SDLP hoping for repeat of tactical voting in enlarged Belfast South constituency

The SDLP’s Claire Hanna is hoping for a repeat of the tactical voting in the North’s most diverse constituency which swept her to Westminster in 2019.

However, due to boundary changes, the Belfast South constituency she has represented for the past five years has been enlarged and renamed Belfast South and Mid Down.

While the last Westminster election was dominated by Brexit, rival candidates, including the DUP’s Tracy Kelly and Alliance’s Kate Nicholl, are expecting that a new political landscape and environment will lead to a much closer race in the July 4th poll.

In 2019 Ms Hanna unseated the DUP’s Emma Little-Pengelly with a huge 15,401 majority after Sinn Féin and the Green Party did not run. While Sinn Féin will not contest the seat again, the Greens are in the running this time.

Another factor which has changed since 2019 is that the increased constituency now stretches well outside Belfast to…

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