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This is held by he DUP's Peter Robinson. Mr Robinson has held the seat continually since 1979. The seat has always elected a member of a Unionist party. The UUP did not even contest the seat in 1987 and 1992 but have since challenged Mr Robinson. In 2005, Reg Empey marginally reduced Mr Robinson's majority to 5,877. The Alliance Party regularly posts stronger numbers here than in other parts of Northern Ireland.
At the election, boundary changes mean that the seat loses two Castlereagh council wards to South Belfast and gains five from Strangford. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.
Belfast East contains Stormont, the seat of government and the devolved Assembly, with its statue of the Unionist leader Edward Carson dominating the driveway to the Assembly buildings. The seat is predominantly Protestant, with less than 10% of residents identifying themselves as Catholic. This is the smallest proportion of Catholics in Northern Ireland.
The huge cranes, known as Samson and Goliath, of the Harland and Wolff shipyard, have long dominated the landscape. The Titanic was built here.
With government buildings, engineering and the city airport within the constituency, unemployment is usually lower than in other parts of Belfast.
The Bombardier aerospace plant's overall health as a company is of vital importance to the constituency as a whole.
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This is held by he DUP's Peter Robinson. Mr Robinson has held the seat continually since 1979. The seat has always elected a member of a Unionist party. The UUP did not even contest the seat in 1987 and 1992 but have since challenged Mr Robinson. In 2005, Reg Empey marginally reduced Mr Robinson's majority to 5,877. The Alliance Party regularly posts stronger numbers here than in other parts of Northern Ireland.
At the election, boundary changes mean that the seat loses two Castlereagh council wards to South Belfast and gains five from Strangford. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.
Belfast East contains Stormont, the seat of government and the devolved Assembly, with its statue of the Unionist leader Edward Carson dominating the driveway to the Assembly buildings. The seat is predominantly Protestant, with less than 10% of residents identifying themselves as Catholic. This is the smallest proportion of Catholics in Northern Ireland.
The huge cranes, known as Samson and Goliath, of the Harland and Wolff shipyard, have long dominated the landscape. The Titanic was built here.
With government buildings, engineering and the city airport within the constituency, unemployment is usually lower than in other parts of Belfast.
The Bombardier aerospace plant's overall health as a company is of vital importance to the constituency as a whole.
The seat is socially mixed, combining some wards with the highest income levels in Northern Ireland with some with some wards suffering serious deprivation.
After decades of decline in the docklands, a massive redevelopment in the area now known as the Titanic quarter is under way around the centrepiece of The Odyssey, a new sports and entertainment centre which opened in 2001. Future plans include a blue-chip technology district, a Titanic Tourism Centre, hi-tech research and an expansion of the modern residential blocks. It is situated on a former brownfield site at Queen's Island, and the vision is of a modern district modelled on La Defense in Paris.
Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
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