A Sinn Fein triumph in the Stormont Assembly election 2022 means it is now the biggest party in Northern Ireland for the first time.
Both the DUP and Sinn Fein were vying to be the largest party after the election, which comes with the entitlement to nominate the next first minister.
The final result has been a fight between the two parties to lose the fewest seats and thus emerge as the biggest.
