Summary

  • DUP marginally largest party by one seat

  • Sinn Féin has increased its vote, taking 27 seats

  • Biggest casualty is UUP leader Mike Nesbitt who announces resignation

  • Turnout is the highest in assembly poll since the vote which followed the 1998 Good Friday Agreement

  • Overall turnout is 64.8% - up from 54.9% last year

Live Reporting

  1. Welcome to the results - #AE17

    Hello and welcome to BBC News NI's live coverage of the results from the Northern Ireland Assembly election 2017. 

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    We'll be here right up until counting stops for the day (most likely in the early hours of tomorrow morning) and we'll pick up again tomorrow at 09:00.