Distribution of Green and Alliance votes:
Alban Maginness (SDLP) +16,325 = 94,814
Jim Nicholson (UCUNF) +11,392 = 94,285
Diane Dodds (DUP) +2,914 = 91,260
Jim Allister (TUV) +4,284 = 70,481
Non-transferable: 7,548
Puts poor Alban ahead by a nose, but he will be easily overtaken by the other two on Allister’s transfers. The Green and Alliance transfers split pretty evenly between Unionists and Nationalists.
If he got to talk to the head of the registration service, it must be quite a smaller country. Not one of the 60 million people ones.