Northern Ireland

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Ulster Unionist Robin Swann comfortably regains South Antrim seat party lost in 2017

DUP’s Paul Girvan trails Swann by a margin of 7,512 votes amid an overall poor election peformance by the DUP

Starmer win offers Anglo-Irish relations ‘reset’

Labour is preparing for power after the UK election saw the Tories swept out of office while in Dublin, officials are hoping for improved relations with our neighbour

Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard wins by comfortable margin in South Down

SDLP’s Colin McGrath came in second with DUP candidate Diane Forsythe in third

DUP’s Sammy Wilson retains East Antrim seat but suffers cut in personal vote

UK election: Wilson uses victory speech to tell other unionist parties those who ‘split’ the unionist vote should be ‘ashamed’

Jim Shannon’s Strangford win one of few highlights for the DUP

Alliance may wonder what could have been if they had run a higher-profile candidate

SDLP’s Claire Hanna re-elected in renamed Belfast South & Mid Down constituency

UK election: Strong personal vote sees Hanna securing 49 per cent of the vote and 21,345 votes

Sinn Féin’s Paul Maskey retains the safest of seats in Belfast West

Vote share dropped for the re-elected MP but was still comfortably above 50 per cent

Sinn Féin’s Dáire Hughes takes Newry and Armagh seat with ease

Party’s deputy general secretary gained 2,012 votes from than departing MP Mickey Brady

Sinn Féin’s Pat Cullen secures decisive win over UUP in Fermanagh & South Tyrone

UUP’s Diana Armstrong trails former head of the Royal College of Nursing by more than 4,000 votes

Sinn Féin’s John Finucane comfortably retains seat in Belfast North

Finucane increased his majority to 5,612 with his closest challenger being the DUP MLA Philip Brett

Gavin Robinson holds off Naomi Long to retain DUP seat in East Belfast

Constituency had been billed as the battle of the election with some anticipating a split in the unionist vote

DUP’s Gregory Campbell retains seat but Sinn Féin make big gains in East Derry

Kathleen McGurk was just 179 votes from taking the seat in a constituency that has been a unionist stronghold since its creation

‘Political earthquake’ as TUV’s Jim Allister overthrows Paisley dynasty in North Antrim

Ian Paisley jnr's loss of what was seen as safest DUP seat is the biggest general election shock in Northern Ireland

DUP’s Carla Lockhart increases vote despite Upper Bann boundary changes

Northern Ireland election results: DUP’s only female MP maintained her seat with Sinn Féin’s Catherine Nelson coming in second

Independent unionist Alex Easton secures ‘wow’ moment in North Down

Alliance’s sitting MP Stephen Farry lost out as DUP and TUV stood aside to secure unionist seat

Alliance’s Sorcha Eastwood becomes first non-unionist to win Lagan Valley constituency

UK election results: Alliance MLA defeats DUP candidate in seat once held by former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson

Northern Ireland voters go to the polls in general election with several constituencies hotly contested

Sinn Féin is seeking to cement its position as the largest party after securing most seats in recent Assembly and local council polls

Unionism has welcomed Labour’s apparently inevitable win, but nationalists are already milking it

The next UK government’s spending policy could lead to a boon for Stormont parties thanks to the oddities of devolutionary accounting

Jeffrey Donaldson sent for trial on sex offence charges

Former DUP leader attended hearing at Newry Magistrates’ Court

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