Potential good new for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
According to Ipsos-Mori, they are up to 9% in the polls. Even with a large margin of error, that is good news for a party which languished on 3.7% last time, although they managed to hold onto their 6 seats.
Also interesting is the sudden appearance of the Greens, at 3%. While this could conceivably mean they get seats in their own right, it also suggests a rise in the overall non-sectarian vote which in theory should transfer.
There’s a joke here about the Greens being only the environmentalist party for Nationalists, while Unionists have to vote for the Oranges…