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Dr in the House

  • Mark Devenport
  • 9 Mar 07, 04:27 PM

Kieran Deeney has won the battle of the doctors over the SDLP's Jo Deehan in West Tyrone. He survived thanks to transfers from both the UUP and the SDLP. The SDLP will have to look long and hard at how three candidates did not get a single seat. Between them they got 6018 votes - more than the quota of 5923. Would a single candidate have squeezed out Dr Deeney? Now we shall never know...

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  • At 09:13 AM on 10 Mar 2007,
  • Dáithí wrote:

Of course 1 SDLP candidate could have beaten Dr Deeney. It was political suicide of the SDLP to run three candidates. Not only that, but their idiocy in West Tyrone has denied Nationalists another executive seat)

Possibly if that single candidate was called Eugene McMenamin; by deselecting McMenamin after all he's been through over the policing issue, the SDLP seems to have ticked off a lot of his supporters. A quarter of his transfers went to Deeny over Deehan despite the fact he and Deeny are at opposite ends of the constituency.

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