Local elections results as they happened: SNP gains and Lib Dem resurgence as Tories take a bruising
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Nicola Sturgeon hailed the seismic result and tweeted: “National/city trends aside, this result is seismic. For years, Pollokshields was the only Tory seat in Glasgow and it seemed we would never take it.”
Elsewhere in the city, leader Susan Aiken was overtaken by the Scottish Greens on first preference votes in the Langside ward.
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Alex Salmond’s Alba party have failed to secure any councillors
Local elections results LIVE: 2022 Scottish council elections as they happened
The increase in votes across Scotland for Labour matches a growing confidence nationwide in the Party.
Labour is back on its feet again, the shadow attorney general has said.
Emily Thornberry MP told Sky News that the local election results were at the “top end” of what Labour was hoping for.
“I’m not saying that we haven’t got a huge amount of work to do”, she said.
“But I think that if you think about the morning after, or the week after, 2019, how bad it was, people were saying to us that it was pretty much the end of the Labour Party, we weren’t ever going to get back on our feet again.
“This shows that we have got back on our feet again.
“Of the presentations that we’ve had, and the discussions that we’ve had in the shadow cabinet, this is definitely at the top end of what we were hoping was going to happen.”
RESULT: The SNP has become the largest party on Perth and Kinross Council, winning 16 of the 4 seats.
The Scottish Conservatives dropped three seats, down to 14.
There are now four independents, two Lib Dems and two Labour.
RESULT: Labour gain one seat to remain the largest party on East Lothian Council, with 10 of the 22 seats.
The SNP also gained one seat and are on seven, with the Scottish Conservatives losing three seats and now have just four.
The Scottish Greens won one seat.
East Lothian Council had been run by a Labour minority administration.
RESULT: The Scottish National Party has taken overall control of Dundee City Council with 15 of the 29 seats.
Labour are the second largest party with no change to their nine seats.
The Lib Dems won four seats, down two, and the Tories won one, also down two.