The Northern Ireland Election Thread

Chris:
"I was under the impression that the BBC NI system was a NI branded version of that used for the English elections back in May, they used the same barcode logo did they not for their "Vote 03.""

Ah - that's probably what it is.

The "Northern Ireland" has changed to "State of the Parties" today

That little aston started off as "State of the Parties", but then changed to "Northern Ireland". Perhaps the plan was that every constituency would rotate through so viewers could see how many from each party got in where?

Incidentally, the BBC location calling is based on constituency - so even though the Valley Leisure Centre in Newtownabbey is the count for several constituencies, when interviewing someone, Noel will say... "to East Antrim" and then three minutes later "to South Antrim" - even though it's the same place. I don't mind this - as at least we know what constituency we're talking about, given the multi-member situation which exists in this election!