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I might not quite be firing on all mental cylinders at the moment, but I can’t currently get my head around “DUP and UUP upticks in vote share being almost entirely due to the pacts”. Why would that increase the total party votes? Surely if anything it would tend to decrease it, if as I assume would tend to be the case, it’s not 100% effective in “enforcing tactical voting”? i.e. surely some loyalists to the party standing down will stay at home in disgust, or vote for say, an Alliance or fringe unionist candidate instead?
I might not quite be firing on all mental cylinders at the moment, but I can’t currently get my head around “DUP and UUP upticks in vote share being almost entirely due to the pacts”. Why would that increase the total party votes? Surely if anything it would tend to decrease it, if as I assume would tend to be the case, it’s not 100% effective in “enforcing tactical voting”? i.e. surely some loyalists to the party standing down will stay at home in disgust, or vote for say, an Alliance or fringe unionist candidate instead?