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Three candidates have been elected in Northern Ireland in the election for the European Parliament under a system of Single Transferrable Vote.

Northern Ireland's final election result
Candidate	Party	Status	Stage
Allister, J	DUP	Elected	1
De Brun, B	SF	Elected	1
Nicholson, J	UUP	Elected	3

Details of the three stages of counting follow below:

Stage 1
Candidate	Party	1st Prefs	%	+/-	Status
Allister, J	DUP	175,761	31.9	+3.6	Elected
De Brun, B	SF	144,541	26.3	+8.98	Elected
Nicholson, J	UUP	91,164	16.6	-1.01
Morgan, M	SDLP	87,559	15.9	-12.1
Gilliland, J	Ind	36,270	6.6
McCann, E	SEA	9,172	1.6
Whitcroft, L	Greens	4,810	0.9
Quota: 137,320

The DUP's Jim Allister and Sinn Fein's Bairbre de Brun were elected at the first stage. The total valid vote was 549,277 and the total poll was 554,744. There were 5,467 spoiled votes.

Stage 2
Distribution of Jim Allister's surplus votes
Candidate	Party	+ Transfers	New Total	Status
Nicholson, J	UUP	33,482	124,646
Morgan, M	SDLP	450	88,010
Gilliland, J	Ind	3,119	39,390	Eliminated
McCann, E	SEA	96	9,268	Eliminated
Whitcroft, L	Greens	324	5,134	Eliminated
Allister surplus: 38,441 / Non-transferrable votes: 967

John Gilliland, Eamonn McCann and Lindsay Whitcroft were eliminated at the second stage. Transfers from these three candidates were distributed between Jim Nicholson and Martin Morgan.

Stage 3
Distribution of Gilliland, McCann and Whitcroft's transfers
Candidate	Party	+ Transfers	New Total	Status
Nicholson, J	UUP	22,412	147,058	Elected
Morgan, M	SDLP	20,522	108,531	Eliminated

Jim Nicholson elected at the third stage, having exceeded the quota.

Key to parties:
DUP - Democratic Unionist Party
Greens - Green Party
Ind - Independent
SDLP - Social Democratic and Labour Party
SEA - Socialist Environmental Alliance
SF - Sinn Fein
UUP - Ulster Unionist Party

	CANDIDATES ELECTED	PARTY
	John Hume	SDLP
	JimNicholson	UUP
	Ian Paisley	DUP

	PARTY	VOTE %	MEPs
	Democratic Unionist Party	28.4	1
	SDLP	28.1	1
	Ulster Unionist Party	17.6	1
	Sinn F�in	17.3
	Progressive Unionist Party	3.3
	United Kingdom Unionist Party	2.9
	Alliance Party	2.1
	Natural Law Party	0.2