No nationalist pact means it's for Dodds to lose
Constituency Profile - BELFAST NORTH:IN THE last Assembly elections North Belfast broke down three seats each for unionists and nationalists – two DUP and one Ulster Unionist representative, two Sinn Féiners and one SDLP Assembly member. So, at a big mathematical push, this could be classified as a marginal constituency.
But really it’s for the DUP’s Nigel Dodds to lose. The Dodds couple – Nigel and Diane – suffered something of a crisis of confidence last year due to Diane’s poor performance in the European Parliament election, even though she managed to win the seat, coming in third under the quota in the three-seater behind Sinn Féin’s Bairbre de Brún and the Ulster Unionist Jim Nicholson. This was a far cry from Ian Paisley regularly and thunderously trooping home first.