Year: 2012
Module: General
Variable: Q23

Question: If there was an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly tomorrow, to which party would you probably give your first vote?

Index to tables on this page

• % of men and women
• % of people of different ages
• % of people of different religions.

Overall Results	%
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)	21
Sinn Fein	13
Republican Sinn Fein	1
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)	11
UK Unionist Party (UKUP)	1
Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)	10
Would not vote	15
Alliance	9
Worker's Party	1
Green Party	1
Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)	0
Conservative	1
Other	1
Don't know	16

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Results for men and women	%
	Male	Female
Democratic unionist party (dup)	25	18
Sinn fein	12	14
Republican sinn fein	1	1
Social democratic and labour party (sdlp)	11	11
Uk unionist party (ukup)	1	0
Ulster unionist party (uup)	12	8
Would not vote	12	17
Alliance	10	8
Worker's party	1	1
Green party	1	2
Progressive unionist party (pup)	1	0
Conservative	2	1
Other	2	1
Don't know	11	19

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Results for people of different ages	%
	18 to 34	35 to 54	55+
Democratic unionist party (dup)	24	20	19
Sinn fein	22	15	6
Republican sinn fein	1	1	1
Social democratic and labour party (sdlp)	5	9	17
Uk unionist party (ukup)	0	0	2
Ulster unionist party (uup)	3	9	15
Would not vote	20	17	9
Alliance	8	7	12
Worker's party	0	1	1
Green party	1	2	1
Progressive unionist party (pup)	0	1	0
Conservative	1	2	1
Other	0	1	3
Don't know	15	16	15

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Results for people of different religions	%
	Catholic	Protestant
Democratic unionist party (dup)	1	40
Sinn fein	30	1
Republican sinn fein	2	0
Social democratic and labour party (sdlp)	26	0
Uk unionist party (ukup)	0	1
Ulster unionist party (uup)	0	19
Would not vote	15	12
Alliance	4	9
Worker's party	1	1
Green party	2	1
Progressive unionist party (pup)	0	1
Conservative	0	1
Other	1	2
Don't know	19	12

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