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Polls person opened successful Northern Ireland's 2023 assembly election
Voters are going to the polls connected Thursday to determine who should correspond them connected Northern Ireland's 11 councils.
A full of 807 candidates are competing for 462 seats successful assembly chambers crossed the region.
Polling stations opened astatine 07:00 BST and volition adjacent astatine 22:00, with astir 1.4m radical eligible to vote.
The predetermination was primitively owed to instrumentality spot connected 4 May, but was delayed owed to the King's Coronation.
It is lone the 3rd predetermination to 11 alleged ace councils successful Northern Ireland.
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Image caption,Man enters a polling presumption to ballot connected Thursday morning
It is besides lone the 2nd clip successful 26 years that Northern Ireland is holding a stand-alone assembly predetermination - usually they are tally alongside polls for Stormont, Westminster oregon Europe.
Voters volition usage the azygous transferable ballot (STV) system, the aforesaid arsenic that utilized successful Northern Ireland Assembly elections.
People volition fertile candidates successful numerical preference, marking their ballot 1,2,3 and truthful connected for arsenic galore oregon arsenic fewer preferences arsenic they want.
Candidates are past elected according to the stock of the ballot they receive.
To find retired who is lasting successful your area, benignant your postcode into the barroom below.
Voters person to beryllium aged astatine slightest 18 and connected the electoral registry to ballot successful Northern Ireland.
Polling cards are not required to ballot but voters volition beryllium asked for immoderate impervious of identity.
What ID bash I request to vote?
- The photographic portion of a UK, Irish oregon European Economic Area (EEA) driving licence (provisional licences accepted)
- A UK, Irish oregon EU passport (including the Irish passport card)
- An Electoral Identity Card
- A Translink Half Fare SmartPass
- A Translink Senior SmartPass
- A Translink 60+ SmartPass
- A Translink War Disabled SmartPass
- A Translink Blind Person's SmartPass
- A biometric migration document
The papers does not request to beryllium existent but the photograph does request to beryllium a bully capable likeness to let unit to corroborate your identity.
The fig of candidates is somewhat down from the 819 radical who enactment their names guardant for the erstwhile assembly elections 4 years ago.
Counting successful the elections volition statesman connected Friday morning. In 2019, counting continued past midnight and into the adjacent day.
BBC News NI volition screen the latest predetermination results and investigation online, with unrecorded sum from the infinitesimal counting begins to erstwhile the past effect is announced.
There volition besides beryllium peculiar predetermination programmes connected BBC Radio Ulster from 16:00 to 22:00 connected Friday and 10:00 to 13:00 connected Saturday.
On BBC One Northern Ireland, determination volition beryllium peculiar predetermination programmes betwixt 15:30 to 16:30 and 19:30 to 22:00 connected Friday and past 10:00 to 13:00 connected Saturday.
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