Summary

  • Alliance Party's Naomi Long loses East Belfast seat to DUP's Gavin Robinson

  • Sinn Féin’s Michelle Gildernew loses Fermanagh and South Tyrone seat to UUP’s Tom Elliott

  • DUP's Willie McCrea loses South Antrim seat to UUP's Danny Kinahan

  • Final results: DUP: 8 (-) Sinn Féin: 4 (-1) SDLP: 3 UUP: 2 (+2) Ind: 1 Alliance: 0 (-1)

  1. South Downpublished at 03:26 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Chris Thornton
    BBC News NI

    The SDLP's Margaret Ritchie arrives at the count centre for South Down result.

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    Her party has held the seat since 1987. She first won it in 2010.

  2. Belfast Eastpublished at 03:25 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Chris Buckler
    BBC Ireland Correspondent

    Naomi Long is disappointed but says she was "blown away" by support in Belfast East. Claims it was a moral victory for the Alliance party.

  3. Fermanagh & South Tyronepublished at 03:24 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Louise Cullen
    BBC NI News

    The declaration is now expected at 07:00 - time for a couple of hours' shut-eye.

  4. Belfast Eastpublished at 03:23 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Naomi Long

    The Alliance Party's Naomi Long says it has been "a rollercoaster five years for some of us", after her defeat to Gavin Robinson of the DUP in Belfast East.

    "I want to thank those in my party and in my team who canvassed, who campaigned, who knocked doors, who ran a campaign that I think is unrivalled in the history of Northern Ireland politics, who added over 4,000 votes to our previous vote in this constituency.

    "And we polled the best vote Alliance has ever polled."

  5. Belfast Westpublished at 03:22 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    The vice-president of Sinn Fein, Mary Lou McDonald, has tweeted, external this photograph from the Belfast count.

    Mary Lou's photo

    It features the party leader Gerry Adams and the MP Paul Maskey, who has since been re-elected in Belfast West.

  6. Wrong partypublished at 03:21 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Momentary dicey moment in the Election 2015 studio as Mark Carruthers introduces David Ford as the leader of the DUP.

    David Ford

    It's getting to that time of night...

  7. Belfast Westpublished at 03:20 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Gerry Carroll of People Before Profit pushes SDLP into third place in Belfast West. 6,748 votes versus 3,475.

    Gerry Carroll
  8. South Downpublished at 03:19 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Maggie Taggart

    In South Down, Sinn Fein says it has eaten into the SDLP vote, but it seems Margaret Ritchie is in no danger.

    Caitriona Ruane is here to see her successor as candidate increase the vote she got last time.

  9. East Belfastpublished at 03:18 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    BBC NI presenter Tara Mills looks at where the votes went in East Belfast.

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  10. East Antrimpublished at 03:15 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Wilson

    Sammy Wilson says the DUP will use what leverage it has in Westminster to improve lives in Northern Ireland and to strengthen the union.

  11. Belfast Westpublished at 03:14 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Belfast West result: Sinn Féin's Paul Maskey re-elected with 3,000 extra of a mandate.

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  12. Belfast Eastpublished at 03:08 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Mark Devenport
    BBC News NI Political Editor

    Alliance's Stephen Farry says Peter Robinson was more gracious in defeat five years ago than Gavin Robinson was in victory.

  13. Belfast Westpublished at 03:06 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Paul Maskey, Sinn Féin - 19,163

    Gerry Carroll, People Before Profit - 6,798

    Alex Attwood, SDLP - 3,475

    Frank McCoubrey, DUP - 2,773

    Bill Manwaring, UUP - 1,088

    Brian Higginson, UKIP - 765

    Gerard Catney, Alliance Party - 636

    John Lowry, Workers Party - 597

    Paul Shea, Conservative Party - 34

  14. Belfast Westpublished at 03:04 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Paul Maskey is elected in Belfast West.

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  15. Belfast Eastpublished at 03:02 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Chris Buckler
    BBC Ireland Correspondent

    Alliance leader David Ford clearly disappointed at the result in Belfast East. Party thought they had fought a strong campaign.

    David Ford
  16. Over halfway therepublished at 03:01 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Ciaran McCauley
    BBC News NI

    We've had 10 results out of 18 - the story of the night so far is that the UUP's Danny Kinahan has been elected ahead of DUP's William McCrea and Gavin Robinson has deposed Naomi Long in Belfast East.

    Get the energy drinks and prepare the sickie excuses for work - we've got eight more results to go yet.

  17. Belfast Eastpublished at 02:59 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    The DUP's Gavin Robinson, the new MP for Belfast East, says he is "delighted that the last five long years are over".

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    "When people were offered the choice as to whether they wished to go forward or back, they chose forward, and they chose forward with somebody they can trust."

    "This has been a polarising election, it's been an election that has energised people right across the constituency and you can see that in the votes."

  18. South Downpublished at 02:58 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    The DUP's Jim Wells arrives at the South Down count.

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    He tells BBC News NI's Maggie Taggart he has bigger fish to fry than the current election.

  19. Belfast Eastpublished at 02:57 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Chris Buckler
    BBC Ireland Correspondent

    I'm standing between DUP and Alliance supporters as Gavin Robinson gives his acceptance speech. East Belfast was clearly a bitter battle...

  20. Belfast Eastpublished at 02:56 British Summer Time 8 May 2015

    Gavin Robinson, DUP - 19,575

    Naomi Long, Alliance Party - 16,978

    Neil Wilson, Conservative Party - 1,121

    Ross Brown, Green Party - 1,058

    Niall Ó Donnghaile, Sinn Féin - 823

    Mary Muldoon, SDLP - 127