May 7, 2022 · With almost all votes counted from Thursday's local U.K. election, Sinn Fein secured 27 of the Assembly's 90 seats. The Democratic Unionist Party, which has dominated Northern Ireland's...

May 21, 2023 · Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has made sweeping gains in Northern Ireland’s local elections. The party repeated its success from last year’s assembly elections. The vote counting in the local election was completed late Saturday. Sinn Fein took 144 of 462 local government seats.

May 8, 2022 · Sinn Fein overtook the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in voting for the province’s 90-member national Assembly, winning the most seats, 27, and securing the highest share of first preference...

May 7, 2022 · BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, which seeks unification with Ireland, hailed a “new era” Saturday for Northern Ireland as it captured the largest number...

Sinn Féin is the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, having won the largest share of first-preference votes and the most seats in the 2022 election, the first time an Irish nationalist party has done so. [21] [22] Since 2024, Michelle O'Neill has served as the first ever Irish nationalist First Minister of Northern Ireland. [23]

Jul 5, 2024 · Sinn Féin cruised to a string of often lopsided victories Friday as it easily defended its seven parliamentary seats. It even came within 179 votes of gaining another from the main pro-British party, the Democratic Unionists, who saw their own support slump in post-Brexit disarray to a quarter-century low.

May 7, 2022 · The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, which seeks unification with Ireland, hailed a "new era" on Saturday for Northern Ireland as it captured the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland...

May 21, 2023 · Sinn Féin dominates council elections as Irish nationalists, irritated by Democratic Unionist sabotage of power-sharing, back the Irish unity party in record numbers. DUBLIN — Sinn Féin has scaled new electoral heights in Northern Ireland.

Sinn Fein has won Ireland’s election, according to exit polls on Friday night, but looks certain to be shut out of power by its rivals after failing to get enough votes to enter government...

May 8, 2022 · Sinn Fein has become the first nationalist party to win the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly in its 101-year history. Voters flocked to the polls to elect 90 new members of the Legislative Assembly, with Sinn Fein winning a lion's share of the seats.