Northern Ireland NI West Tyrone Election Results 2017 Live By Party Constituency

Northern Ireland Assembly election Dates 2017

National Assembly Election Date: 2 March 2017

Find Northern Ireland NI West Tyrone Election Results 2017 Live. The next Northern Ireland Assembly election is to be held on 2 March 2017 to elect members (MLAs) to the Northern Ireland Assembly following the resignation of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness in protest over the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal. It will be the sixth election since the Assembly was re-established in 1998. It will be the first to elect 90 MLAs to the Assembly, a reduction from the previous 108.

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West Tyrone Election Results 2017 Live By Party

The Election Results Will be released on 3rd March Morning 2017. Acc to Opinion polls DUP is ahead of SF

1. The official turnout not to be known till Friday.
2. Counting will start tomorrow with the last results not expected until later on Saturday.

Northern Ireland Assembly election Voting Live Updates 2017 

1.     Electoral Office believes that turnout will be more than last year which was 55%s.
2.     The official turnout not to be known till Friday.
3.     Two hundred and twenty-eight candidates are competing for 90 seats across 18 constituencies.
4.     46% in one district of Lagan Valley to a high of nearly 80% in one area of Mid Ulster.
5.     Count will get under way at 08:00 GMT on Friday with the final results not expected to be confirmed until Saturday afternoon.
6.     Sinn Fein, now led by the untested Michelle O’Neill after McGuinness’ retirement on health grounds, will probably come second.
7.     This is second election in less than a year.
8.     Power-sharing arrangements between the two largest parties at Stormont – the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein – collapsed in January.
9.     Arlene Foster is leading DUP, Michelle O'Neill leading Sinn Féin
10.     If post-election talks cannot mend tensions between the former coalition partners then direct rule from London would be there.
11.     An alternative cross-community partnership of the Ulster Unionists and nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is bidding to wrest control away from the fractious former allie

Electoral system of Northern Ireland

In May 2013, Theresa Villiers, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced the next Assembly election would be postponed to May 2016, and would be held at fixed intervals of five years thereafter.Section 7 of the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 specifies that elections will be held on the first Thursday in May on the fifth calendar year following that in which its predecessor was elected, which would be 6 May 2021.

Candidates for Assembly Elections 2017

Nominations opened on 27 January 2017 for the assembly election and closed on 8 February 2017.
A total of 228 candidates are contesting the 90 available seats in the Assembly, a reduction from the 276 who contested the 108 seats available in 2016.
The table below lists all of the nominated candidates.Candidates for the same party in a constituency are listed in alphabetical order, which is the order they will appear on the ballot paper.

Northern Ireland Parties and leaders

Eight parties had MLAs in the fifth assembly: the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, the Greens, People Before Profit (PBP), and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV). There was also one Independent Unionist MLA.

Northern Ireland Assembly Last Election Results