David Mundell

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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon was in the cheerful mood as she arrived at the Glasgow count

The SNP has promised great gains in Scotland , Nicola Sturgeon , the country had sent a "clear Message " on a second referendum on independence.

The Party has 48 seats after securing 45% of the vote - 8. 1% More Than at The Last election to the Bundestag in 2017, when it's 35 seats.

The SNP in East Dunbartonshire.

Ms Sturgeon said the result had exceeded their expectations.

a win, The Conservatives six seats, the Liberal Democrats four and work.

Neale Hanvey, will be counted as a SNP gain from labour, because he was on the ballot as an SNP candidate.

Mr Hanvey had been suspended by The Party over allegations that he made anti-Semitic posts on Social Media , and as an independent MP.

Scotland

After 59 59 seats

SNP-48 +13 CON 6 -7 LD 4 +0 LAB 1 -6

The Conservatives and Prime Minister , Boris Johnson , after taking a string of former Labour strongholds in England and Wales.

head of the Labour Party , Jeremy Corbyn said it was a "very disappointing night for the Labour Party " and confirmed that he would not lead The Party into the next election.

The Other important developments, the Scottish Election Night :

Scotland -vote-free

After 59 59 seats

Party % - proportion of SNP-45. 0% CON 25. 1% LAB 18. 6%, LD 9. 5% GRN 1. 0% BRX 0. 5% of Scotland 's vote Share change since 2017

After 59 59 seats

Lost Won, SNP +8. 1 LD +2. 8 GRN +0. 8 BRX +0. 5 CON -3. 5 LAB -8. 5

Ms sturgeon, the Scottish Prime Minister , had already promised to send a letter to the Prime Minister before Christmas, requested that Holyrood be given the strength to keep indyref2.

in his speech at the Glasgow count, said she would not claim that everyone who voted for their party the support of the independence.

But She Said it was supposed to get a "clear confirmation of Scotland to decide our future, and you don't have to decided you have for us".

Ms sturgeon added: "Scotland has a very clear Message - we don't want a Boris Johnson -government, we do not want to leave the EU.

"the Results are above the rest of the UK is bleak, But underlines the importance of Scotland to have a choice.

"Boris Johnson has the order to take England out of the EU, But he must accept that I can give a mandate, in Scotland , the decision for an alternative future. "

Nicola Sturgeon says she does not want to claim that every single person who supports the SNP chosen necessarily independence. But you will insist, the result of a boom-boom-confirmation of your call for a second referendum.

you will be issued an official request in the next few days, the legal powers to an independence vote.

And we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a lot of debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic decision of the Scottish voters.

It is a debate that will escalate only when we leave the EU and the can. a fuel support for independence itself

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack , the hero of Dumfries and Galloway for the Conservatives, said that more people vote for unionist parties in Scotland than the SNP.

And he was adamant that the Prime Minister should continue to be calls for the block-Ms interference the in order to keep The Power , an independence ballot.

The Conservative votes were, the of 3. like 5% to 25. 1% in Scotland , while the Labour vote, there was a decline of 8. 5% to 18. 6%. The Liberal Democrats ' vote actually increased by 2. 8% 9. 5% despite the losses of The Party leader.

Rutherglen and Hamilton West was The First Scottish electorate, the result at 01:25, with Margaret Ferrier - who is the fit between 2015 and 2017 - polling-23,775 votes was previously, by Killing a majority of the 5,230 about your work rivals Ged.

The early success was quickly followed by the SNP, David Doogan to defeat Conservative Kirstene Hair in Angus.

John Nicolson won the Ochil and South Perthshire seat after defeating Luke Graham by the Conservatives, while the SNP Midlothian Labour also won back to Danielle Rowley ,

The SNP's Mhairi Black is comfortable holding Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat with a greatly increased majority, while Kenny Macaskill , the former Scottish justice Minister, won The East Lothian seat of the work.

SNP MEP Alyn Smith has won Stirling by Stephen Kerr of the Conservatives, But the Scottish Secretary, Alistair Jack held Dumfries and Galloway for the Tories.

Douglas Ross also held his Moray seat for the Conservatives, while his colleague David Mundell held Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.

The SNP Stephen Gethins lost 1,316 votes Wendy Chamberlain of the Liberal Democrats in Fife North East. Mr Gethins had won the seat by only two votes in 2017.

And the work of Ian Murray held in Edinburgh South, i.e., he is The Party 's only MP in Scotland .

Mr Murray, a longtime critic of Mr Corbyn warned that his party, the ideology needs to change, otherwise it will "die" and said the voters he spoke to the door-to-door during this campaign do not see, Mr Corbyn as Prime Minister and could not work as a credible alternative government.

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The SNP are Once Again the undisputed winner of The Night , where a whole row of seats, the skin of their opponents, including a large head in the form of Lib dem leader Jo Swinson .

The Party had not yet your own path, run up against Tory resistance in a couple of places, and will lose the North East Fife to the Lib Dems - But Nicola Sturgeon 's team have piled up thousands of votes in every seat already secured a landslide.

the work, are now collapsed over Scotland , with their vote Share down sharply. You have lost even The Shadow Scottish secretary, Lesley Laird , a candidate rejected by the SNP and who is as regardless.

The Conservatives have the victory UK-wide, But have lost a clutch of Scottish seats, the SNP, and you may be asking yourself, what does this mean for their campaign to "stop indyref2".

The Lib-dem vote Share is, in most places, But any progress will be massively overshadowed by the loss of Ms. Swinson. The Party is the leader, just from touting himself as a future Minister to lose a President of their court for the second time in four years.

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Source of news: bbc.com