FORMER SNP MP Angus Robertson has taken the Edinburgh Central seat from the Conservatives.
It was previously held by Ruth Davidson, the former Scottish Tory leader who is going to the House of Lords.
Robertson had a majority of 4732 and increased the SNP vote by 10% of the share, beating Tory Scott Douglas by 16,276 votes to 11,544.
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Speaking after his election, Robertson said voters in the seat had rejected Boris Johnson and Brexit.
The SNP remains the only party which has gained seats, taking two constituencies from the Tories and one from Labour.
“We have just won the seat of the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives and recorded our best ever SNP result,” he said.
“The people, many of whom stood in queues of rain and hail yesterday, have spoken and their democratic choice has been to elect an SNP MSP for Edinburgh Central, in support of an SNP Scottish Government dealing with Covid recovery, for the re-election of Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister and that Scotland’s future should be in Scotland’s hands.”
He added: “In this most European of capital cities, people have resoundingly rejected the party of Brexit and Boris Johnson.”
The result means the SNP are now half way to their target of winning six marginal constituency seats in order to get to 65 seats
The results in the constituency were the following:
- SNP - 16,276
- Conservatives - 11,544
- Labour - 6,839
- LibDems - 2,555
- Green - 3,921
- UKIP - 78
- BPB - 363
- Lib - 137
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