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The most affluent seat in Northern Ireland, in many ways resembling a Great British constituency, North Down is commuter-belt territory for Belfast. Its atypical nature is emphasised by the fact that it is the sole seat of the Ulster Popular Unionist Party, formed in 1980 as a 'left' non-sectarian splinter of the Official Unionists.
Even more atypical is the showing of John Major's Conservatives here, who ran a close second to the PUP in 1992. Boundary Commission changes affect the seat little, and it seems likely to return the PUP's Robert McCartney to Westminster.
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