If it does, East Belfast could expand radically into current North Down and Strangford territory.
The trade unions and the North Down MP, Lady Sylvia Hermon, worried about the potential cost to public services.
Less than half the electorate voted in North Down, while the figure in West Tyrone fell from 71% to 64%.
Coverage of 3G is mainly good in north Down and Castlereagh, but it's very poor in the rest of County Down.
North Down MLA Stephen Farry said there had been "a lot of frustration" over the lack of progress throughout the town.
After years of neglect North Down Council ordered the company responsible for the land to address the dilapidated condition of the buildings.
He was released under the Good Friday Agreement and these days is a leader of the UDA in north Down and Ards.
The Corporation Tax campaign united the Stormont parties, despite opposition from the trade unions and the North Down MP Lady Sylvia Hermon.
The South Antrim assembly member Duncan Shipley-Dalton has said he would be interested in taking over from Mr Weir as North Down candidate.
Sean Lester started working as a journalist with the North Down Herald and later became news editor on the Freeman's Journal in Dublin.
The auditor also expressed shock at how poorly North Down Council handled the purchase of 14 ejection trailers for its new waste transfer station.
"The seafront has become particularly run down with the notorious Queen's Parade, which has regrettably become the greatest eye-sore in North Down, " he added.
North Down is a funny sort of place... well, election-wise anyway.
Also in attendance was former North Down Alliance councillor Adam Harbinson.
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Among the passengers who perished were Northern Ireland's then Deputy Prime Minister, Major J M Sinclair, and Sir Walter Smiles, the Ulster Unionist MP for North Down.
The highest proportions of people who neither belong to, nor have been brought up in a religion are in North Down (12%), Carrickfergus (10%) and Ards (9.4%).
But if his party's two remaining seats are North Down, held by Lady Sylvia Hermon, and South Antrim, held by David Burnside, he may not have much choice.
The two main unionist parties have condemned the carnage in Carrickfergus and the attack on the family home of two Alliance councillors in North Down as "legally and morally wrong".
On Friday, Lady Sylvia Hermon, who chairs the party's North Down constituency association, said she did not want to comment until she had been officially informed of the disciplinary committee's decision.
On 4 July 2012, as Mr Paterson and his team took MPs' questions, he was urged by North Down MP Lady Hermon "to find a long-term solution to this agonising problem for many, many people, which has heaped misery upon misery upon misery".
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An example is the Minot incident, where six live nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52 and flown from North Dakota down to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
This week, for example, Japan and North Korea sat down in Pyongyang to discuss normalizing relations.
Retail sales in North America were down 1.3%, with revenue from the wholesale channel up 1%.
Ministers had believed that, as the North Sea ran down, new import infrastructure would bridge any gaps.
Situated in the Kent North Downs, Down House gave Darwin access to valleys in Downe and Cudham.
Parts of it remain pleasantly rural: low, undulating and verdant, as North Carolina rolls down from the mountains to the sea.
At the other end, Johnson set about the bowling with aggression and the pair quickly racked up a century partnership before North was lured down the track attempting to heave across the line to Paul Harris.
So when Gap reported glumly a few weeks ago that after a strong November, December same-store sales had softened (Gap North America comps down 8% year-over-year, others not so bad) the stock got even more depressed.
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