Newry and Armagh - a new face is guaranteed

Mickey Brady has held the seat for Sinn Féin since 2015, but he is stepping down.

Mr Hughes is an unknown quantity as he has been out of electoral politics for a decade. His selection illustrates his party’s confidence that it will once again retain a seat it has held since Conor Murphy won it in May 2005, when the former MP and SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon retired. For the past 20 years, Sinn Féin has consistently polled in the region of 40-48% of votes in the constituency, so Daire Hughes is the clear favourite.The Traditional Unionist Voice, which has accused the DUP of going soft on Brexit and the so-called Irish Sea Border, did not contest this seat in 2019 but is in the running this time.

Mr Ratcliff polled over 9% of first preferences in the Stormont Assembly elections in 2022, more than 5,000 votes, and could do real damage to the DUP vote.The current mayor of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council from Crossmaglen in south Armagh finished third in 2019 with 18.6% of the vote.

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