This week The Irish News has run a series of profiles of the eigh t constituencies in the north which we believe represent the key battle grounds on May 7. The following is a list of candidates in the ten remaining seats:
WEST BELFAST Alex Attwood (SDLP)
Gerry Carroll (People Before Profit)
Gerard Catney (Alliance) Brian Higginson (UKIP)
John Lowry (Workers Party) Bill Manwaring (UUP)
Paul Maskey (Sinn Féin) Frank McCoubrey (DUP)
Paul Shea (Conservative)
EAST ANTRIM Roy Beggs (UUP)
Stewart Dickson (Alliance) Noel Jordan (UKIP) Margaret Anne McKillop (SDLP)
Oliver McMullan (Sinn Féin) Alex Wilson (Conservative) Ruth Wilson (TUV)
Sammy Wilson (DUP)
EAST DERRY Caoimhe Archibald (Sinn Féin) Yvonne Boyle (Alliance) Gregory Campbell (DUP) William McCandless (UUP)
Gerry Mullan (SDLP)
Neil Paine (Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol)
Elizabeth St Clair-Legge (Conservative)
LAGAN VALLEY Pat Catney (SDLP)
Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP) Alan Love (UKIP)
Trevor Lunn (Alliance)
Jacqui McGeough (Sinn Féin)
Samuel Morrison (TUV)
Jonny Orr (Independent) Helen Osborne (Conservative) Alexander Redpath (UUP)
MID ULSTER Eric Bullick (Alliance) Alan Day (UKIP)
Gareth Ferguson (TUV) Ian McCrea (DUP) Francie Molloy (Sinn Féin) Lucille Nicholson
(Conservative)
Sandra Overend (UUP) Malachy Quinn (SDLP)
Hugh Scullion (Workers Party)
NORTH ANTRIM Jayne Dunlop (Alliance)
Carol Freeman (Conservative) Timothy Gaston (TUV) Robert Hill (UKIP)
Daithí McKay (Sinn Féin) Declan O'Loan (SDLP)
Ian Paisley (DUP)
Thomas Palmer (Independent) Robin Swann (UUP)
NORTH DOWN Steven Agnew (Green)
Mark Brotherston (Conservative)
William Cudworth (TUV) Glenn Donnelly (Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol)
Alex Easton (DUP)
Sylvia Hermon Jonny Lavery (UKIP) Therese McCartney (Sinn Féin)
Andrew Muir (Alliance) Tom Woolley (SDLP)
SOUTH DOWN Felicity Buchan (Conservative) Chris Hazzard (Sinn Féin) Harold McKee (UUP)
Henry Reilly (UKIP)
Margaret Ritchie (SDLP) Martyn Todd (Alliance)
Jim Wells (DUP) STRANGFORD Johnny Andrews (Conservative)
Kellie Armstrong (Alliance) Sheila Bailie (Sinn Féin)
Joe Boyle (SDLP)
Robert Burgess (UUP) Stephen Cooper (TUV)
Joe Jordan (UKIP)
Jim Shannon (DUP)
WEST TYRONE Barry Brown (Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol)
Tom Buchanan (DUP)
Pat Doherty (Sinn Féin) Stephen Donnelly (Alliance) Ross Hussey (UUP) Claire-Louise Leyland (Conservative)
Ciaran McClean (Green) Daniel McCrossan (SDLP) Susan-Anne White (Independent)