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NI Election - News by constituency

NI elections - First counts complete
NI elections - First counts complete

Here is a summary of the latest headlines. Full results to date are on our Assembly 2007 site.

North Antrim

The UUP's Robert Coulter has taken the fourth seat.

Ian Paisley Jr was elected on the second count.

DUP leader Ian Paisley was joined by Sinn Féin's Daithi McKay in being elected on the first count.

Lagan Valley

The DUP took a second seat when David Jonathan Craig was elected on the eighth count. The final seat is between two more DUP candidates.

Trevor Lunn of the Alliance Party and the UUP's Basil McCrea were elected on count seven.

Paul Butler was elected on the sixth count, a Sinn Féin gain.

UUP MLA Billy Bell was eliminated on the sixth count. Sitting SDLP MLA Marietta Farrell had been eliminated on the fifth count.

Jeffrey Donaldson of the DUP was elected on the first count, having polled almost two full quotas.

Mid Ulster

Patsy McGlone of the SDLP has taken the fifth seat.

Sinn Féin won three seats, their biggest single constituency seat win so far in this election.

The party's chief negotiator, Martin McGuinness, topped the poll with a total of 8065 first preference votes. He was followed by the DUP's Ian McCrea on 7608 votes. Sinn Féin's Francis Molloy was also elected with 6597 votes and he was joined by Michelle O'Neill on 6432 votes.

Newry & Armagh: COMPLETED

The SDLP's Dominic Bradley has taken the final seat, deemed elected without reaching the quota.

The UUP's Danny Kennedy and the DUP's William Irwin had been elected on the fifth count.

Sinn Féin's Mickey Brady took the third seat on the fourth count.

Party colleagues Conor Murphy topped the poll with 7,437 votes, closely followed by Cathal Boylan on 7,105.

Outgoing MLA Davy Hyland, elected for SF but standing as an independent, lost his seat.

Upper Bann: ADJOURNED

The count has adjourned until 9am tomorrow.

Sinn Féin's John O'Dowd topped the poll with 7,733 votes.
Also elected was the DUP's David Simpson who secured 6,828 votes.

The voting pattern indicates that Sinn Féin are in line to take a second seat here at the expense of the UUP in David Trimble's old constituency. This would be a SF gain.

South Down

Sitting MLAs Margaret Ritchie, of the SDLP and Willie Clarke of Sinn Fein have been elected.

Catriona Ruane of Sinn Féin topped the poll with 6,334 votes but was not elected until the 7th count.

Outgoing MLA Davy Hyland, a former Sinn Féin MLA who was de-selected, was eliminated.

Strangford: ADJOURNED

The count has adjourned until 9am tomorrow.

The DUP's Iris Robinson was elected on the first count: she polled 5,917 votes.

Sitting Alliance party MLA Kieran McCarthy got an impressive 4,085 votes.

Fermanagh and South Tyrone: ADJOURNED

The count has adjourned until 9am tomorrow.

Tom Elliott of the UUP was elected on the second count.

The DUP's Arlene Foster topped the poll with 7,138 votes. Also elected was Sinn Féin's Michelle Gilldernew on 7,026 votes.

West Tyrone: ADJOURNED

The count has adjourned until 9am tomorrow.

Sinn Féin have won three seats. Claire McGill was elected on the third count.

SF's Barry McElduff and Pat Doherty were elected on the first count, Mr McElduff with 6,971 votes and Mr Doherty on 6,709.

Foyle: ADJOURNED

The count has adjourned until 9am tomorrow.

SDLP leader Mark Durcan and the DUP's William Hay were both elected on the first count.

East Londonderry: ADJOURNED

The count has adjourned until 9am tomorrow.

So far only the DUP's Gregory Campbell has been elected, taking the first seat, and the DUP appears on target to take a seat from the OUP.

Sinn Féin may take a first-ever nationalist seat .

Belfast West

Solid indications suggest that Sinn Féin may get five seats at the expense of the DUP's Diane Dodds, who won her seat by a narrow margin at the last election.

Gerry Adams topped the poll on 6029 votes and was elected on the first count, followed by party colleague Sue Ramsey on the second.

The other SF candidates in the constituency are Paul Maskey who currently needs 54 votes to reach the quota of 4828. Jennifer McCann needs 162 votes and Fra McCann is 483 short.

South Antrim

Sinn Féin's Mitchell McLaughlin topped the poll with 6,313 votes. He was closely followed by the DUP's Rev Willie McCrea who got 6,023. The quota was 5,454 and both were elected on the first count.

David Ford, leader of the Alliance Party, is not far from the quota on 5,007 votes.

The UUP's David Burnside polled strongly with 4,507 votes followed by the DUP's Trevor Clarke on 4,302 votes.

Belfast East

Ulster Unionist Party leader Reg Empey has passed the quota to be elected in the third count.

DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson topped the poll and was elected on the first count.

Alliance deputy leader Naomi Long polled well and was also elected.

But the Ulster Unionist vote in this area has dropped and Dawn Purvis may be able to hold a seat for the PUP.

North Antrim

The DUP's Ian Paisley jnr was elected on the second count.

DUP leader Ian Paisley was joined by Sinn Féin's Daithi McKay in being elected on the first count.

Belfast North

Sinn Féin has won another seat after Carál Ní Chuilín was elected after the third count.

The DUP's Nigel Dodds and Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly were elected on the first count.

East Antrim

Sammy Wilson polled strongly to head the list and was elected on the first count.

It seems that Sean Neeson's Alliance Party seat is likely to be safe.

North Down

Alexander Easton of the DUP was elected with 4,946 of the first preference votes.

Belfast South

Jimmy Spratt of the DUP and Alasdair McDonnell of the SDLP were both elected on the first count.

John Esmond Birnie, the incumbent UUP MLA, has seen his vote collapse to 1,804 first preference votes.

Anna Lo of the Alliance Party polled very strongly with 3,829.

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