election 2022:  Election posters in Railway Street, Newcastle
Stormont Election 2022: Election posters in Railway Street, Newcastle
A similar picture of poster bedecked lamp posts could have been taken in any town in NI. The province is divided into 18 constituencies, each returning 5 members of the 90 member Legislative Assembly. The election is the easy part - forming a workable coalition government is much more difficult.
Stormont Assembly Election 5th May, 2022

Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly will be held held on Thursday on 5th May.. In South Down, eleven hopefuls representing 9 parties, as well as an independent candidate, compete for 5 seats. with two of the parties each fielding 2 candidates. Stormont elections are organised on a Single Transferable Vote (STV) basis unlike the 'first past the post' system of mainland Britain. Here, voters may vote for all twelve candidates if they so wish, ranking their preference from 1 to 12 Candidates with the lowest totals are progressively eliminated with their votes redistributed according to a fixed formula until five remain.The five are then deemed elected.
This is a series of photographs, submitted as a matter of record only, shows the election posters of the various candidates.

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Monday, 2 May, 2022   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
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