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06 Sept 2025

AE22 EAST DERRY: Final list of election candidates confirmed

Nominations for selection closed this evening.

EAST DERRY: Final list of election candidates confirmed

A selection of the candidates for East Derry.

Cara Hunter (SDLP)

After being co-opted to East Derry following the death of John Dallat in May 2020, Cara Hunter is facing into her first Assembly election.

The Portrush native polled an encouraging 6,158 (15%) in the 2019 Westminster election, finishing a distant second to constituency behemoth Gregory Campbell of the DUP.

Cross-community transfers took her predecessor over the line in 2017 and Hunter will be looking to build on the work she has done in the constituency in the interim.

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