Election an indictment of North’s non-voters
Of those entitled to vote, 63.1% did so out of a total of 1,097,526 registered voters. The DUP got 25.7% of the votes cast. But of those registered, as opposed to those who voted, only 16.21% opted for them. Likewise for Sinn Féin, who got 23.52% of the votes cast as opposed to only 14.83% of those registered.
The four biggest parties DUP, SF, UUP and SDLP accounted for 88.88% of the votes cast, or 56% of the those registered. Taken as a whole, they can't even claim to represent the large majority of the registered electorate.
