European election 2009

• National result
• East Midlands
• East of England
• London
• North East
• North West
• Northern Ireland
• Scotland
• South East
• South West
• Wales
• West Midlands
• Yorkshire and the Humber

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

NORTHERN IRELAND'S FINAL ELECTION RESULT

SEATS: 3 TURNOUT: 488,891 ELECTORATE: 1,141,979

Candidate	Party	Status	Stage
Bairbre de Brún	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