McCallion endorsed as SFWestminster candidate

Sinn FÃ©in have selected Elisha McCallion as the party's candidate for Foyle in the forthcoming Westminster election.

The MLA and former councillor for the Ballyarnett District Electoral Area of Derry City and Strabane District Council was endorsed, as the only nominee, at a selection meeting.

Mrs. McCallion recently spearheaded Sinn Féin’s best ever election result in Derry, topping the poll in the Assembly election in March with 9,205 first preference votes, 20.7 per cent of all valid ballot papers. She is now likely to face nationalist rival Mark Durkan of the SDLP, long dominant in Foyle, in the Westminster poll on June 8.