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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Mark Carruthers is joined by David McCann, Enda McClafferty and David Young to assess another three Westminster constituencies.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the final installment in our series of Red Lines constituency profiles with just days to go to the election. |
0:06.7 | We're focusing on three seats in the West from Anna South Jerome, West Toronto and Mid Ulster. |
0:11.9 | Dr David McCann has been our numbers man for this series of six podcasts and he's rearing to go again. |
0:17.7 | We're also joined by the Press Associations Ireland, editor David Young, |
0:21.2 | and our political editor, and the McLaughordy. So welcome to all of you. Let's dive straight in with |
0:26.3 | from Anna South Jerome, which has been in the headlines since the early days of the campaign and which |
0:30.5 | had, of course, the smallest majority in Northern Ireland last time around, just 57 votes, the margin by |
0:36.5 | which Michelle Gilderney saw off Tom Elliott |
0:38.8 | in 2019. David McCann, give us your Fermanagh, South Tyrone, at a glance. |
0:44.4 | A hugely symbolic seat for both unionism and republicanism. Of course, the former seat of Bobby |
0:50.2 | Sands and, of course, there's the most westerly constituency in the United Kingdom. |
0:54.9 | There is some change coming to Fermanes South Troum. |
0:56.9 | Michelle Gilderney is standing down to make way for Pat Cullen, who is Sinn Féin's candidate |
1:01.7 | at this time, the former RCN General Secondary. |
1:04.6 | This is the first time she has ever run in an election in Northern Ireland, but she is a well-known figure. |
1:11.1 | Standing against her is Dan Armstrong. |
1:12.9 | She is the daughter of the former MP for the constituency and Ulster Unionist leader Harry West. |
1:17.5 | She's looking to take back the seat that Sinn Féin won back from the Austerunus in 2017. |
1:23.6 | It is a very tight constituency, as you said at the start just held by 57 votes. |
1:28.7 | And again, probably the competitive nature of the constituency is reflected in that this is also the highest turnout constituency in Northern Ireland. |
1:35.3 | Turnout was around 70% in 2019. |
1:38.2 | That's compared to Northern Ireland white turnout of around 62%. |
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