#AE17 Strangford: Could both UUP and DUP lose out to Bell?
Strangford is another heavily Unionist seat, taking in Newtownards, Comber, the Peninsula and Saintfield. 70.1% of the vote (and that doesn't include an independent from that part of the spectrum) delivered five Unionist MLAs last time, the combined Nationalist vote of 10.3% being less than Alliance's 10.7%, thus enabling Alliance to take the sixth
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The sitting Tory Cllr in the ward next to mine has died, but the by election has been delayed as the leader of the local Tories is busy out of the area, so we've got more time to get ourselves together and campaign.
He's my local Cllr in my ward. In Brighouse, West Yorkshire. His name's Scott Benton (@SL_Benton), and he's busy being the candidate in this seat and campaigning for it.
I know there might be some weird changes due to possible DUP fallout but a paper candidate from Yorkshire is actually spending time campaigning over there. From these numbers there's no way he's got a chance, is there?
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