Politics
The seat was always won by Ulster Unionist Party candidates. It was contested on four occasions, by members of the Ulster Liberal Party and People's Democracy and by two independent Unionist candidates, all of whom took less than 30% of the votes cast.
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“If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.”
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