Newry and Armagh Constituency

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Electorate: 70,823
Turnout: 50,165
Total Valid Poll: 49,619
Quota: 7,089

Conor Murphy (SF) 7,437 Votes 14.99% of Vote
Cathal Boylan (SF) 7,105 Votes 14.32% of Vote
Danny Kennedy (UUP) 6,517 Votes 13.13% of Vote
William Irwin (DUP) 6,418 Votes 12.93% of Vote
Mickey Brady (SF) 6,337 Votes 12.77% of Vote
Dominic Bradley (SDLP) 5,318 Votes 10.72% of Vote

Sinn Fein maintained their three seats, despite Davy Hyland leaving SF and running as an independant. He polled 2188 Votes. Davy is running again this year as an Independant, in the local Council Elections
Paul Berry the DUP incumbent was suspended from the party, after a picture of him meeting a gay masseur appeared in a Newspaper.

Westminster 2010 election results would predict that there will be little change in this Constituency

[Sam Lord]

Paul Berry the DUP incumbent was suspended from the party, after a picture of him meeting a gay masseur appeared in a Newspaper.

Why was he suspended? Is meeting gay masseurs against party rules?

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Why was he suspended? Is meeting gay masseurs against party rules?

The DUP are pretty homophobic

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Confirmed candidates for May 2011

Cathal Boylan: Sinn Fein

Dominic Bradley: SDLP

Mickey Brady: Sinn Fein

Barrie Halliday: TUV

William Irwin: DUP

Danny Kennedy: UUP

James Malone: Independent

Conor Murphy: Sinn Fein

David Murphy: Alliance Party

Thomas O'Hanlon: SDLP

Robert Woods: UKIP

[Darren J. Prior]

I interviewed Dominic Bradley from the SDLP on "Ar Muin na Muice" on NearFM last week. We talked about the upcoming election next month, the murder of Ronan Kerr and the campaign for an Acht na Gaeilge for Northern Ireland.

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First result sees Conor Murphy (sf) Danny Kennedy (UUP) and Dominic Bradley (SDLP) all elected on first count here.

Murphy 3,000 over the quota.

Conor Murphy SF 9,127 19.6%
Danny Kennedy UUP 18,718 18.7%
Dominic Bradley SDLP 7,123 15.3%
Cathal Boylan SF 6,614 14.2%
William Irwin DUP 6,101 13.1%
Thomas O'Hanlon SDLP 3,825 8.2%
Mickey Brady SF 3,254 7.0%
Barrie Halliday TUV 830 1.8%
David Murphy All 734 1.6%
Robert Woods Others 98 0.2%
James Malone Others 90 0.2%

[Lá an Lúbáin]

Brady's vote is a quare bit off the other SFers here.

DUP on the second page of the party totals..for now

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Brady's vote is a quare bit off the other SFers here.

Screwed up a bit there with the vote management. He better hope he gets a good share of Murphy's surplus.

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Cathal Boylan elected from Murphy's transfers for SF.

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Final Result

Conor Murphy SF Count 1
Danny Kennedy UUP Count 1
Dominic Bradley SDLP Count 1
Cathal Boylan SF Count 2
William Irwin DUP Count 3
Mickey Brady SF Count 6

Exactly as before, same 6 MLAs albeit elected in slightly different order. SDLP vote held up well and the 2 Unionists got in comfortably.

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Driving through Armagh the SF election posters there were for Boylan 1, Brady 2, and Murphy 3
Micky Brady would have no profile in Armagh so I reckon that voters there went for Murphy as their number 2
Which might explain the low vote for Brady