Worth noting that Sinn Féin outpolled the DUP in 2010. Indeed, the SDLP outpolled the UUP in the first ever Stormont election in 1998. (Both times, a quirk of the system gave the Unionists more seats.) Overall support for pro-UK and pro-Ireland parties has barely moved.
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