Fermanagh South Tyrone has produced its fair share of high drama at election counts down the years,

and that's where we're starting this week's Red Lines. This is the second podcast in our series

of constituency profiles ahead of May's Assembly election. Later, we live a rummage under the bonnet

in West Tyrone and Mid Ulster, but we begin in Northern Ireland's most westerly constituency and joining me to look at the runners and riders so far.

And the issue's likely to shape things on the ground between now and polling day in just six weeks time.

Our Deputy Editor of Slugger O'Toole, David McCann, Belfast Lives, political reporter Brendan Hughes,

and our political correspondent, Gareth Gordon. Welcome to all of you, David.

Four of the five main parties have something to prove in from Anna South Jerome. Yeah, they certainly do.

So this is a real top target for within nationalism. There's a real battle going on between Sinn Féin and the

SDLP. Sinn Féin currently hold three seats there. The Sdlp hold none.

They lost their only seat, Richie McPhillips, last time, despite actually increasing their

vote.

So the Sdlp have a councillor there, Adam Gannon, who is gunning.

It's one of their top targets to gain that third seat back from Sinn Féin that they lost.

Sinn Féin had actually quite a remarkable result last time.

They took more than 42% of the first preference vote.

So it was a very, very strong showing returning three in a five-seater.

But also there's big battles going on within unionism as well.

So Deborah Erskine, who replaced Arling Foster, is leading the ticket for the DUP as the incumbent MLN.

It'll be very interesting to see because Arlene was able to create a bit of a surge toward the DUP, the more high profile she became.

So she's taken the DUP vote from 24% in 2011 to just under 30% in 2017.

So it'll be interesting to see if Deborah and her running mate, Paul Bell, if they can hold the vote that Arlene Foster has been able to build up in the constituency.

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