Scottish Review : The Scottish Results

Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East

Lab hold
A new Labour member here: Gregg McClymont. Another huge Labour majority.

Dumfries and Galloway

Lab hold
In a seat fancied by the Conservatives, there was instead a 4.3% swing to Labour’s Russell Brown.

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

Con hold
Before the election, David Mundell was Scotland’s only Tory MP. He remains Scotland’s only Tory MP. He achieved a 2.6% swing in his favour – one of the few swings against Labour north of the border.

Lib Dem hold
Jo Swinson, one of the youngest MPs, held on unconvincingly with a 2,000 majority, her share of the vote down more than 3%.

Lab hold
John McFall’s old seat. The departure of Sir Fred’s interrogator did not damage the party. His successor Gemma Doyle enjoyed a 5.5% swing from the SNP in a two-horse race.

SNP hold
A solid retention of the seat by Stewart Hosie in a classic marginal. Labour was 1,800 votes light.

Lab hold
Jim McGovern easily saw off the SNP with a small swing in his favour.

Dunfermline and West Fife

Lab hold
Or Lib Dem loss, depending on your point of view. The traditional Labour seat was won by the Lib Dems in a famous by-election. Thomas Docherty recaptured it with ease.

East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow

Lab hold
Michael McCann took just over half the vote, the SNP a distant second.

Lab hold
The de-selection of Anne Moffat seemed to put this seat in jeopardy. Not so: Fiona O’Donnell must have relished her 12,000 majority over the Conservatives. The Lib Dems, second last time, had a terrible result, their share of the vote down by 8% and the party relegated to third place.

Lab hold
One of the Edinburgh seats half-expected to change hands. The new member, Sheila Gilmore, saw the party’s share of the vote increase. In a familiar pattern across Scotland, the SNP pushed the Lib Dems into third place.

Edinburgh North and Leith

Edinburgh South

Lab hold
Early in the night this was mistakenly called for the Lib Dems, but even the party’s no. 5 target seat eluded it. Ian Murray succeeds Nigel Griffiths by the narrowest margin in Scotland – 318.

Edinburgh South West

Lab hold
A comfortable victory for Alistair Darling.

Edinburgh West

Lib Dem hold
A far from confident defence of the seat by new member Michael Crockart. The Lib Dem share of the vote slumped by almost 14% as Labour put in a strong showing to take second place from the Tories.

Na H-Eileanan An Iar

SNP hold
This nationalist stronghold remains in the hands of Angus MacNeil. An independent, Murdo Murray, polled well.

Falkirk

Lab hold
Eric Joyce, the object of much unfavourable publicity over his expenses claims, delivered one of the least impressive Labour victories. There was a big swing to the SNP, but not enough to dislodge him.

Fife North East

Lib Dem hold
It would take a political earthquake to see off Sir Menzies Campbell, but he would not have been happy to see his share of the vote decline by 8%.

Glasgow Central

Lab hold
Anas Sarwar, with 52% of the poll, left the SNP’s Osama Saeed in a remote second place. Last time the Lib Dems were runners-up here.

Glasgow East

Lab hold
Or, if you like, an SNP loss. John Mason took the seat in a shocking by-election reverse for Labour, but Margaret Curran regained it last night with 62% of the vote.

Glasgow North East

Lab hold
Willie Bain, who won Michael Martin’s old seat in last year’s by-election, retained it by a massive majority over the SNP.

Glasgow North West

Lab hold
John Robertson improved his position, the Lib Dems retaining second place with a reduced share of the vote.

Glasgow North

Lab hold
An easy victory for Ann McKechin on an increased share of the vote.

Glasgow South West

Lab hold
Ian Davidson took 62% of the vote with the SNP a long way back. Tommy Sheridan polled 931 votes, 80 more than the British National Party.

Glasgow South

Lab hold
The same pattern as elsewhere in Scotland, the SNP pushing the Lib Dems into third place but 12,000 votes behind Tom Harris.

Glenrothes

Lab hold
The by-election victor, Lindsay Roy, more than consolidated his grip on the seat with 63% of the poll.

Gordon

Lib Dem hold
Long-standing Lib Dem Malcolm Bruce retained the seat but with a 9% decline in his share of the vote. The SNP jumped into second place, usurping Labour.

Inverclyde

Lab hold
No problems for David Cairns. SNP second and the Lib Dems, who once got a decent vote in Greenock, nowhere.

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey

Lib Dem hold
The author of the Lib Dem manifesto, Danny Alexander, had the consolation of a swing in his favour. Kit Fraser of the Joy of Talk party polled 93 votes.

Kilmarnock and Loudoun

Lab hold
In Des Browne’s old seat, Cathy Jamieson saw her party’s share of the vote leap by 5%. The SNP finished second, but its position declined.

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath

Lab hold
Gordon Brown savoured a personal triumph in Fife, grabbing 65% of the vote.

Lanark and Hamilton East

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