Sinn Féin wins byelection in record low turnout

SINN FÉIN Assembly member Paul Maskey has been returned as the new MP for West Belfast, but on a record low turnout for a Northern Ireland parliamentary election.

Mr Maskey took the seat with 16,211 votes or 70.6 per cent of the poll. He was well ahead of his nearest rival, the SDLP Minister for the Environment Alex Attwood, who won 3,088 votes, 13.5 per cent of the poll.

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