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| Diane Dodds, DUP, re-elected as MEP | Diane Dodds, DUP, re-elected as MEP |
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| The Democratic Unionist Party's Diane Dodds has been re-elected as a Member of the European Parliament. | |
| She reached the quota on the seventh round of the count after getting transfers from the TUV's Jim Allister. | |
| On Monday, Sinn Féin's Martina Anderson retained her MEP seat after topping the poll in the European elections. | On Monday, Sinn Féin's Martina Anderson retained her MEP seat after topping the poll in the European elections. |
| The third seat in Northern Ireland's constituency has yet to be decided. It is between Jim Nicholson of the Ulster Unionist Party and Alex Attwood, SDLP. | The third seat in Northern Ireland's constituency has yet to be decided. It is between Jim Nicholson of the Ulster Unionist Party and Alex Attwood, SDLP. |
| Counting began on Monday at the King's Hall in Belfast and was suspended at 00:40 BST on Tuesday after almost 16 hours. | |
| It took just over nine hours for the first preference votes to be confirmed. | |
| Martina Anderson took just over a quarter of the vote, with 159,813 first preferences. | |
| Counting resumed on Tuesday at 09:00 BST and by 15:45 BST Anna Lo of Alliance and Jim Allister of the TUV had been eliminated. | |
| Ten candidates had been competing for the three seats in Europe. |