Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Fein leader, has taken her party to within a whisker of the Democratic Unionist Party in terms of seats and share of the vote NIALL CARSON/PASinn Fein was the biggest winner in the snap Northern Ireland elections, closing the gap with the Democratic Unionist Party to just one seat. The DUP remains the largest party at Stormont with 28 of the 90 seats while Sinn Fein has 27. The nationalist SDLP took 12 seats, replacing the Ulster Unionist Party, which won ten, as the the third largest party. The Alliance Party won eight seats and the Green Party two while the Traditional Unionist Voice, the People Before Profit Alliance and an independent unionist each won one seat. Mike Nesbitt, the UUP leader who had predicted big gains for his party, announced his resignation after…

Source: The Times March 04, 2017 08:15 UTC