Sinn Fein made it a perfect 18/18 clean sweep of candidates-to-councillors in Derry City and Strabane council to claim their best ever result with several historic firsts recorded.
It was a difficult election for the smaller parties with Alliance duo Rachael Ferguson and Stephen McKinney, the party's first elected politicians in Derry in decades, both losing the seats they won last time around in 2019, Aontu losing their sole seat and People Before Profit dropping down to just one.
The SDLP fell from 11 seats to 10, the DUP from seven to five, while the UUP won two, and the independents Gary Donnelly, Paul Gallagher and Raymond Barr were elected.
Read more: NI Council Election: Mid Ulster results in full
