Colum Eastwood with Foyle candidates Mark H Durkan (left) and Gerry Diver with the party’s 2016 manifesto
A TOTAL of 17 candidates will contest the Foyle constituency in the next month’s Assembly elections.
Voters go to the polls on May 5 in what is expected to be a fiercely contest election in Derry.
The SDLP will be hoping to retain its three seats.
But Sinn Fein have a plan to take one seat off its political rivals after parachuting Martin McGuinness in to fight the Foyle constituency.
The candidates contesting the Assembly election in Foyle are:
Kathleen Bradley (Independent),
Maurice Devenney (Independent),
Gerard Diver (SDLP),
Alan Dunlop (NI Conservatives),
Mark H Durkan (SDLP),
Colum Eastwood (SDLP),
Mary Hassan (Green NI),
Julia Kee (UUP),
John Lindsay (CISTA),
Eamonn McCann (People Before Profit),
Raymond McCartney (Sinn Fein),
Chris McCaw (Alliance), D
Dr Anne McCloskey (Independent),
Martin McGuinness (Sinn Fein),
Maeve McLaughlin (Sinn Fein)
and Gary Middleton (DUP).
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