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European election 2009

Northern Ireland elects three MEPs using the system of Single Transferrable Vote.

NORTHERN IRELAND'S FINAL ELECTION RESULT

SEATS: 3TURNOUT: 488,891ELECTORATE: 1,141,979
Candidate	Party	Status	Stage
Bairbre de Br�n	SF	Elected	1
Jim Nicholson	UCUNF	Elected	3
Diane Dodds	DUP	Elected	3

STAGE 1
Candidate	Party	1st Prefs	%	+/-	Status
Steven Agnew	GRN	15,764	3.3%	+2.4%	Eliminated
Jim Allister	TUV	66,197	13.7%	-
Bairbre de Brún	SF	126,184	26%	-0.3%	Elected
Diane Dodds	DUP	88,346	18.2%	-13.8%
Alban Maginness	SDLP	78,489	16.2%	+0.3%
Jim Nicholson	UCUNF	82,893	17.1%	+0.5%
Ian James Parsley	AP	26,699	5.5%	-	Eliminated

Total valid votes: 484,572

Electoral quota: 121,144

STAGE 2
Distribution of Agnew and Parsley surplus votes
Candidate	Party	+ Transfers	New Total	Status
Alban Maginness	SDLP	16,325	94,814
Jim Nicholson	UCUNF	11,392	94,285
Diane Dodds	DUP	2,914	91,260
Jim Allister	TUV	4,284	70,481	Eliminated

Non transferable votes: 7,548

STAGE 3
Distribution of Allister transfers
Candidate	Party	+ Transfers	New Total	Status
Jim Nicholson	UCUNF	37,942	132,227	Elected
Diane Dodds	DUP	24,462	115,722	Elected
Alban Maginness	SDLP	2,614	97,428

Key to parties:

AP: Alliance Party

DUP: Democratic Unionist Party

GRN: Green Party

SF: Sinn Fein

SDLP: Social Democratic and Labour Party

TUV: Traditional Unionist Voice

UCUNF: Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force

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EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS

Party	Votes		MEPs
Party	%	+/- %	Total	+/-
CON	27.7	1.0	*26	1
UKIP	16.5	0.3	13	1
LAB	15.7	-6.9	13	-5
LD	13.7	-1.2	11	1
GRN	8.6	2.4	2	0
BNP	6.2	1.3	2	2
SNP	2.1	0.7	2	0
PC	0.8	-0.1	1	0
OTH	8.5	2.4	0	0
SF	–	–	1	0
DUP	–	–	1	0
72 of 72 seats declared. Vote share figures exclude Northern Ireland as it has a separate electoral system to the rest of the UK
* Includes UCUNF MEP elected in Northern Ireland