FYI, that utter confusion you’re feeling right now is how colour blind people feel even when there is a key to the graph.
You mean the useless, backwards looking, anti-growth, anti-common sense, anti-collaboration, union above all party are struggling?
You mean people value politicians who try to make their lives better?
Well I never….
What are we looking at exactly?
Keys are in a terminal decline it seems
There’s no key but based on the colours and % alone, I’m guessing we’re looking at the share for the parties in this sort of order:
SF
DUP
Alliance
TUV
UUP
SDLP
Greens
PBP
Other
EDIT: Corrected based on replies. The other party mentioned but removed was Conservatives
Young people don’t arbitrarily hate other people based on their background as much as older generations, this is a horrible fact for the DUP.
No, it’s unlikely to be terminal, but interesting to see the decline of both SF and DUP, and probably rightfully so given how they’ve been so poor at working together.
Would be very interesting to see the same graph for the period since the Good Friday Agreement. I’m sure there are plenty of peaks and troughs for the established parties
With a bit of feckin luck
Well this isn’t gonna find its way to r/dataisbeautiful
The DUP policy has been “ourselves, alone” for decades. They don’t reach out in an age of diversity and instead rely on Evangelicals, OO fans, bigots and top tier businessmen. I suspect that they’ll eventually merge with the UUP to hold seats east of the Bann
We can only hope.
Here’s hoping 🙏🏻
The pertinent questions is western democracy in terminal decline?
I would say the same thing that happened the UUP when it was the party of government is now happening the DUP in that they are potentially getting squeezed by the more moderate unionist Alliance and the more traditionalist/extreme TUV.
Probably but the unionist vote is the same just spread between 4 plus parties ie TUV for the head bangers DUP for the religious right UUP for the middle ground unionist
And alliance for the reformed / progressive unionist
Hard to know if they will see any further decline or level off. They have fallen back in the last run of elections in terms of share of the vote and seats but seem to have flattened out, consistently in and around 21/22%.
They lack meaningful competition, the UUP are still weak and the TUV remain a one man band, so the DUP are likely to benefit from the established unionist vote not seeing anywhere to go but the DUP.
Edit – plus there isn’t any elections due until 2027 so there won’t be anyway to actually know for a few years.
Once Jim croaks it or retires the TUV will fold or be absorbed into the DUP. That will give them a temporary boost, but they’re in a terminal decline. Broadly speaking, Unionism isn’t an attractive prospect to younger voters.
I think unionism is finding a new political face for sure. The DUP have been very backwards-looking particularly with regards to Brexit and it’s obviously not resonating with younger generations. They aren’t stupid policies persay because it’s obvious there are votes from older generations, but being anti-LGBT and very conservative won’t give you a future. They are handing these younger votes to other parties.
However I don’t think this means Sinn Fein’s future is guaranteed. People down south care much more about policy and they clearly don’t trust Sinn Fein to deliver. Many people still remember their “historical name” shall we say. Many people were disgusted by the very serious recent Scandals from Sinn Fein. (McMonagle etc Alongside the Maria Cahil stuff).
As the SNP’s independence failure has shown. Any party will rise and fall.
No. As elections grow nearer the “oh shit we need to stop the shinners” will get stronger and voters will filter back to the DUP.
Hopefully
Hopefully. Unionism in general is overall though. Partially this is driven by the demographic change happening right now and the hard swing to TUV by loyalists who feel perpetually hard done by.
Is personally like to thank JEFFREY and yer “woman”, can’t remember her name, face like a slapped arse that a mother couldn’t even love 🫰🫰🤨
Shite graph
what a shit post.
context is in your brain – no need to explain!
title + cherry picked graph time – sources ??
im not gonna critisce the lack of a key/legend as i can guess all the parties by colour from having lived here for over 40 years
>DUP in terminal decline
then why is it the one party that was shooting up near 5% ?
does the opposite curve on the TUV make it any progress or worse that DUP are losing voters to a more hardline party ? the UUP arent getting as much gains and extrapolating the graph would be quickly over taken by the TUV …
could it be that some sort of MASSIVE scandal has happened with the now former leader of the DUP and that has caused a bounce for the TUV in polling? yet in Single Transferable Vote most of those protest votes will still fall back to the DUP ?
i’ve never been so disapointed in a Shinnerbot9000
time to upgrade to a DeepSeek chinise version
What kind of psycho posts a chart with no key! Get that shit outa here.
| Year | Election Type | DUP Vote Share (%) |
|——-|———————-|——————–|
| 1998 | Assembly | 18.1 |
| 2001 | Local Council | 21.4 |
| 2001 | General (Westminster)| 22.5 |
| 2003 | Assembly | 25.6 |
| 2005 | Local Council | 29.6 |
| 2005 | General (Westminster)| 33.7 |
| 2007 | Assembly | 30.1 |
| 2009 | European | 18.2 |
| 2010 | General (Westminster)| 25.0 |
| 2011 | Assembly | 30.0 |
| 2011 | Local Council | 27.2 |
| 2014 | Local Council | 23.1 |
| 2015 | General (Westminster)| 25.7 |
| 2016 | Assembly | 29.2 |
| 2017 | Assembly | 28.1 |
| 2017 | General (Westminster)| 36.0 |
| 2019 | Local Council | 24.1 |
| 2019 | General (Westminster)| 30.6 |
| 2022 | Assembly | 21.3 |
| 2023 | Local Council | 23.3 |
| 2024 | General (Westminster)| 22.1 |
No, it’s not.
It feels like hard-line loyalism has little to offer politically outside of ‘it’s our wee cuntry’ ‘da ira ruined our wee cuntry’ and ‘we got too many dem fareners in our wee cuntry’. They’ve zero forward thinking, they just worship the Battle of the Somme and assume Westminister will forever pay for them.
You may well be a legend but I’d appreciate a legend for the graph much more.
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FYI, that utter confusion you’re feeling right now is how colour blind people feel even when there is a key to the graph.
You mean the useless, backwards looking, anti-growth, anti-common sense, anti-collaboration, union above all party are struggling?
You mean people value politicians who try to make their lives better?
Well I never….
What are we looking at exactly?
Keys are in a terminal decline it seems
There’s no key but based on the colours and % alone, I’m guessing we’re looking at the share for the parties in this sort of order:
SF
DUP
Alliance
TUV
UUP
SDLP
Greens
PBP
Other
EDIT: Corrected based on replies. The other party mentioned but removed was Conservatives
Young people don’t arbitrarily hate other people based on their background as much as older generations, this is a horrible fact for the DUP.
No, it’s unlikely to be terminal, but interesting to see the decline of both SF and DUP, and probably rightfully so given how they’ve been so poor at working together.
Would be very interesting to see the same graph for the period since the Good Friday Agreement. I’m sure there are plenty of peaks and troughs for the established parties
With a bit of feckin luck
Well this isn’t gonna find its way to r/dataisbeautiful
The DUP policy has been “ourselves, alone” for decades. They don’t reach out in an age of diversity and instead rely on Evangelicals, OO fans, bigots and top tier businessmen. I suspect that they’ll eventually merge with the UUP to hold seats east of the Bann
We can only hope.
Here’s hoping 🙏🏻
The pertinent questions is western democracy in terminal decline?
I would say the same thing that happened the UUP when it was the party of government is now happening the DUP in that they are potentially getting squeezed by the more moderate unionist Alliance and the more traditionalist/extreme TUV.
Probably but the unionist vote is the same just spread between 4 plus parties ie TUV for the head bangers DUP for the religious right UUP for the middle ground unionist
And alliance for the reformed / progressive unionist
Hard to know if they will see any further decline or level off. They have fallen back in the last run of elections in terms of share of the vote and seats but seem to have flattened out, consistently in and around 21/22%.
They lack meaningful competition, the UUP are still weak and the TUV remain a one man band, so the DUP are likely to benefit from the established unionist vote not seeing anywhere to go but the DUP.
Edit – plus there isn’t any elections due until 2027 so there won’t be anyway to actually know for a few years.
Once Jim croaks it or retires the TUV will fold or be absorbed into the DUP. That will give them a temporary boost, but they’re in a terminal decline. Broadly speaking, Unionism isn’t an attractive prospect to younger voters.
I think unionism is finding a new political face for sure. The DUP have been very backwards-looking particularly with regards to Brexit and it’s obviously not resonating with younger generations. They aren’t stupid policies persay because it’s obvious there are votes from older generations, but being anti-LGBT and very conservative won’t give you a future. They are handing these younger votes to other parties.
However I don’t think this means Sinn Fein’s future is guaranteed. People down south care much more about policy and they clearly don’t trust Sinn Fein to deliver. Many people still remember their “historical name” shall we say. Many people were disgusted by the very serious recent Scandals from Sinn Fein. (McMonagle etc Alongside the Maria Cahil stuff).
As the SNP’s independence failure has shown. Any party will rise and fall.
No. As elections grow nearer the “oh shit we need to stop the shinners” will get stronger and voters will filter back to the DUP.
Hopefully
Hopefully. Unionism in general is overall though. Partially this is driven by the demographic change happening right now and the hard swing to TUV by loyalists who feel perpetually hard done by.
Is personally like to thank JEFFREY and yer “woman”, can’t remember her name, face like a slapped arse that a mother couldn’t even love 🫰🫰🤨
Shite graph
what a shit post.
context is in your brain – no need to explain!
title + cherry picked graph time – sources ??
im not gonna critisce the lack of a key/legend as i can guess all the parties by colour from having lived here for over 40 years
>DUP in terminal decline
then why is it the one party that was shooting up near 5% ?
does the opposite curve on the TUV make it any progress or worse that DUP are losing voters to a more hardline party ? the UUP arent getting as much gains and extrapolating the graph would be quickly over taken by the TUV …
could it be that some sort of MASSIVE scandal has happened with the now former leader of the DUP and that has caused a bounce for the TUV in polling? yet in Single Transferable Vote most of those protest votes will still fall back to the DUP ?
i’ve never been so disapointed in a Shinnerbot9000
time to upgrade to a DeepSeek chinise version
What kind of psycho posts a chart with no key! Get that shit outa here.
| Year | Election Type | DUP Vote Share (%) |
|——-|———————-|——————–|
| 1998 | Assembly | 18.1 |
| 2001 | Local Council | 21.4 |
| 2001 | General (Westminster)| 22.5 |
| 2003 | Assembly | 25.6 |
| 2005 | Local Council | 29.6 |
| 2005 | General (Westminster)| 33.7 |
| 2007 | Assembly | 30.1 |
| 2009 | European | 18.2 |
| 2010 | General (Westminster)| 25.0 |
| 2011 | Assembly | 30.0 |
| 2011 | Local Council | 27.2 |
| 2014 | Local Council | 23.1 |
| 2015 | General (Westminster)| 25.7 |
| 2016 | Assembly | 29.2 |
| 2017 | Assembly | 28.1 |
| 2017 | General (Westminster)| 36.0 |
| 2019 | Local Council | 24.1 |
| 2019 | General (Westminster)| 30.6 |
| 2022 | Assembly | 21.3 |
| 2023 | Local Council | 23.3 |
| 2024 | General (Westminster)| 22.1 |
No, it’s not.
It feels like hard-line loyalism has little to offer politically outside of ‘it’s our wee cuntry’ ‘da ira ruined our wee cuntry’ and ‘we got too many dem fareners in our wee cuntry’. They’ve zero forward thinking, they just worship the Battle of the Somme and assume Westminister will forever pay for them.
You may well be a legend but I’d appreciate a legend for the graph much more.
> Is DUP in terminal decline?
Graph aside, [Betteridge’s Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines) applies here, I’d think.
Not sure, need a banana for reference
Here’s hoping
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