Who will get seats at the top table?
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 12 2007 under Election
Paul McGill, editor of SCOPE, has been doing the sums.
http://www.communityni.org/index.cfm/section/news/key/news120307
Election results coming in…
Posted by Lisa on Mar 08 2007 under Election, Election goings on, Alliance Party, DUP, Green Party, SDLP, Sinn Féin, UUP, PUP, Parties
After nearly six hours of counting, the results of the NI elections are beginning to come through.
Get the most up to date info on the BBC election website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2007/nielection/html/main.stm
Election Question time - full footage of the event from NvTV
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 05 2007 under Election goings on, Alliance Party, DUP, Green Party, SDLP, Sinn Féin, UUP, Video, PUP
Footage from the Election Question Time hosted at NICVA on 12 February 2007.
Thanks to NvTv who filmed the event and have shown it on their daily television broadcasts during the last week of February.
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NICVA interview with Alex Maskey (Sinn Féin)
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 05 2007 under Election goings on, Sinn Féin, Video
Alex Maskey has a quick chat with Lisa McElherron on the key issues in the forthcoming Assembly election.
Apologies for the poor sound quality - we’ll use a proper microphone next time
NICVA interview with Anna Lo (Alliance party)
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 02 2007 under Election, A Shared Future, Education & training, Equality, Race, Alliance Party, Video
Anna Lo, Alliance, called in to NICVA for a discussion with Lisa McElherron on the key issues in the forthcoming Assembly election.
NICVA interview with Stephen Nicholl (UUP)
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 02 2007 under Election, Health and wellbeing, UUP, Women, Video
Stephen Nicholl called in to NICVA for a discussion with Lisa McElherron on the key issues in the forthcoming Assembly election.
Slugger O’Toole and Stratagem environment policy panel
Posted by Feargal O'Kane on Mar 01 2007 under Environment, Election goings on
Sluuger O’Toole in partnership with Stratagem launched the first of a series of policy panel discussion, on blogtalkradio eariler today. It was a politician free zone, bringing together group of people together who have a serious, depth knowledge of given areas, who, in conversation with one another, will sketch out precisely the kinds of challenges that lie in front of our future ministers on the very first of taking up their briefs
- David Gordon of the Belfast Telegraph;
- Ciaran Rogan of Translink;
- Noel Williams of the Energy Saving Trust; and
- Jim Kitchen of the Sustainable Development Commission.
Listen to the policy panel discussion
Election doesn’t matter. Nonsense
Posted by Paul McGill on Mar 01 2007 under Election goings on
Some people say the election on 7 March does not matter. There may not even be an Assembly and, even if there is one, it will collapse after a few months – so there’s no point in voting, they say.
They are wrong. Social change does not happen overnight but through an extended process of agitating, campaigning, arguing and persuading. That may be frustrating but it is the way the world works. Over the centuries we thought we saw revolutions in France, Russia and elsewhere but they have been illusions because nothing changes unless people’s minds change, and that takes time and effort. Military victories may subdue the defeated but they are no basis for peaceful reconstruction.
How the Single Transferrable Vote system works
Posted by Feargal O'Kane on Mar 01 2007 under Election
The way people vote in a Northern Ireland Assembly election differs substantially from any other election in the UK. At most elections the voter simply puts a cross next to the person they want to vote for. For the Northern Ireland Assembly however, the voter must rank all the candidates 1, 2, 3 and so on.
Read more
SDLP Election Broadcast
Posted by damian on Feb 25 2007 under Election, SDLP, Video
The SDLP Party Election Broadcast is available now. You can find it on the party website:
or by searching youtube.com
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