Jon Tonge

2/ Where the public stands on Drumcree 53% say the Secretary of State was right to block the parade. Nationalist and Alliance voters overwhelmingly support the Secretary of State’s decision (91% of SF voters, 84% of SDLP voters and 81% of Alliance voters say it was the right decision); most unionist voters disagree. 85% of TUV voters, 76% of DUP voters and 55% of UUP voters say the Secretary of State’s decision to block the parade on the Garvaghy Road was wrong. Protestants as a whole are more divided (54% wrong, 28% right). 53% say the Parades Commission was wrong to allow the parade down the Garvaghy Road in the first place. 87% of Sinn Féin voters, 75% of SDLP voters and 74% of Alliance voters say the Parades Commission determination was wrong. DUP and TUV voters take the opposite view with 73% and 74% respectively saying the Parades Commission determination was the right one. UUP voters are split with 46% saying it was the right decision and 39% saying it was the wrong decision by the Parades Commission. • • 38% sympathise more with the Garvaghy Road residents, 21% with the Portadown Orangemen, and 41% do not pick a side (choosing both equally, neither or don’t know). Among Protestants, more do not take a side (44%) than back the Orangemen (42%).