Sinn Fein look set for a historic victory in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, after receiving the most first-preference votes.
The party’s vice president Michelle O’Neill was elected on the first count in Mid Ulster, with Alliance leader Naomi Long topping the poll in East Belfast.He said he was delighted with his party’s performance in Lagan Valley, adding that it was too early to comment on the overall picture to say what the final outcome might be.
She received 10,845 first preference votes and the result was greeted by large cheers in the count centre. She said that Sinn Fein wanted to ‘together work in partnership with others’, adding: ‘That is the only way we will achieve much, much more for people here, whether in terms of the cost-of-living crisis or trying to fix our health service.’Ms Long, speaking in Belfast, dedicated her victory to her father-in-law.
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