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The SNP achieved a record number of 56 seats in Westminster after the 2015 general election to become the third largest party [31] but in Holyrood it was reduced back to being a minority government at the 2016 election. In the 2021 election, the SNP gained one seat and entered a power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens.
The SNP retained its position as the largest party in terms of votes and councillors. The Conservatives displaced Labour as the second largest party, while the Liberal Democrats suffered a net loss of councillors despite increasing their share of the vote. [9] June 2017: United Kingdom general election. The SNP lost 21 of its MPs, winning 35 seats.
The Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire result has gone to a recount, which will restart at 10.30am on Saturday.
The Scottish Labour Party gained the majority of seats in Scotland for the first time since 2010, regaining most of the seats lost to the SNP in 2015. Labour gained every seat in Glasgow, all but one seat in Edinburgh, and all but one seat in the Central Belt (both of these exceptions being seats won by the Scottish Liberal Democrats).
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A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2015 and all 59 seats in Scotland were contested under the first-past-the-post, single-member district electoral system. Unlike the 2010 general election , where no seats changed party, the Scottish National Party (SNP) won all but three seats in Scotland , gaining a total of 56 seats.
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