This is a big win for Labour.
They were largely written off at times during this campaign – yesterday you could get odds of 11 to 1 on Labour to win, and I think quite a few of their campaign activists took those odds.
Part of that was because their candidate Davy Russell wasn’t much of a media performer.
He preferred chapping doors and yesterday Labour knocked on the doors of 8,000 identified supporters – that’s not far short of their actual vote.
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