The jury reached their verdict after five hours and 50 minutes
of deliberations.
Some of the jury were in tears as the verdicts were read to a packed courtroom.
"You may leave the dock Mr Bain," Justice Graham Panckhurst David Bain.
SHOOT: While the jury's task was to convict David Bain on condition that there was not reasonable doubt, of course there was some reasonable doubt. But given the facts of the case, including blood stains of his family members on his clothes (but not his father's) you'd expect the jury to be discerning enough to say - "There's some doubt, but not enough to infer (using logic) that David didn't do it."
Once again, if David is innocent, why would his father feel he had deserved the right to live, but not his younger brother or any of his sisters. And if he had committed incest with his daughter, why allow David to live to talk about it? These subtleties form the core of the case.
A tearful Bain earlier hugged a female juror outside the High Court as 1000 supporters and onlookers cheered his acquittal for the murders of his family.
Then, his arm around supporter Joe Karam, Bain spoke to supporters and media as news of the not guilty verdicts reverberated around the country.
Mr Karam spoke bluntly of the "evil I have had to fight" to clear Bain of the 1994 murders.
"What has mattered, what has really mattered is that the truth has finally fallen where it has always been," Mr Karam said.
"Everything against David was smoke and no fire."
Later he told TV3 the jury's decision was "a huge weight off my shoulders".
Detective Superintendent Malcolm Burgess made no apologies for bringing the case against Mr Bain.
"This is the end of the matter, as far as I'm concerned," he said.
He said the police would be "reflecting" on today's verdicts.
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