ELECTION '22: Behind the headlines – where the votes fell in West Belfast
WHILST the dust continues to settle on what was an historic election which saw Sinn Féin maintain their 27 seats and return to the Assembly as the largest party, the biggest story in West Belfast has to be the decline in support for People Before Profit. In the 2017 election, the party ran two candidates in the form of incumbent MLA Gerry Carroll and Cllr Michael Collins. Five years later, they chose to consolidate their vote by opting to run only Gerry Carroll and still managed to see their percentage of first preference votes within the constituency almost halve. Gerry Carroll received 7....
Source: belfastmedia.com
