Summary

  • Northern Ireland has three women MEPs for the first time

  • Diane Dodds, DUP, was the first to be declared elected

  • Alliance's Naomi Long and Sinn Féin's Martina Anderson were both elected after five rounds of counting

  • Eleven candidates competed for NI's three seats in the European Parliament

  • DUP, Sinn Féin and UUP took NI seats at last European election in 2014

  • Voters went to polls on Thursday - 1,278,951 were eligible to vote

  • Turnout was just more than 45% - down 6% on 2014's poll

Live Reporting

  1. 'A self-inflicted failure' of unionism

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  2. A game of European election 'Guess Who'

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  3. First past the postal vote?

    Speaking on Talkback, Michelle Gildernew, MP for Sinn Féin, said that the party is hopeful that Martina Anderson is re-elected to her seat in Europe.

    But when asked whether Ms Anderson would be returned in the first count, she said that they are "down 10,000 postal votes" because of the demand of running two elections.

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    BBC News NI recently reported that there were significantly fewer applications for postal and proxy votes in Northern Ireland for the European elections than for the council elections.

    During the last European Election in 2014, around 13,782 postal votes were cast.

  4. Early observations from the count centre

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  5. We could have first results in a couple of hours

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  6. Gains for Brexit Party and Lib Dems

    With almost all the results from the rest of the UK now in , it's been a bad election for both Labour and the Conservatives.Both parties have lost MEPs to the Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats, and the Green Party are ahead of the Tories overall.

    UK election results

    Overall, out of 64 MEPs declared so far, Mr Farage's party has won 28, the Lib Dems 15, Labour 10, Greens seven, the Tories three and Plaid Cymru one. Scotland has yet to officially declare but the SNP looks set to win three seats.

  7. Here's how you can follow the results

    As well as this live page, BBC News NI will cover the results and reaction on the website and on our Facebook and Twitter.

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    Television coverage will be on BBC One Northern Ireland at 15:45 on Monday and on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 20:00.

    There will also be coverage on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme from 12:00 on Monday and on Evening Extra at 17:00.

  8. Crowds descend on Magherafelt

    The Meadowbank sports centre in Magherafelt, County Londonderry is now temporary home to all the votes cast across Northern Ireland on Thursday.

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  9. The results from last time (2014)

    Results from 2014 European elections

  10. Good afternoon and welcome

    Welcome to BBC News NI's live page coverage of the 2019 European election. We will be bringing you all the results and reaction until the last vote is counted.

    Counting

    Voters went to the polls on Thursday to decide who would represent them at the European Paliament and counting began at 08:00 this morning in Magherafelt, County Londonderry.