Assembly elections:Almost 250 candidates will stand in the Northern Ireland Assembly election on March 7th, with 108 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to be elected across 18 constituencies.
The DUP will field 46 candidates, with the Ulster Unionists putting forward 38. Sinn Féin is standing 37 candidates, the SDLP 35, while 18 are running for the Alliance Party.
The UKUP will have 13 candidates, although Robert McCartney, the party leader, breaks new ground by standing in six separate constituencies. The Green Party will also field 13 candidates, while the Conservative Party will put forward nine and the Workers' Party six.
Tom French, Workers' Party director of elections, said they would "offer a democratic, anti-sectarian, left alternative", and would "flush out the sectarian interests that keep people divided".
"Rainbow" George Weiss will stand for the Make Politicians History Party in four constituencies, while the Progressive Unionist Party will contest three, including the East Belfast seat of their late leader David Ervine.
The new leader of the PUP, Dawn Purvis, said: "The PUP will continue with David's work. The problems of constituents are the same today as they were yesterday." However, she admitted it was a "huge challenge".
The Socialist Party has two candidates running, while there is one each from Labour, People Before Profit, Pro-capitalism and United Kingdom Independence parties.
Eamonn McCann, the journalist, author and political activist, will run for the Social Environmental Alliance in Foyle. He said he is standing for "the unity of the discontented, whether Catholic or Protestant".
A total of 26 Independent candidates complete the line-up, including six from Republican Sinn Féin. They are treated as Independents as they are not registered as a party. Party president Ruairí Ó Brádaigh has said that "when elected" Assembly members from his party will not take their seats in Stormont.
Former DUP member Paul Berry, who left the party after allegations about his private life in a Sunday newspaper, remains in his constituency of Newry and Armagh as an Independent. Another Independent in the area will be Davy Hyland, who resigned from Sinn Féin after being de-selected in a disagreement over his views on policing.
Raymond McCord snr, whose campaign concerning the murder of his son Raymond jnr sparked a Police Ombudsman's report, will stand as an Independent in North Belfast. Mr McCord, who previously entered the Assembly elections in 2003, said he is standing as he was "dismayed" at unionist reaction to the report.Campaign trail:
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Alliance Party candidate launch - Belfast Castle 11am