A poll for BBC News Northern Ireland asked 1001 Electors the following question on the 27th of May 2020

At the next Northern Ireland Assembly General Election, which party will you vote for with your 1st preference vote?

The polling has a 3% margin of error.

Labour Party in Northern Ireland: 28.97% (-0.35%)

Ulster Unionist Party: 22.82% ( 4.16%)

Irish Parliamentary Party: 12.31% ( 0.63%)

Social Democratic and Labour Party: 12.20% ( 1.31%)

Alliance Party of Northern Ireland: 8.82% (-1.39%)

Green Party: 5.80% ( 0.20%)

Páirtí na nOibrithe: 3.26% ( 0.35%)

Irish Libertarian Party: 2.39% (-0.46%)

People's Unionist Party: 1.75% (-0.31%)

Saor Ó Chaipitleachais: 1.32% (-0.20%)

Democratic Unionist Party: 0.83% (-0.82%)

Explanations

• Fantastic work from the UUP, great balance of in Stormont and press work.

• Reduction in activity all round from Labour this week, in terms of press and in the Assembly.

• Both the SDLP and IPP do well, both submitting legislation and press work.

• Alliance continue a steady downfall. Negligible activity this week, big effort needed to turn losses around.

• Greens and PnaÓ continue on with their small but consistent gains for the last number of weeks, good activity

• ILP, PUP, DUP and SóC all get similar comments - poor or negligible activity