It could be two months away, it could be eight months away, but it's almost certainly happening this year,

and it could bring with its significant change for the overall UK political landscape.

And there might be a few real scraps, of course, here as well.

Yes, we're getting in early with the general election preamble in this edition of Red Lions.

And if constituency tussles, boundary changes and paper candidates

are your thing then this is definitely

the programme for you. With me

to discuss the ins and outs of our

own 18 individual battlegrounds

our three Red Lions regulars

Dr David McCann, the Deputy Editor

of Slugger O'Too, Suzanne

Breen, the political editor of the Belfast

Telegraph and our very own political correspondent, Gareth Gordon. Welcome along to the Easter

edition of the Great Red Lions Parlor Game. Let's see how your numbers stack up. David,

I'm going to start with you of the 18 seats that will be up for grabs in this election. How many are

actually likely to change hands?

Well, we kind of divide them into kind of the six most marginal constituency.

So there are the regulars in there from Anna South Turone,

which is held by the majority of just 57 votes.

It's always typically either number one or number two in the most marginal of constituencies held by Sinn Féin.

Next to that, you have South Down, which is held by a margin of just 1,600 votes.

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