The DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson confessed he was finding it chilly in the Magherafelt count.

"Belfast got the Titanic centre; we got the iceberg," he joked.

On the DUP's performance, he said: It's disappointing when colleagues are going to potentially lose their seats.

"Alliance has done well.

"Having knocked thousands of doors, the big big issue was Stormont and the crisis in the health service.

"People are fed up we don't have a government."

Watch Stephen Farry - North Down's new MP - deliver a Brexit warning to the future prime minister of the UK.

The Alliance party is pro-remain and Mr Farry says a hard Brexit will be destabilising and destructive for Northern Ireland.

The acrimony between the DUP and Boris Johnson over his proposed Brexit deal has been no secret.

Retaining his seat in Strangford, the DUP's Jim Shannon has used a dog-related analogy to hit out at the Conservative party leader.

"The union has been degraded and downgraded by Boris Johnson," he said.

"I suppose the best way of describing Boris Johnson is, and it’s for the record, he would take your Alsatian dog for a walk, he’d come back an hour later and he’d give you a Chihuahua - and he would say it was alright."

Órfhlaith Begley has been elected MP for West Tyrone, meaning that Sinn Féin holds the seat.

She beat the DUP's Thomas Buchanan by 7,478 votes.

Daniel McCrossan of the SDLP came third and the Alliance Party's Stephen Donnelly came fourth.

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More than 41,000 people, 62.2% 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 seven candidates, James Hope (Aontú) and Susan Glass (Green) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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The BBC's Stephen Walker is at the Titanic count centre, and is hearing from a "number of well-placed sources" that Sinn Féin's John Finucane could be set to take North Belfast by about 1,000 votes.

Stephen Walker said: "What a story that would be, to see Nigel Dodds lose his seat in North Belfast. The deputy leader of the party, the leader of the party at Westminster. That would be one of the big stories of the night."

Alliance's Stephen Farry has taken the stand as the new MP for North Down.

"It's a huge result for the Alliance Party," he said, adding that Sylvia Hermon was "a class act" to follow.

On Brexit, he said Northern Ireland stood for Remain and he called for Stormont to get "back to work on the hill".

Jim Shannon has been re-elected as the MP for Strangford, with a decreased majority.

The Democratic Unionist Party candidate beat the Alliance Party's Kellie Armstrong by 7,071 votes, less than half the majority at the 2017 election.

Philip Smith of the Ulster Unionist Party came third and the Social Democratic & Labour Party's Joe Boyle came fourth.

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Voter turnout was down by 4.2 percentage points since the last general election.

More than 37,000 people, 56% 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 eight candidates, Grant Abraham (Conservative), Maurice Macartney (Green), Ryan Carlin (Sinn Féin) and Robert Stephenson (UKIP) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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BBC News NI political reporter

The Alliance Party will be thinking their decision to stand candidates in all 18 constituencies- and not get involved in a pro-remain pact - has paid off.

Not only have they taken North Down with Stephen Farry's win, but in East Antrim and Lagan Valley - two DUP strongholds - they are running a closer race than expected and the DUP vote looks to be down.

“A very good night,” an Alliance source tells me, also indicating they could be playing for third spot in South Down.

Alliance went into this election hoping to re-take East Belfast but are now hopeful for entirely different reasons.

They are privately conceding they are unlikely to defeat DUP’s Gavin Robinson, but I’m also hearing it will be closer this time than two years ago.

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Stephen Farry has been elected as the MP for North Down, beating the DUP's Alex Easton by 2,968 votes.

The Alliance Party overturned a 1,208 vote majority to take the seat formerly held by independent unionist Lady Hermon.

Alan Chambers of the Ulster Unionist Party came third and Conservative Matthew Robinson came fourth.

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Voter turnout was down by 0.3 percentage points since the last general election.

Nearly 41,000 people, 60.6% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

One of the four candidates, Matthew Robinson (Conservative) lost his £500 deposit after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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