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UK election: SNP wins 56 of 59 seats in Scots landslide
The SNP has recorded a historic landslide general election victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats. Labour has been left with just one MP in Scotland, with Scottish leader Jim Murphy, Douglas Alexander and Margaret Curran among those losing their seats. The Liberal Democrats lost nine seats with only Alistair Carmichael holding on in Orkney and Shetland. The Conservatives held Dumfrieshshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale - the other seat to withstand the SNP tsunami. Senior Lib Dems Danny Alexander and Charles Kennedy also lost to the SNP. The SNP won by 10,000 votes in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, which had previously been held by Gordon Brown.
The SNP has won all seven seats in Glasgow from Labour, while former party leader Alex Salmond will be returning to the House of Commons after winning the Gordon constituency from the Liberal Democrats.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy lost his Ross, Skye and Lochaber seat to the SNP's Ian Blackford. Kennedy had held the seat for 32 years.
And former Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander lost by more than 10,000 votes to Drew Hendry of the SNP in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
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