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105704
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2011.
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Since the late 1980s, Northern Ireland has seen a radical electoral shift away from the historically dominant parties in the Catholic and Protestant blocs - the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), respectively - towards the traditionally more 'extreme' parties - Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). This change in aggregate support has been accompanied by increasing differences between generations as older cohorts of UUP and SDLP supporters have been replaced by newer cohorts of DUP and Sinn Fein partisans. This is not a result of increased polarisation in values and attitudes (whether overtly political or simply communal intolerance) among younger cohorts who are, if anything, slightly more moderate than their forbears. Rather, this results from the changing political context in which new generations have been socialised - in particular the expanded choice sets facing voters as they have reached voting age. This in turn has positive implications for the consolidation of devolved democratic governance.
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156340
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THE SNAP GENERAL ELECTION of June 8, 2017, the third in the last two years, produced a "hung" parliament and can be described as a turning point in the country's political history. The Tories with 318 seats came closest to parliamentary majority of 326 seats; Labour trailed behind with 262 seats, followed by the Scottish National Party (35), Liberal-Democrats (12), the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from Northern Ireland (10), Plaid Cymru (4), and the Green Party (1). The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) headed before the referendum by Nigel Farage was left in the cold. Prime Minister Theresa May, who preserved her post, announced that she would put together a minority government with the support of the Democratic Unionists, the only party that had agreed to side with the Tories on the legislation and budget issues.
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155411
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