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1 Purpose
2 Questions with YES/NO answers
3 Issues
4 Political Compass
5 Parties
6 Electoral System
7 Further Reading
8 Misc

Purpose

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This wiki aims to explain what each party stands for and the issues affecting people in Northern Ireland in the upcoming elections in simple terms and in one place. A wiki is open to anyone to edit, add to or destroy; the success of this (and any) wiki is entirely dependent on your contribution. You can simply start a page on an issue you'd like to know more on or you can be a person who adds or improves on answers to questions others have asked.

When writing a response imagine yourself writing to a single person, someone from another planet, one that has no elections, but is reasonably intelligent.

Questions with YES/NO answers

Questions with party policy resolved to a simple yes or no.

Yes or No!

Issues

More in depth discussion on the issues raised in the simple questions section.

Political Compass

Where do the local politiciansand parties fall on the Political Compass? http://www.politicalcompass.org/ Ideally we'd like the politicians to take the test themselves, but we'll not hold our breath so feel free to make an educated guess and fill in the Who's Where on the Political Compass page!

Parties

Facts on each party, with links to party websites. *The tag lines are the first sentence displayed by Google in a search query for that party.*

Alliance Party - Non-sectarian party which advocates co-operation between Nationalist and Unionist communities and power sharing.
Conservative Party - The Conservative Party in Northern Ireland Election 2007 Web Site.
Democratic Unionist Party - The largest of all the Unionist parties and the leading party opposed to the Good Friday Agreement.
Green Party - A non-sectarian party campaigning on environmental issues.
MakePoliticiansHistoryParty - wish us well.
Progressive Unionist Party - Welcome to the Progressive Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.
Sinn Féin - Sinn Féin is Ireland's oldest political movement.
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Principal party of the nationalist (Catholic) community in Northern Ireland.[1]
Ulster Unionist Party - Ulster's oldest, and currently second biggest, unionist party.

[1]While the Google reference refers to the SDLP as the principal party of the Nationalist community they lag far behind SF electorally and are only the 4th largest party.