Six things to know about Northern Ireland's council election results so far
End of twitter post 3 by John Blair MLAGiven it's a quick shift from shaking hands to hand-shaking nerves, fingers crossed he can get results as good as those from Friday's count.Ryan McCready defected from the DUP to the UUP in 2021
It has been no bed of roses for the UUP - Belfast has not gone well and there are problems elsewhere.Ryan McCready defected from the DUP to join the party in 2021 and has topped the poll in Faughan for Derry City and Strabane District Council.Seamus de Faoite doubled his first preference vote from 2019
The SDLP are also struggling in some key areas - take former assembly member Karen McKevitt, who lost her seat on Newry, Mourne and Down District Council by just one vote. Talk about fine margins. However another party member who knows all about fine margins has bucked the trend - Seamus de Faoite. In 2019, Mr De Faoite won a seat on Belfast City Council in an extremely narrow manner and was the last councillor elected in Northern Ireland. And it was thought he'd struggle to retain that seat if the SDLP had a bad day.Mr De Faoite, local people say, knows how to put in the leg work and appears regularly on doorsteps across the area with a focus on local issues from parks to parking and road crossings.
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