The UUP's Tom Elliott won the Fermanagh South Tyrone seat, defeating sitting MP Michelle Gildernew with 530 votes to spare.

Ms Gildernew's victory in 2010 was a much tighter contest when the Sinn Féin representative won by just four votes.

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The News Letter reports, external that Sinn Féin's Pat Doherty caused some controversy during his acceptance speech after retaining his West Tyrone seat.

Mr Doherty's claim that West Tyrone was "still a republican seat" provoked a strong reaction from the DUP and UUP contingents.

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BBC News NI Economics & Business Editor

Economics and business editor John Campbell has tweeted, external his initial thoughts on what the election result means for Stormont's budget.

You can read the full article on the difficult decisions facing the NI Executive here.

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Ian Paisley Jr comfortably retained his North Antrim seat with 18,107 votes. The Paisley name has been synonymous with that seat for 45 years.

Here's a clip from 1970 of the late Ian Paisley's reaction to his first election to the Commons, for the Protestant Unionist Party.

Want to know the results of the election in Northern Ireland at a glance? Say no more. You can find them here.

There were a total of 138 candidates in Northern Ireland and 1.2m people were eligible to vote.

Lady Sylvia Hermon retained her seat in North Down as expected, but the Independent candidate's share of the vote dropped by 14.1%.

The SDLP's Mark Durkan said his party leader Alasdair McDonnell had "once again defied gravity almost in South Belfast."

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On criticism of Mr McDonnell's voting record in the Commons, he said: "Nobody could really argue that Alasdair's voting record in comparison to mine isn't related to the fact that he has a dual mandate and particularly the dual mandate and the role of party leader."

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Ulster Unionist Danny Kinahan put his victory down to "hard work and the people of South Antrim putting their faith in me".

Mr Kinahan said: "I think there was a mood here in South Antrim to have someone different and a different approach to how politics is done."

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The SDLP's Alasdair McDonnell took South Belfast with 9,560 votes.

It was a case of history repeating itself, as this archive clip from 2005 shows him winning the South Belfast Westminster seat. Ten years ago a split in the unionist vote allowed him through.

BBC News NI's Kerry Thompson tweets, external a picture of busy reporter Will Leitch who will have all of the election results at 08:27 for BBC Newsline.

Stormont Finance Minister Simon Hamilton has hailed the impact of the unionist pact in four constituencies across Northern Ireland.

Mr Hamilton said: "The pact has been successful in that it has increased unionist representation in the House of Commons by two seats."

For those of you just waking up, here's a short video that tells the story of Northern Ireland's Election Night.

Sinn Féin has lost Fermanagh and South Tyrone to the Ulster Unionists, the DUP's Gavin Robinson has ousted Naomi Long from East Belfast and Danny Kinahan of the UUP has taken South Antrim from the DUP.

The UUP's Danny Kinahan has taken South Antrim, a seat that had been held by the DUP's Willie McCrea since 2005.

An interesting fact about South Antrim's newly elected MP? His cousin is none other than Chris de Burgh. Kinahan will be making regular trips across the water to Westminster now - let's hope he remembers to pay the ferryman.

Despite not winning any seats, Green Party leader Stephen Agnew says that he is happy with the increase in his party's vote.

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Mr Agnew said: "Deputy leader Clare Bailey took a 5.7% share of the vote, up 2.7% since 2010. This bodes well for next year's Assembly elections and we have confidence that South Belfast will see a Green MLA."

Political correspondent Stephen Walker tweets, external that Northern Ireland born Lib Dem Michael Moore has lost his seat to the SNP in Berwickshire.

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Mike Nesbitt says that Tom Elliott's win for the the UUP in Fermanagh South Tyrone was a victory for unionism.

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Mr Nesbitt said: "After the local government election last year I took my blank page for this campaign and what I wanted at number one was to win back for unionism off Sinn Féin the most westerly constituency in the United Kingdom, because that sends out a massive positive message to unionism."

It's now officially the morning after the night before so here's a re-cap on the major results in Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin has lost Fermanagh and South Tyrone to the Ulster Unionists, the Democratic Unionist Party regained the East Belfast seat lost five years ago.

The Ulster Unionists now have two MPs, after taking South Antrim from the DUP. Elsewhere, it's as you were.

Ciaran McCauley
BBC News NI

That's it for the overnight BBC News NI Live team - we're off home for some sleep, but that ain't the end of our coverage.

Our live page continues on until 14:00 and will have all the latest reaction and analysis from an eventful night of political intrigue. Thanks for joining us.

It's not just politicians looking on anxiously tonight - bookies have a lot riding on the results too.

In this footage from 1974, reporter David Capper canvasses the opinion of punters and speaks to bookmaker Sean Graham, who says elections are unpredictable thanks to the "fickle" public.