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13/09/2011
Belfast To Lose Westminster Seat
Provisional recommendations of a new boundary review to reduce the number of UK MPs by 10%, could mean Belfast will lose one of its four Westminster seats.
The west will also lose one of its current constituencies, reducing the number of MPs in NI from 18 to 16.
The review will also cut the number of Stormont Assembly members by 12.
As the same boundaries are used for Stormont elections as Westminster ones, its suggestions are vital reading for MLAs as well as MPs.
As expected, Alasdair McDonnell's South Belfast seat will go, divided between expanded Belfast South West and South East seats.
In the west, Mid Ulster, East Londonderry and West Tyrone are reorganised into two new seats - Glenshane and Mid Tyrone.
Other changes include the Ards Peninsula moving from Strangford to North Down and much of Ballymena moving from North Antrim to a new Mid Antrim seat.
These proposals are set to go out to a 12-week consultation, when politicians and voters will have the opportunity to tell the boundary commissioners what they think of their new map.
The Alliance Party's only MP, Naomi Long, will see her East Belfast constituency altered considerably but she said it could help her retain the seat.
She commented: "Some of the areas which would be coming back into East Belfast would be very good areas for us in the previous assembly elections.
"They moved out to South Belfast just before the last Westminster elections."
(JG/CD)
The west will also lose one of its current constituencies, reducing the number of MPs in NI from 18 to 16.
The review will also cut the number of Stormont Assembly members by 12.
As the same boundaries are used for Stormont elections as Westminster ones, its suggestions are vital reading for MLAs as well as MPs.
As expected, Alasdair McDonnell's South Belfast seat will go, divided between expanded Belfast South West and South East seats.
In the west, Mid Ulster, East Londonderry and West Tyrone are reorganised into two new seats - Glenshane and Mid Tyrone.
Other changes include the Ards Peninsula moving from Strangford to North Down and much of Ballymena moving from North Antrim to a new Mid Antrim seat.
These proposals are set to go out to a 12-week consultation, when politicians and voters will have the opportunity to tell the boundary commissioners what they think of their new map.
The Alliance Party's only MP, Naomi Long, will see her East Belfast constituency altered considerably but she said it could help her retain the seat.
She commented: "Some of the areas which would be coming back into East Belfast would be very good areas for us in the previous assembly elections.
"They moved out to South Belfast just before the last Westminster elections."
(JG/CD)
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