Northern Ireland Assembly Election, 2022

[CumbrianLefty]

Assembly members have now had their pay docked, in response to the continuing stalemate.

[Epaminondas]

Assembly members probably aren't hurting for money, but a collective punishement for the intransigence of the DUP reflects questionable priorities from Westminster.

The next elections cannot come soon enough. Perhaps a twin SF/Labour landslide on both sides of the Irish sea in 2023. Wish it were SDLP/Lab but know better than to hope for that.

[LabourJersey]

Assembly members probably aren't hurting for money, but a collective punishement for the intransigence of the DUP reflects questionable priorities from Westminster.

The next elections cannot come soon enough. Perhaps a twin SF/Labour landslide on both sides of the Irish sea in 2023. Wish it were SDLP/Lab but know better than to hope for that.

Is a SF landslide even possible in NI? Or are we talking relatively speaking?

[Epaminondas]

Is a SF landslide even possible in NI? Or are we talking relatively speaking?

SF does not even court unionist voters which locks them out of 6 constituencies, so there will never be a true SF landslide like there could be in the Free state.
If they sweep the swayable republicans, the 35% would probably garner 30 Assembly seats, their ceiling for the time being.

It's a testament to the idiosyncracies of SF's platform that they have self-locked out of political domination, while the DUP is never far from becoming the main player again.

[CumbrianLefty]

Whilst not about the Assembly per se - it has been announced that the scheduled local elections in NI have been moved back a fortnight to 16th May next year, so they don't conflict with the coronation of our new monarch on the 6th of that month. Could the English elections due next year follow suit?

[LabourJersey]

Whilst not about the Assembly per se - it has been announced that the scheduled local elections in NI have been moved back a fortnight to 16th May next year, so they don't conflict with the coronation of our new monarch on the 6th of that month. Could the English elections due next year follow suit?

Interesting. Though wouldn't the planners of the Coronation have realized that the local elections were the Thursday before?

[Epaminondas]

Stormont legislators don't appear to be seizing the opportunity to run both the UK local elections (18 May) and NI Assembly elections (unset, around April) on the same ballot.

The US strategy of encouraging simultaneous elections seems more reasonable to me, as a cost-cutting and turnout-boosting measure.

[CumbrianLefty]

Stormont legislators don't appear to be seizing the opportunity to run both the UK local elections (18 May) and NI Assembly elections (unset, around April) on the same ballot.

The US strategy of encouraging simultaneous elections seems more reasonable to me, as a cost-cutting and turnout-boosting measure.

They haven't been moved to that date outside Ni, at least not yet.

[Epaminondas]

Pushed back to April of 2024 now, the very definition of kicking into the long grass.