Summary

  • DUP suffers bruising night, losing two MPs including its Westminster leader

  • Sinn Féin also drops vote share, but John Finucane wins in North Belfast

  • SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wins Foyle with thumping majority

  • Alliance's Stephen Farry takes North Down seat vacated by Lady Sylvia Hermon

  • A total of 803,367 were cast in Northern Ireland - a turnout of 62.09%

  • Final results: DUP - 8; SF- 7; SDLP - 2; Alliance - 1; UUP - 0

  1. Here's how NI's seats look so far...published at 04:24 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    Results scorecard
  2. DUP now hold just one of four seats in Belfastpublished at 04:17 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

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  3. Foyle: SDLP gainpublished at 04:16 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    Colum Eastwood has been elected as the MP for Foyle, beating the Sinn Féin candidate Elisha McCallion by 17,110 votes.

    The SDLP overturned a 169 vote majority to take the seat from Sinn Féin.

    Gary Middleton of the Democratic Unionist Party came third and Aontú Anne McCloskey came fourth.

    Voter turnout was down by 2 percentage points since the last general election.

    More than 47,000 people, 63.4% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

    Four of the seven candidates, Anne McCloskey (Aontú), Shaun Harkin (People Before Profit), Rachael Ferguson (Alliance Party) and Darren Guy (Ulster Unionist Party) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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  4. SDLP's Colum Eastwood takes Foyle seat from Sinn Féinpublished at 04:12 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    Foyle results card
  5. Carla Lockhart will win with 8,000 majority - sources suggestpublished at 04:10 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

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  6. Upper Bann 'looking comfortable for DUP'published at 04:08 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

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  7. Colum Eastwood may have broken John Hume's vote record in Foylepublished at 04:08 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

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  8. Michelle Gildernew is '62 votes ahead'published at 04:06 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

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  9. Sinn Féin's Elisha McCallion 'disappointed' in Foylepublished at 04:05 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

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  10. 'I can't help but think of my father' - John Finucanepublished at 04:05 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    John Finucane used his podium speech to pay tribute to his father - the murdered solicitor Pat Finucane.

    North Belfast's new MP - who took the seat from the DUP's Nigel Dodds - also said the pro-Remain Brexit message had been delivered loud and clear by the people of North Belfast.

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    Finucane pays tribute to murdered father after win

  11. It's a recount for Fermanagh South Tyrone...published at 04:00 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

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  12. Who shall take Fermanagh/South Tyrone?published at 03:56 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

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  13. 'We need to get cracking' - Mary Lou McDonaldpublished at 03:56 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    Reflecting on the prospect of Sinn Féin losing in Foyle, the party's president Mary Lou McDonald said she did not anticipate the SDLP's Colum Eastwood sitting in Westminster would have much impact on the Brexit debate.

    "As it turns out, nobody is going to stop Boris. As we had said, unfortunately no Irish MPs can stop Brexit," she said.

    On restoring Stormont, she said: "We are in on Monday and we need to get cracking. We need pace, we need purpose, we need urgency in getting the assembly up and running."

    Mary Lou McDonald
  14. 'Glum' DUP faces in South Belfastpublished at 03:54 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    Jayne McCormack
    BBC News NI political reporter

    The DUP had been expecting a tough fight in South Belfast - but perhaps not quite the electoral landslide for Claire Hanna that she received.

    The result came shortly after the DUP lost its biggest player in Westminster - deputy leader Nigel Dodds.

    Despite holding on in East Belfast (but with a much reduced majority), the DUP has lost a big chunk of its vote across Belfast.

    The faces here among DUP officials have been pretty glum, serious, concerned - it was the night they had been dreading.

    Claire Hanna
  15. Belfast South resultpublished at 03:52 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    Belfast South
  16. South Down resultpublished at 03:47 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    South Down
  17. Belfast South: SDLP gainpublished at 03:46 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    Claire Hanna has been elected as the MP for Belfast South, beating the DUP's Emma Little Pengelly by 15,401 votes.

    The SDLP overturned a 1,996 vote majority to take the seat which the DUP won in 2017.

    Paula Bradshaw of the Alliance Party came third and the Ulster Unionist Party's Michael Henderson came fourth.

    Voter turnout was up by 1.5 percentage points since the last general election.

    More than 47,000 people, roughly two-thirds of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

    Two of the five candidates, Michael Henderson (Ulster Unionist Party) and Chris McHugh (Aontú) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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  18. Fermanagh/South Tyrone - could be 20 votes in it?published at 03:45 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    Our reporter Louise Cullen says this constituency is no stranger to close calls.

    "Back in 2010, there were just four votes in it, now it looks like we could be repeating that.

    "I'm hearing that both Michelle Gildernew, Sinn Féin and Tom Elliott, UU, are at around 21,900 votes and are separated by as lttle as 20 votes," she says.

    "They are still counting. It looks like we are here for the long haul. The word 'recount' is on everybody's lips."

  19. SDLP's Claire Hanna takes seat in South Belfastpublished at 03:42 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    South Belfast result card
  20. 'North Belfast left unrepresented in Westminster'published at 03:41 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019

    The DUP's former leader in Westminster Nigel Dodds laments the loss of his North Belfast seat to Sinn Féin, whose representatives do not take their seats in the House of Commons.

    Sinn Féin has always held a policy of abstentionism when it comes to the House of Commons.

    It believes the interests of the Irish people can only be served by democratic institutions in Ireland, not at Westminster.

    It also opposes taking an oath of allegiance to the Queen, which all MPs are required to do in order to take their seats.

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    'North Belfast left unrepresented in Westminster'