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Election 2019 - Northern Ireland seats

Some pointers on the key parties and seats in Northern Ireland, where the 2019 elections raise a number of key questions: 

Will unionist voters stick with the DUP in the wake of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, or punish its MPs for sustaining Johnson's Government? Can the UUP benefit from their rivals discomfiture, or are they inextricably bound together in the cause of unionist unity? Could it be the emerging anti-Brexit force of Alliance which profits instead? 

Will the tribulations of Brexit reinforce nationalists' 2017 decision to opt for Sinn Fein, a party focused on Dublin and Brussels rather than Westminster, or lead them to reconsider in favour of the SDLP?

Election 2019 - useful sites

A few sites worth keeping an eye on in the coming weeks of the UK general election campaign:

 

Democratic Dashboard - If you are a UK resident this is a good place to find tailored information on the elections in your area.

UK General Election 2019 poll tracker - from the Guardian.

UK Polling Report - blog by Anthony Wells of YouGov.

Election Polling - useful particularly for its lists of the marginal seats battlegrounds.

Electoral Calculus - analysis site by Martin Baxter with a lot of valuable data, though its seat calculator is controversial. Best treated as 'a bit of fun' in the spirit of John Snow.

Region by Region Guide - a short regional overview (excluding Northern Ireland) from Chaminda Jayanetti at Politics.co.uk

Northern Ireland Elections - excellent reference site by Nicholas Whyte.