Seat to remain unionist as TUV move avoids split in vote
CONSTITUENCY PROFILE:THIS WAS the seat that provided the headline grabbing result in 2005. David Simpson finally toppled David Trimble – the highest ranking casualty of the DUP’s assault on its chief unionist rival.
Five years later, Mr Simpson is doing the rounds again. Before the rise of the DUP or Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionist MP here was the late Harold McCusker.