Scottish Election results 2021 RECAP: Alex Salmond concedes Alba unlikely to win seats | SNP's Angus Robertson takes Edinburgh Central from Scottish Conservatives | Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney win constituencies | Labour's Jackie Baillie holds onto Dumbarton | Turnout surges | Interactive constituency map
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Take a look back on the events as they happened throughout the day.
Scottish Election 2021 RECAP: Election results and updates from across Scotland
Key Events
- Angus Robertson takes Edinburgh Central from Tories
- Sturgeon plays down chances of SNP majority
- SNP take Ayr from Tories in tight race
- Salmond concedes Alba unlikely to win seats
- SNP gain East Lothian from Labour
Salmond attends count in Aberdeen
Alba Party leader Alex Salmond attended the count at the P&J Live arena in Aberdeen from the very start of counting at 9am on Friday.
The former first minister is top of his party’s North East Scotland regional list, with the hopes of creating a “supermajority” for independence in the next Scottish Parliament.
On Friday morning he stood at a table in the P&J Live venue with a clipboard as he observed peach regional list ballots being counted, so called because of the colour of the paper they are printed on.
Both votes are being counted concurrently with the Aberdeen Donside constituency result expected first early on Friday afternoon – with the regional result not known until Saturday evening after receiving those figures from Aberdeenshire, Angus and Dundee.
Co-leader of the Scottish Green Party Patrick Harvie arrives at the count for the Scottish Parliamentary Elections at the Emirates Arena, Glasgow.
Scottish Election 2021: How to use our interactive Holyrood Election result map
This is how you can use our interactive Holyrood Election 2021 result map
We’ve created an interactive constituency map to display the winning party in each seat as the results come in – here’s some background on how we will be using this graphic.
Votes being counted for the Scottish Parliamentary Elections at Ingliston Highland Centre, Edinburgh
Votes being counted for the Scottish Parliamentary Elections at Ingliston Highland Centre, Edinburgh
