People Before Profit

People Before Profit Pobal Roimh Bhrabús
Party leader	collective leadership
founding	October 2005 (as People Before Profit Alliance)
Headquarters	4 Meadow View, Sarsfield Road, Dublin 10
Alignment	Democratic Socialism Trotskyism
Colours)	Brown & green
Parliamentary seats Republic of Ireland	Dáil , 2020 : 3/160 Local government: 7/949
United Kingdom	British House of Commons , 2019 : 0/650 Northern Ireland Assembly , 2017 : 1/90 Local government in Northern Ireland : 5/462
MEPs	Republic of Ireland : 0/13
European party	EAL
Website	www.pbp.ie

The People Before Profit (PBP, Irish Pobal Roimh Bhrabús , German : "People-before-Profit") is an Irish socialist party , which is politically active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland .

history

The party was using the Socialist Workers Party (since 2018 Socialist Workers Network ) in 2005 as a People Before Profit Alliance founded (PBPA) and could achieve before the year 2016 only community in Northern Ireland mandates, while in the Republic in the House represented is. However, since the 2016 election to the Northern Ireland Assembly , she has also been represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly . In 2016 Gerry Carroll and Eamonn McCann were elected in the constituencies of West Belfast and Foyle, respectively. In the 2017 elections, McCann lost his seat, while Gerry Carroll remains a member of Parliament. Although the party lost a seat in this election, this is not due to a poorer election result, but rather due to an electoral reform in Northern Ireland that reduced the number of members of parliament.

The party has now merged with Solidarity in the Republic of Ireland into Solidarity – People Before Profit . The previous elected representatives of the PBPA, as well as those of the Socialist Party , presented the four-member parliamentary group in the lower house before the 2016 elections , for which the Solidarity-People Before Profit stood together for the first time.

Election results

Northern Ireland

The election results in the following table refer to Northern Ireland (also for the all-British elections). General elections were carried out consistently by majority voting , elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 and elections to the European Parliament by preferential suffrage .

year	choice	Share of votes	Seats
2007	Northern Ireland Assembly 2007	0.1%	0/108
2010	General election 2010	0.0%	0/18
2011	Northern Ireland Assembly 2011	0.8%	0/108
2015	General election 2015	0.9%	0/18
2016	Northern Ireland Assembly 2016	2.0%	2/108
2017	Northern Ireland Assembly 2017	1.8%	1/90
2017	General election 2017	0.7%	0/18
2019	General election 2019	0.9%	0/18

Republic of Ireland

year	choice	Share of votes	Seats
2007	Dáil Éireann 2007	0.5%	0/166
2011	Dáil Éireann 2011	1.0%	2/166
2014	European elections 2014	1.5%	0/11
2016	Dáil Éireann 2016	1.9%	3/158
2019	European elections 2019	1.9%	0/11
2020	Dáil Éireann 2020	1.8%	3/160

MPs

Northern Ireland

In the elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2017 one deputy was elected:

Surname	Constituency
Gerry Carroll	Belfast West

Republic of Ireland

In the elections for Dáil Éireann 2020, 3 members were elected (as part of the party association Solidarity – People Before Profit ):

Surname	Constituency
Richard Boyd Barrett	Dún Laoghaire
Gino Kenny	Dublin Mid-West
Bríd Smith	Dublin South-Central

Web links

Commons : People Before Profit  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• People Before Profit Alliance website (in English)