A LUCID Talk poll has revealed a significant loss of support for the DUP, which has seen support for the party slump to the lowest it has been for 20 years.

The poll published in The Belfast Telegraph showed support for the party at 19 per cent, raising the possibility that if these results held up at the next Assembly election in 2022, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill could become First Minister.

The question asking "If there was an Assembly election held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?" saw the DUP's support drop from 28.1 per cent at the 2017 election to 19 per cent, while Sinn Féin's fell from 27.9 per cent to 24 per cent.

The Alliance surge over recent years continued, with their 2017 result of 9.1 per cent doubling to 18 per cent, making them the third-largest party in Northern Ireland, only 1 per cent behind the DUP.

Another significant result on this question showed 10 per cent of those surveyed would vote for the TUV, led by Jim Allister – four times what they managed to achieve in the last Assembly election – while the SDLP would get 13 per cent of first preference votes, with the UUP getting 12 per cent of the vote, seeing little change from 2017 results for both parties.

The performance of the leaders of the two largest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, did not fare well in the poll.

Some 54 per cent felt Arlene Foster was doing a poor job, while 56 per cent thought the same of Michelle O'Neill.

Others who the majority of pollsters felt were not doing a good job included Education Minister Peter Weir (70 per cent), Prime Minister Boris Johnson (73 per cent), and Northern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis (73 per cent).

Health Minister Robin Swann and Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon were the only politicians who more than half of those surveyed believed were doing a good job, with 75 and 59 per cent, respectively.