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WHILST the dust continues to settle on what was an historic election which saw Sinn Féin maintain their 27 seats and return to the Assembly as the largest party, the biggest story in West Belfast has to be the decline in support for People Before Profit. In the 2017 election, the party ran two candidates in the form of incumbent MLA Gerry Carroll and Cllr Michael Collins. Five years later, they chose to consolidate their vote by opting to run only Gerry Carroll and still managed to see their percentage of first preference votes within the constituency almost halve. Gerry Carroll received 7.51 per cent of first preference votes within the constituency which was down from the 14.87 per cent that his party received five years earlier. This was also a major drop in support from the 16 per cent that Mr Carroll achieved in the 2019 General Election. Sinn Féin managed to increase their lead in the constituency with a swing of 1.88 per cent, returning four MLAs with 63.68 percent, up from

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