Westminster '97
SOUTH BELFAST CANDIDATE SEAN HAYES
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Sean Hayes is a thirty-six year old married man from the Markets area of South Belfast.
He has been involved in local and community politics for many years and has been to the fore in the Irish language revival and cultural renaissance in Belfast.
A member of many cultural, political and trades union bodies, including Unison, Conradh na Gaeilge, the Markets Development Association of which he is a former Chairperson, Glór na nGael and Amnesty International.
While a student at Queens University Sean was an active member of the Students Union and other University organisations.
CONSTITUENCY PROFILE
Belfast South
This constituency is very much a changed constituency from its last outing in a Westminster election. Luckily for sitting Ulster Unionist MP Martin Smyth he will not have to contend with the swapping of wards with neighbouring East Belfast. The wards South Belfast gains are from the DUP stronghold of Castlereagh council area. The DUP did not run here in 1992 and have stood aside for Smyth again in 1997. Sinn Fein doubled its vote in 1996 setting a new benchmark for 1997 for Seán Hayes to improve on his 1992 showing.