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Sinn Fein's Martina Anderson has topped the poll in the European | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
She polled 159,000 first preference votes. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
That's more than 3,000 votes over the quota. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
The announcement of the first preference vote share | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
was made at the counting centre at the King's Hall in Belfast | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
The number of first preference votes given for each candidate was as | :00:36. | :00:52. | |
follows. Jim Allister, TUV, 75,800 and six votes. -- 75,806. Martina | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
Anderson, Sinn Fein, 159,000. 159, 813 thousand. -- hundred | :01:03. | :01:45. | |
59,813. Alex, SDLP, it is 1594. -- Alex Attwood, SDLP. Mark | :01:46. | :02:00. | |
Brotherston, NI conservatives, 4144. Ross Brown, Green Party, 10,598. | :02:01. | :02:12. | |
Diane Dodds, Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, 131,000... | :02:13. | :03:06. | |
131,163 votes. Anna Lo, Alliance Party, 44,432. Tina McKenzie, Aspire | :03:07. | :03:40. | |
To Better, 5,000 five -- 1553. Jim Nicholson, Ulster Unionist Party, | :03:41. | :04:05. | |
83,438. Henry Reilly, UKIP, 24,584 votes. Martina Anderson has reached | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
the quota and is deemed elected. It has taken just over nine | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
hours for the first preference BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson has been | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
watching the day's events unfold. His report contains some | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
flash photography. The celebrations began before all | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
the votes had been counted. The official result had been -- and | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
before the result had been announced. We are delighted with the | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
level of very strong support, right across Northern Ireland. We have had | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
a good campaign where we were in every part of Northern Ireland. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Absolutely delighted and honoured at the number of people who have voted | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
for myself and Sinn Fein. This is a truly historic day for our party. | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
It was a long day for all of the political parties. For some, and | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
anxious day. Almost ten hours of counting the votes and it's not over | :05:14. | :05:24. | |
yet. At the weekend, the TUV councillor became the party's first | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
elected in Belfast. She made strong remarks three years ago. She wasn't | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
an elected representative, she was barely out of school. You accept | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
that her comments were foolish? barely out of school. You accept | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
a M I think many of us have made foolish comment at various times. | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
The leader of NI21, Basil McCrea, didn't want to talk about his | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
political future. I cannot say anything because I am | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
instigating legal action. My lawyers have told me not to speak. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
It was a time of bitter and heated election campaigns, but it ended | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
with a smile. Let's go to the Belfast central | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
count centre for this election to Europe and join Mark Devenport, | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
our Political Editor. How do you read | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
the first preference figures? Sinn Fein will be very satisfied as | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
the Paul Toppers, although in terms of share it is marginally down on | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
the situation in 20 -- 2009. -- the top of the polls. They have | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
recovered some of the ground that they lost to Jim Allister. Both the | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
SDLP and UUP have actually decreased as a percentage share. The Ulster | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Unionists will be able to satisfy themselves that they would probably | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
get that third seat. That third seat probably won't be in peril. Most Jim | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Allister's vote has decreased in terms of share, he will be very | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
satisfied with 75,000 votes. You will be able to wield a greater | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
influence in Stormont. Do you think it's a done deal that the MEPs who | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
are existing will get it? I'm pretty convinced that when you look at the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
number of votes, there are more people who could give transfers to | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Jim Nicholson bank would give transfers to Alex Attwood. I think | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Jim Nicholson will get that third seat. But it might be a long evening | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
of eliminations and transfers before we get to that point. We waited a | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
long time for the first preference votes. When do you think the total | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
count will reach a conclusion? I could not even hazard a guess. We | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
could be going late into the night, I would have thought. Thank you. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
The biggest loser in both elections in the Republic has been Labour and | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
that's led to the party leader Eamon Gilmore announcing his resignation. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
He will stay on as Tanaiste until a successor is appointed. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Our Dublin Correspondent Shane Harrison has more on this. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
Donna, three years ago he led the Labour Party to its greatest general | :08:10. | :08:23. | |
election triumph with a 19% share of the vote. He went into a coalition | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
with the Niguel and implemented a bailout programme designed to save | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
the Republic from bankruptcy. -- with singer Gayle. In this year's | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
European elections, Labour's share of the vote fell to just 7%. Eamon | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Gilmore announced his resignation saying he deeply regretted the loss | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
of so many Labour representatives. Where we have had successes, | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
of so many Labour representatives. be glad. Where we have fallen short, | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
we mustn't doubt. Where new problems are rising, we must find solutions. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
We must and we will continue to build the country -- puts the | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
country and the needs of the Irish people first. We must here, he'd and | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
act on the clear message we received on Friday. -- keyed. If the Labour | :09:16. | :09:28. | |
position leaves the coalition on shaky ground, where does that leave | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Sinn Fein? It will probably become more Independent and assertive in | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
government. The reality is, the Republic's finances are such that 2 | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
billion euros needs to be taken out of the economy in this year's | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
budget. That requires further taxation and public spending cuts. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Sinn Fein will hoover up its vote as it has in this year's European | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
elections. Labour is on course to take a seat in each of the three | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
European consistencies -- constituencies in the Republic. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
The gardai have arrested five men over the discovery of a bomb. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Yes, they arrested the men north of Dundalk in County Louth late last | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
night. They are said to be known in dissident republicans. They found a | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
cage inside a car containing bomb component parts. That bomb was | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
believed to be brave -- being brought into Northern Ireland. | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Thank you. A man has appeared | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
in court charged with threatening to kill a man during an alleged racist | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
attack near Lisburn. Appearing at the city's | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Magistrates Court was 22-year-old Thomas David Finn, from Linencourt, | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
Linenhall Street in Armagh. He is alleged to have attacked | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
his victim, who is black, along the He is also charged with having | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
a stick with intent He was remanded in custody and | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
is due in court again next week. Some heavy downpours today and we | :10:53. | :11:16. | |
can expect some more in the evening. The Met office has issued a weather | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
warning for it showers will stop mainly across Fermanagh and Tyrone. | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
Tonight, it is going to turn dry for us all. Temperatures around eight or | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
9 degrees. Some mist and cloud for tomorrow morning, so a murky start. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
The cloud will stay with us but there will be some brighter spells. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
It's going to be a much better outlook than today with fewer | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
showers. That fog lifting slowly and the cloud remaining stub to break | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
up. Into the afternoon, there will be some brighter weather. It's a | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
decent picture across Ireland. Plenty of dry weather to enjoy. In | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
England and many areas of Wales, we have more rain to come and some of | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
that will be heavy. Scattered showers for western Scotland, | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
brighter and sunnier towards the east. Temperatures will be around | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
the need to high teens for us all. In Northern Ireland, a few showers | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
out there tomorrow afternoon. Towards the West, 18 degrees in | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
Fermanagh. A bit on the cooler side on the coast. On Wednesday, staying | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
fairly unsettled. It won't be raining all day, there will be dry | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
weather, but feeling a bit cooler. For the rest of the week, it will | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
stay unsettled. can also keep in contact with | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
us via Facebook and Twitter. | :12:46. | :12:50. |