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Originally Posted by Northumbrian
Labour get a zero vote in Northern Ireland on account of them not standing there!
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1. Labour is represented in Northern Ireland by the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) which gets a far lower share of the vote across Northern Ireland than does the Labour Party in Wales and Scotland (the SDLP is averaging 19% to 28% in elections). SDLP MPs in the House of Commons sit as part of the UK mainland Labour Party.
2. Labour candidates who are not members of the SDLP have stood in Northern Ireland. There is a Northern Irish Labour Party. The Labour Party won four seats in the Stormont (Northern Ireland) Elections of 1958 and 1962. They held one seat in 1973 in the Stormont Assembly and fought (but did not win) Belfast East in the 1982 Northern Ireland (Ulster) Assembly Election. The Labour Party of Northern Ireland remains active.
Let me reiterate: Labour (Lie-bour) get a lower share of the vote in England and Northern Ireland (pro-rata) than they do in Wales and Scotland. And this has been the case for decades.
Labour is an anti-English and anti-Ulsterfolk party.