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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. No candidates have reached quota at stage 3

    Mid Ulster

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  2. It was third count lucky

    Foyle

    Colum Eastwood is elected in Foyle on the third count with a total of 7,595 votes.

    Colum Eastwood

    His running-mate, Mark H. Durkan, is now about 400 votes short of the quota.

  3. SDLP leader re-elected

    Foyle

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  4. Never too late for chocolate

    We've had the fish and chips, we've had the tea and sandwiches... now it's time for the big guns.

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  5. State of play

    Wth 35 of 90 seats now filled - here's where we are:

    Sinn Féin  -  16

    DUP - 9

    Alliance - 4 

    UUP - 3  

    SDLP - 2

    People Before Profit - 1

    The DUP had most first preference votes, 28.1%, compared to Sinn Fein's 27.9%.

    Results podium at the main Belfast count centre during NI Assembly election 2017 PA

  6. Former SDLP MLA Gerry Mullan eliminated

    East Londonderry

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  7. UPDATE: One down - 17 to go

    Newry and Armagh

    That's your lot in Newry and Armagh - one DUP, three from Sinn Féin and one SDLP.

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  8. 'Coiled springs'

    Fermanagh South Tyrone

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  9. Jonathan Bell eliminated
    Breaking

    Strangford

    Jonathan Bell

  10. 'Shloer will be flowing'

    Former journalist turned Stormont press secretary David Gordon gives a brief synopsis of how it's going: Sinn Féin is having good day, the SDLP is not, and the Ulster Unionists have done badly, he says.

    David Gordon

    The DUP is not down that much and if the party gets 30 seats, the Shloer would flow at headquarters.

    "The DUP has tightened its grip on unionism," he adds.

  11. Sammy delivers a ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ roll call

    The DUP's Sammy Wilson has said the DUP has held their vote despite, he claims, an "incessant bombardment" over four-months from ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ news programmes.

    What's Sammy's favourite ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News NI programme?

  12. One lump or two?

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  13. Knights of the round table?

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  14. Carroll delighted after his election

    Belfast West

    Gerry Carroll of People Before Profit Alliance has said the party is "very happy" at a "great result" after he was re-elected in West Belfast.

    Gerry Carroll

    "The establishment parties threw everything at us," he added.

  15. 'I topped the poll'

    Strangford

    The DUP's Simon Hamilton says he topped the poll, not Kellie Armstrong from the Alliance Party who was elected first.

    He says he's happy with his party's performance in Strangford and is confident all three DUP candidates will be returned.

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    Simon HamiltonPA

    Though he acknowledged some of his party colleagues, including former Speaker Robin Newton, were vulnerable elsewhere. He put that down to the reduction in number of seats from 108 to 90  

  16. Another MLA for the Ulster Unionists

    South Antrim

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  17. 'Washed away'

    Newry & Armagh

    Veteran Ulster Unionist Danny Kennedy says he is very disappointed, both politically and personally, to lose out on a seat in a constituency which he has represented since 1998.     

    Danny Kennedy at Banbridge count in NI Assembly election 2017 Pacemaker

    Rather philosophically, he says the tide came in and he was washed away. He said this election narrowed and favoured the two big parties.  

  18. Recount requested by SDLP

    Fermanagh South Tyrone

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  19. Latest at stage 5 of count..

    Strangford

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  20. Maskey and Carroll in West Belfast

    West Belfast

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