There are 949 city and county council seats to be filled across 31 local authorities, which are divided into 166 electoral areas. Sinn Fein lost half their councillors in the 2019 election, with their support falling to 9.5% of first preference votes, giving them 81 councillors. Local election polls and general election polls are different, there’s a personal dimension to it as well, in addition to a party poll. The Social Democrats, founded in 2015, won 19 seats in what was its first local election in 2019. The number of Solidarity-People Before Profit council seats fell from 28 to 11, Aontu and Independents4Change had three council seats apiece.

Source: The Herald June 06, 2024 22:51 UTC