Northern Assembly Election Results 2017 - A Good Day For Ireland

At 64.8% turnout. the highest since the first election to the northern assembly in 1998, after its establishment under the Good Friday Agreement. The results of the ninety seats being contested were as follows:

28 - Democratic Unionist Party

27 - Sinn Féin

12 - Social Democratic and Labour Party

10 - Ulster Unionist Party

8 - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

2 - Green Party

1 - People Before Profit Alliance

1 - Traditional Unionist Voice

1 - Independent unionist

This represents a breakthrough for the nationalist cause in the north of Ireland and a step nearer to the day when Ireland will once again be united. Northern Ireland, created in 1921 when Ireland was partitioned, has no history of being an independent country or of being a nation in its own right. It has never been other than a British colony in the north-east of the island of Ireland.

Although these results do not yet break the unionist hold on this part of Ireland, they are undoubtedly a step in the right direction, with the figures being 40 - Unionist, 39 - Nationalist and 11 - Other.