Slugger reader survey
Iain Dale is running a survey to see how readers rate various politicians. O’Neill is canvassing a bit.
I’ve done a short one for Slugger, with a couple of questions to see what the reader profile of this blog is, and a similar rating survey on about 50 of our local representatives. Try to answer honestly and not based on your party political preferences – that way we might end up with something useful!
UPDATE – as I haven’t forked out for the pay for account, there is a limit of 100 responses. About 2/3 done now.
UPDATE 2 – results below the fold. A sample of 100 is tiny. That with other factors means, don’t take too much from it. It’s not so much useful as interesting.1. Where are you registered to vote (or, if not registered, where are you normally resident)
Not really important enough to bother publishing. Suffice to say, I’m pleased to see a good spread across Northern Ireland, slightly South and East Belfast heavy (those two being in the top three options in the drop down box. Conclusion – laziness).
2. How often do you read Slugger?
Looks a bit like a Russian Presidential election result
Several times a day 60.8%
Once a day 23.7%
13 or 4 times a week 13.4%
Once a week 2.1%
A few times a month 0%
Quite rarely 0%
3. Which party got your first preference vote in the 2007 Assembly elections?
First figure is the percentage, second is the raw number of respondents
DUP 15.8% 15
Sinn Fein 12.6% 12
UUP 13.7% 13
SDLP 12.6% 12
Alliance 12.6% 12
Independent 0.0% 0
Green 5.3% 5
UKUP 3.2% 3
PUP 2.1% 2
Conservative 2.1% 2
RSF 0.0% 0
SEA 0.0% 0
UKIP 0.0% 0
Other 3.2% 3
Did not vote/Don’t remember 16.8% 16
4. Please rate the performance of following Northern Ireland politicians since devolution in May 2007 on a scale of 1 to 10 where one is very poor and 10 is very good. Be honest and dispassionate!
Placed in rank order – based on 93 responses. I regret including John Barry, it was unfair. I think in certain instances, and he is one, people rated low owing to not having heard of them. That was a mistake on my part. Also this is quite DUP heavy and a little SDLP light.
Margaret Ritchie 7.43
Peter Robinson 6.67
Naomi Long 6.15
David Ford 5.99
Danny Kennedy 5.85
Martin McGuinness 5.71
Ian Paisley 5.54
Nigel Dodds 5.50
Sammy Wilson 5.42
Arlene Foster 5.38
Anna Lo 5.22
William Hay 5.17
Declan O’Loan 5.15
Basil McCrea 5.11
Michael McGimpsey 5.05
Mark Durkan 5.04
Sir Reg Empey 5.03
Jeffrey Donaldson 4.99
Alban Maginness 4.99
John Dallat 4.97
Conor Murphy 4.85
Michelle Gildernew 4.83
John McAllister 4.71
Alasdair McDonnell 4.67
Gregory Campbell 4.66
Tom Elliott 4.62
Fred Cobain 4.60
Stephen Farry 4.56
Lady Hermon 4.46
Alan McFarland 4.46
Alex Maskey 4.43
Eddie McGrady 4.38
Iris Robinson 4.37
Gerry Kelly 4.30
Alex Attwood 4.27
Barry McElduff 4.24
Brian Wilson 4.22
Dawn Purvis 4.21
Michelle McIlveen 4.10
Mitchel McLaughlin 3.99
David McClarty 3.95
Pat Doherty 3.93
David Simpson 3.90
Gerry Adams 3.89
Francie Molloy 3.87
Kieran Deeny 3.79
Edwin Poots 3.61
Jimmy Spratt 3.54
Paul Goggins 3.52
David Burnside 3.50
Shaun Woodward 3.49
Martina Anderson 3.41
Leslie Cree 3.38
John Barry 2.98
William McCrea 2.90
Caitriona Ruane 2.37
Ian Paisley Jnr 2.19
Right at the bottom are Paisley Jnr, Ruane and William McCrea. The raw numbers directly below are the percentage and then raw number of responses for each rank from 1 through 10 and don’t know on the far right. The conclusion (such as one can be arrived at from such a tiny sample) is that even their own party voters don’t rate their performances. Worth noting that 47 people ranked John Barry as don’t know. Just short of half.
Ian Paisley Jnr
58.9% (56) 15.8% (15) 8.4% (8) 2.1% (2) 5.3% (5) 2.1% (2) 2.1% (2) 2.1% (2) 0.0% (0) 2.1% (2) 1.1% (1)
Caitriona Ruane
54.7% (52) 10.5% (10) 7.4% (7) 10.5% (10) 4.2% (4) 3.2% (3) 2.1% (2) 1.1% (1) 2.1% (2) 1.1% (1) 3.2% (3)
William McCrea
26.3% (25) 15.8% (15) 16.8% (16) 11.6% (11) 9.5% (9) 6.3% (6) 1.1% (1) 0.0% (0) 1.1% (1) 0.0% (0) 11.6% (11)
5. If an election were held tomorrow, who would you vote for?
DUP 15.80% 15
Sinn Fein 12.60% 12
UUP 11.60% 11
SDLP 13.70% 13
Alliance 13.70% 13
Independent 1.10% 1
Green 5.30% 5
UKUP 0.00% 0
PUP 1.00% 1
Conservative 4.20% 4
RSF 0.00% 0
SEA 0.00% 0
UKIP 0.00% 0
Traditional Unionist Voice 6.30% 6
Other 5.30% 5
Would not vote 9.50% 9
6. How many Local Government districts do you think there should there be?
Personally, I reckon 1 was used as a “don’t know” option.
1 3.20% 3
7 35.80% 34
9 6.30% 6
11 25.30% 24
15 24.20% 23
26 5.30% 5
More than 26 0.00% 0
Not possible at present I’m afraid! When I pay them some money it might be.
Personally I’m glad I did this. I think it shows some interesting things.
Do we have any constructive criticism of the methods or questions?
‘If an election were held tomorrow, who would you vote for? ‘
Where was the FF option ? I’m sure FF would have beaten the the Conservatives !
Interesting to see that there were 3 SF shills rating Ruane at 10. Just shows that the party intanet warrior zombies are still about! (However see also 11 DUP shills giving Willie a 10 – can none of these people think for themselves?)
Also, who the hell gave Ian Jnr a 10 rating? Even Sweeney & his own father wouldn’t give him a 10.
Where were the rest of the MLAs to vote for? Poots did particularly badly for someone with a high profile portfolio… probably a result of pissing of the Shinners with the Irish language stance and pissing of his own party with his stance on the Maze. Interesting that Michelle McIlveen made it onto the list to be voted on personally I find her quite capable for a first termer, but she must have made some kind of impression on you Mr Shilliday
sorry for mis-typing “off” twice in the one post….the shame!
‘And since when did non-Alliance members like you start having any influence what so ever on who the leader is? You worked for the party for like 5 minutes, and you don’t anymore. Get over yourself, you think you are a savy political commentator, you’re not you are a sad little man who has no life. Grow up Pete.’
Almost sounds like Naomi Long talking. Worked for the party for 5 minutes because that’s all it’s worth giving, unfortunately. And I mean that.
General treatment therein can clearly be seen by such comments on Slugger above. You’re as arrogant as the old official unionists.
I make comments on views that I hold and tend to express them and so what.
What’s your problem and if there even should be a problem with that. Is Alliance above and beyond discussing by a non-member? Arrogant, just arrogant Alliance.
And what about Kieran McCarthy. Please, sort yourselves out you hypocritical bunch of nutcases.
What is the shared-future model Alliance wishes to build in Northern Ireland. Stop being so ambiguous to the point of bluffing the electorate. Time to tell the truth, Alliance as a party in under scrutiny too ya’ know!
Jeez!
‘you are a sad little man who has no life.’
And I’m not little btw, im 6ft 4″
Unlike the Alliance leadership who are small and paunchy. There’s no ‘big man’ trying to get out of me.
Oh and thanks Shilliday for removing my comments earlier, which are now qualified, yet let stand this Alliance rant directed at playing just me.
DC
I am not convinced about the committment from Tesco-there is also a planning application for a superstore about 35000 square feet at Millbrook by Seaport and I wonder who the anchor tenant is going to be.Can larne sustain 3 out of town shopping centres and still maintain a viable commercial core in the town centre-probably not.
Twinbrook,
Fuck off, seriously. You’re like a broken record. Seems the best Minister won anyway
I agree with others saying this was an interesting idea and it threw up some interesting results.
I put down Arlene Foster, Michelle Gildernew, Peter Robinson, and Margaret Ritchie as being good ministers.
Catriona Ruane and IPJ I gave a very low score to. The former is particularly atrocious, in my opinion.
I put down Arlene Foster, Michelle Gildernew, Peter Robinson, and Margaret Ritchie as being good ministers.
Have I missed Foster being good? The only think of note she seems to have done is be embarrassed by her party colleagues into reversing a decision.
“you are a sad little man who has no life
Awesome argument DC.
You have my vote – for twit of the day.
maybe ruan and ipj will become besotted with each other after this……….
and throw willie in for a threesome………
“Awesome argument DC.”
I would like to claim credit for it but hey I didn’t write it.
Politicians can be so bitter.
Right I’m off to be sad, but not little as it’s just not physically possible.
It was worth it. The most interesting ‘result’ was the swing to the TUV.
Do we have any constructive criticism of the methods or questions?
It was a good idea Michael and I think you probably caught the party apparachniks who haunt this site unaware with doing it on a Sunday; so despite the low number of the sample it was perhaps more representative of wider public opinion than it might have been. So if you do it again in the future ,do it without warning and on Saturday or Sunday when the various partys’ press-officers are down the estate-agents or garden-centre.
Perhaps a pruning of the names by about a quarter would also be useful, also why Shaun Woodward and no Jim Allister??!!
I wonder if oneill is actually living in a slugger bubble. Slugger is not a reflection of wider public opinion and a quick sample of 100 slugger devotees is certainly not going to reflect public opinion. However, I agree that Allister should have had a place on this. I look forward to some cash being spent and a full survey taking place with breakdowns. It would have been very interesting to see how the party faithful rated their members performances.