DUP wins 10 seats with Sinn Fein taking 7; independent Sylvia Hermon retains seat
SDLP loses all its three seats; UUP loses South Antrim to DUP
109 candidates contested 18 Westminster seats
Turnout was up across the board; 1.2m people were eligible to vote in NI
Exit poll predicts Conservatives largest party, but short of parliamentary majority
So far, 15 constituencies have declared their winners. The SDLP and UUP are yet to win a seat. There are three more constituencies to go.
Image source, Press EyeThey are - Fermanagh and South Tyrone; Newry and Armagh; and West Tyrone.
A 9th MP for the DUP has been confirmed.
Ousted SDLP MP Alasdair McDonnell expresses sympathy for party colleagues Margaret Ritchie and Mark Durkan - both of whom have been defeated by Sinn Fein candidates.
"Neither of them are being replaced by people who are going to do anything," he says
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Mr McDonnell says its farcical for South Down to think that by electing an absentionist MP "they will gain benefit from it".
Margaret Ritchie has lost her seat in South Down to Sinn Fein's Chris Hazzard. The former SDLP leader had been an MP for the area since 2010.
She says: "The result tonight was not one we hoped for, but I and my colleagues have helped many, many people in this constituency and in that respect I can hold my head high."
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Emma Little-Pengelly has taken the Belfast South seat from the SDLP's Allisdair McDonnell.
Sinn Féin candidate Francie Molloy is returned in Mid Ulster.
The newly elected Sinn Féin MP for Foyle, Elisha McCallion, says she's delighted.
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She says it has been an extremely successful day for Sinn Féin, and that her party will be focusing its energy on the Dáil and on Brussels.
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Sinn Féin's Elisha McCallion takes Foyle from the SDLP
Sinn Féin's Chris Hazzard takes the seat from the SDLP's Margaret Ritchie.
Nigel Dodds becomes the next DUP incumbent to hold onto their seat.
Ian Paisley has regained his North Antrim seat for the DUP with a massive 28,521 votes.
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Defeated Foyle MP Mark Durkan says "I cannot tell a lie - I can't say that it doesn't hurt.
"But I want to congratulate Elisha McCallion and to agree with her, that representing the people in this city is a privilege and it's one that I've enjoyed for the last 12 years," says the former SDLP leader.
"I want to apologise to John and Pat Hume if any shortcomings on my part, or the part of any of us, have led to any sense of there being a dent in the truth for which they endeavoured and indeed the truth of their endeavours.
"Their achievements and contributions to this city are not diminished by our result."
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The SDLP's Alasdair McDonnell has told BBC NI's Kevin Magee that he has lost his South Belfast seat.
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Indications are that South Belfast will be taken by the DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly.
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Gavin Robinson has held onto his seat in Belfast East. He beat off competition from Alliance leader Naomi Long.
