The Alliance Party’s surge in recent elections has failed to make any significant headway West of the Bann, but one of their candidates in Enniskillen believes the upcoming local council elections could be ‘groundbreaking’ for the party.
Alliance more than doubled its number of MLAs to 17 in last year’s Assembly elections, but despite increasing its vote in areas such as Fermanagh and South Tyrone and West Tyrone, the party did not pick up any seats there.
Across the Fermanagh and Omagh and Mid Ulster council areas, the party still only counts on one elected representative - Omagh town councillor Stephen Donnelly.
