In all there are 10 candidates running, only two of which are nationalist/republican. The remaining eight are either pro-Union or neutral on the issue, like the Greens. (…)

The computer model predicts that Sinn Fein‘s Martina Anderson will top the poll with 26.2% of the vote, while Alex Attwood of the SDLP (16.7%) will come ahead of the UUP‘s Jim Nicholson (14.2%), but well behind Diane Dodds of the DUP (20.8%), on the first count.