ELECTION 2022: Lagan Valley – Double joy for Alliance as all five winners unveiled
![PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 6/5/2022: The Alliance Party's Sorcha Eastwood celebrates being elected for the Lagan Valley constituency at the Jordanstown count with the party's MP, Stephen Farry.
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![PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 6/5/2022: The Alliance Party's Sorcha Eastwood celebrates being elected for the Lagan Valley constituency at the Jordanstown count with the party's MP, Stephen Farry.
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Counting has gone right down to the wire, with workers in Ulster University Jordanstown combing through vote transfers until well into the early hours.
The victors are - in the order they were announced - Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP); Robbie Butler (UUP); Sorcha Eastwood (Alliance), Paul Givan (DUP), and David Honeyford (Alliance).
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Hide AdThe previous make-up of the seat was two DUP (Givan and Edwin Poots), one UUP (Butler), one Alliance (Trevor Lunn) and one SDLP (Catney).
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Their first-preference vote shares are as follows:
Donaldson: 12,626
Butler: 8,242
Eastwood: 8,211
Givan: 5,062
Honeyford: 4,183
More details, videos and analysis will be uploaded in the morning.
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