Ulster Unionist Robin Swann is to step down as Health Minister when his general election campaign starts; He will be standing for the UUP in South Antrim in an attempt to gain the seat from the DUP’s Paul Girvan.
Blair was co-opted into the South Antrim seat formerly held by David Ford in 2018 and was re-elected in the 2022 Assembly election.
TUV leader Jim Allister and Reform UK leader Richard Tice today formed a partnership to contest the upcoming general election, signing a ‘memorandum of understanding’.
Danny Donnelly has been an MLA for East Antrim since 2022, and ran in the 2019 general election, failing to get elected but he came second with the DUP holding the seat.
The Ulster Unionist Party have announced that Matthew Bell will stand in West Tyrone in an attempt to take the seat from Sinn Fein who gained it in 2001 – from the Ulster Unionists.
Kate Nicholl was first elected to Belfast City Council in 2016 and was Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2021-2022. She was elected to the Assembly in 2022.
Retired army veteran Tim Collins will run as the Ulster Unionist’s candidate for North Down in the upcoming general election, aiming to take the seat from Alliance.