Irish nationalists Sinn Fein followed up last year’s historic Northern Ireland Assembly victory by overtaking their unionist rivals by a wide margin in council elections to become the biggest party at local level for the first time.
It is the latest political milestone for the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army who want to leave the United Kingdom and form a united Ireland. The left-wing party also comfortably leads opinion polls in the Republic of Ireland ahead of national elections due in 2025. Sinn Fein’s share of the vote jumped almost 8 points to 31% and it won 144 of the 462 seats up for grabs, up 39% on the 2019 result.
The DUP had pitched the elections as a chance to bolster its call for further concessions from Britain on Northern Irish post-Brexit trade - the reason for its boycott - and said the results were a “strong mandate” from the unionist community. Sinn Fein’s success came at the expense of more middle ground nationalist and unionist parties.
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