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Northern Ireland Assembly election: Anti-austerity party picks up seats
While it was no surprise that DUP leader Arlene Foster topped the poll in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, what was less predictable was the man who finished a close second.
Gerry Carroll, of the left-wing People Before Profit party, received 8,299 first preference votes in the Sinn Féin heartland of West Belfast.
In the process, he pushed out one of the republican party's five assembly members in the constituency.
He was one of two members of the anti-austerity party to be elected to the assembly at Stormont for the first time.
The second was veteran civil rights campaigner Eamonn McCann in Foyle, whose election cost the second biggest nationalist party - the Social Democratic and Labour Party - one of its seats.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-northern-ireland-36235913
Gerry Carroll, of the left-wing People Before Profit party, received 8,299 first preference votes in the Sinn Féin heartland of West Belfast.
In the process, he pushed out one of the republican party's five assembly members in the constituency.
He was one of two members of the anti-austerity party to be elected to the assembly at Stormont for the first time.
The second was veteran civil rights campaigner Eamonn McCann in Foyle, whose election cost the second biggest nationalist party - the Social Democratic and Labour Party - one of its seats.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2016-northern-ireland-36235913
It is good to see a non-sectarian party growing in Northern Ireland. They have three members in the Republic's parliament too.
