The Constituency Profiles: Belfast North, South, East and West.

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4.6 • 74 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Mark Carruthers is joined by David McCann, Brendan Hughes and Suzanne Breen to look at the race for Westminster in four more constituencies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to podcast number five of six. This is the last but one in our series of Red Lines' pre-election constituency profiles.
0:08.6	Polling day, July 4th, is hurtling towards us at a frightening lick. Today, we're focusing on the four
0:14.4	Belfast seats and guess what? Our numbers man, Dr. David McCann, is in his seat and alongside him
0:19.8	are the Belfast Telegraph's
0:20.9	political editor Suzanne Breen
0:22.2	and our political correspondent Brendan Hughes
0:24.5	so welcome to all of you
0:26.4	David we're starting with what could turn out
0:29.5	to be the most exciting battle of them all
0:32.4	give us your east Belfast at Atlance
0:35.1	okay so this is the DEP's most marginal seat in Northern Ireland.
0:38.5	They hold it by just over 1,800 votes.
0:41.6	This is held by the now DUP leader, Gavin Robinson.
0:45.0	He's the second party leader within the DUP to hold the seat at Westminster level.
0:50.0	Gavin Robinson actually scored the highest vote share of any DUP candidate across Northern Ireland in 2019.
0:56.1	He took 49.2% of the vote, but as I just noted earlier, that didn't translate into a big majority.
1:03.4	The DUP has held this seat since 2015 when Gavin Robinson won it back from his now main challenger.
1:11.2	The Alliance Party leader Naomi Long.
1:13.4	Naomi Long in 2019 scored Alliance's second-hast vote share across Northern Ireland.
1:18.5	She got 44.9% of the vote.
1:21.7	East Belfast has always been a strong constituency for Alliance.
1:24.3	It was their best-performing constituency in 2022.
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