user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: Which Alliance Constituency has Seamus Close, position 2 and an election smaller than 1997?
Columns: ['Party', 'Constituency', 'Election', 'Candidate', 'Votes', 'Percentage', 'Position']
Types: ['text', 'text', 'real', 'text', 'real', 'real', 'real']
Sample row: ['Alliance', 'Belfast East', 1983.0, 'Oliver Napier', 9373.0, 24.1, 3.0]
SQL:

assistant: SELECT "Constituency" FROM "Table" WHERE "Party" = 'Alliance' AND "Election" < 1997.0 AND "Position" = 2.0 AND "Candidate" = 'Seamus Close';