The SDLP leader won a majority of just over 4,000 and was elected as an MP with 15,647 of the valid poll.
If you pretend you know what you've planted in your garden, take heart from the Daily Telegraph reader who recalls how her father had one row of seeds labelled GOK. It stood for God Only Knows.
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