A unionist candidate who lost the Fermanagh-South Tyrone seat in the UK general election earlier this month by just four votes has launched a judicial challenge to the result.
Unionist Unity candidate Rodney Connor has asked the Belfast Election Court to review the outcome of the vote.
Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew was elected to the seat after three recounts.
After the first count, only eight votes separated the independent unionist candidate and the Sinn Féin minister, sparking a re-count at 3am.
After three recounts - the first giving Mrs Gildernew the edge by ten votes, then two and finally four - the tightest of contests was declared for Sinn Féin.
Ms Gildernew said it was a legal matter between Mr Connor and the Electoral Office.
‘As far as I am concerned the people of Fermanagh and South Tyrone have spoken and returned me as their MP,’ she said.
‘That is democracy and in the first past the post system that means the person with the most votes is returned as the winner.
‘I appreciate Mr Connor may find that hard to accept but that is the rules we were all playing by.’
