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Anas Sarwar has hailed a “historic day” in Scottish politics after Labour made sweeping gains on the way to a UK landslide.

The party has won 37 seats – a gain of 36 - more than three times as many as the SNP on nine.

That includes all six seats in Glasgow and major victories in Edinburgh, Fife and Tayside.

It marks a dramatic uplift from their 2019 performance, when the party was reduced to just a single Scottish MP.

One seat, in Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, is yet to be declared due to a recount.

Speaking on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, surrounded by new MPs, Sarwar said people in Scotland had put their "faith and trust" in the party.

He said: “The people you see around me today, these new Scottish Labour MPs - and aren’t there so many of them? - they are not going to Westminster to sit on the opposition benches, to shout, to protest, and ultimately come back with nothing.

"They are going to sit on the government benches, to sit round the table and make decisions for the people of Scotland. That is the change that people have voted for."

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Harriet Cross, Conservative MP for Gordon and Buchan, says the result marks a "sizeable shift".

Speaking to BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live programme, she says the party can be proud of how it performed in her constituency, where it defeated the SNP by 878 votes.

But, from a UK perspective, Cross adds: "We have lost some big names.

"The party has been shown that we need to reflect.

"We need to look at how we’re going to go forward and make a plan and do that."

Douglas Fraser
Scotland business & economy editor

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The handover of power is carefully choreographed. And having won his constituency, Sir Keir Starmer’s first speech sent an important economic message. Instead of "change", it was "no change".

No change, that is, from the plan set out in the campaign, even with a thumping majority. ‘Country first, party second’ is intended to be more than a slogan.

It’s a message to the electorate and to Labour that it cannot use its grasp on power for the next five years to do as it wants, to splurge on spending or to borrow beyond set limits.

Top of the "first steps" list for Labour is economic stability, and that’s what the new prime minister was signalling.

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Liz Truss’s experiment with unfunded tax cuts showed what awaits a government that loses the trust of the markets. So that first speech was also directed at the markets, not to expect or fear a radically different approach from Labour.

Having priced in a comfortable Labour majority, the markets have responded with very little change.

There are other early steps that will be trickier. Raising the minimum wage is a signal that Labour is pro-worker, but as employers have to pay out, it doesn’t look as pro-business as Labour claims to be.

The new chancellor, almost certainly Rachel Reeves, now has to make good on reassurances that it is not going to clobber the oil and gas sector at the risk of cancelled investment and lost jobs.

The new Labour administration has to put detail to the big claims made for the new state-owned GB Energy, to start legislation on worker rights, and to get quick gains on economic growth to show that 'change' is for real.

This is how the political landscape in Scotland now looks.

There's one seat left to declare - a recount in Inverness, Sky and Ross-Shire won't take place until Saturday morning.

It's been prompted by a statistical error - the number of verified votes didn't match up with the count results.

A first recount - which lasted two hours - took place but the returning officer still wasn't satisfied so candidates and counters will return to Dingwall at 10:30 tomorrow to do it all again.

The seat is currently held by the SNP's Drew Hendry but he's facing a stiff challenge from the Lib Dems' Angus MacDonald

So with 56 out of 57 Scottish results in, the tally looks like this:

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BBC Scotland News

In Edinburgh, one voter tells me how his vote chimed with the result returned in the Edinburgh South West constituency in the early hours.

Andrew Binnie is waiting for a bus and is a previous SNP voter.

But yesterday he put his cross in the box for Labour's Scott Arthur.

Arthur went on to take the seat from the SNP's Joanna Cherry, who had represented the area since 2015.

Andrew says he feels let down by the SNP, over the gender debate and women's issues.

He adds: "I go to a local cafe every day and the general consensus is we have no faith in them at all.

"I'm pro-LGBT and it's just all one-sided."

He also wants the new Labour government to work on housing.

Andrew says: "Housing is a really important issue. I've got five people living in a two-bedroom flat next to me."

A short stroll down Dalry Road, I meet Ronnie Demarco.

He is a fan of Cherry and felt she "got things done".

But he is also visibly disappointed because, in his words, "independence is gone".

He says: "There's nothing we can do about it now.

"We've just got to wait till our own elections and see where we go from there.

"I think the SNP have done more for us, but we just have to wait and see what the rest are going to do".

When I ask about the bigger picture and a Labour government at Westminster he admits: "That's a better move."

He also says there is relief at the Conservatives' demise because they "look after the rich".

A former special adviser to Nicola Sturgeon says it was a "very challenging" campaign for the SNP.

Stuart Nicolson tells BBC Radio’s Lunchtime Live that initial appearances could be deceiving heading into the 2026 Holyrood campaign.

He says: "It is fair to say that this was at the worst end of expectations in terms of whet the range of results might have been.

"John Swinney was in charge of this election, but he has only been the leader for barely two months, so he doesn’t really carry the can in that sense.

"The last time Labour won an election in Scotland in any sense was 2010 when they got 41 MPs and the SNP got six, and yet not even 12 months after that, the SNP won a Holyrood election with an outright majority."

Nicolson says Labour will be delighted with the result while the SNP will need to look closely at what went wrong.

But he adds: "I don’t think people should make too many assumptions based on this vote alone."

Chris McEleny stood in the Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West constituency for the Alba party.

The party was unsuccessful in all seats it stood in.

Speaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said his constituency had its lowest turnout since 1837.

He says some people failed to vote and stayed at home because the SNP "refused" to put independence on the ballot paper.

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He says if the SNP fail to “pick up that mantle”, the Alba party will pick up the pro-independence votes.

“The case for independence has never been stronger. Sadly, John Swinney fought the same election campaign that he fought 20 years ago when he was SNP leader and he’s got the same result.

“You fail to put a positive case forward for independence and you fail to actually get on with the job of leading well, unfortunately the results show you what you get.”

James Cook
Scotland editor

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There was a splash of red on Clydeside again this morning as Scottish Labour's winning MPs gathered for the cameras.The photographers needed wide-angled lenses to capture them all.

Former cabinet minister Douglas Alexander, who lost his seat in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to the SNP in 2015, is now back as member of parliament for Lothian East.

"I can't remember an election in Scotland where independence was less talked about, he told me, adding: "The fact is, the disastrous failure of the Scottish National Party over the last 17 years has finally caught up with them."

Joani Reid, the new MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven says voters had immediate, practical concerns.

"I think people are struggling to pay their bills," says Ms Reid, who is the granddaughter of the late trade unionist Jimmy Reid.

"They're quite often languishing on NHS waiting lists. They're concerned about their children's futures. They're not thinking about the constitution," she adds.

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The new Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles) MP, Torcuil Crichton, a former journalist, explains his success in one short line: "The cost of living was getting worse."

"On the islands," he adds, "every policy from central government, either in London or in Edinburgh, affects us more acutely."

How can Labour deliver meaningful change while sticking to Conservative spending limits and some Tory welfare policies?

"Growth is the key," says Kirsty McNeill, who worked as an adviser to the last Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, and who is now the MP for Midlothian.

"If we can't get growth, we can't get investment that we have promised in our public services.

"It is," she adds, "the number one priority of an incoming government."

Giancarlo Rinaldi
South Scotland reporter, BBC news website

Dumfries and Galloway Council has been explaining why the counts for two constituencies in Dumfries were among the last in the UK to be declared.

Results for Dumfriessshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale and Dumfries and Galloway had been expected by about 04:30 but instead the final result came out at about 10:30.

A council statement said it had taken longer than it had envisaged but "accuracy - not speed" was its paramount concern.

The "wide and diverse" geography, a large number of late postal votes and staff holidays were also cited as reasons for the delay.

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Starmer says in his speech: “Whether you voted Labour or not, especially if you did not, I say to you directly, my government will serve you.

"Politics can be a force for good. We will show that. We have changed the Labour party, returned it to service and that is how we will govern. Country first, party second."

Finishing his speech, Starmer says the four nations of the UK are "standing together again, facing down as we have in the past the challenges of an insecure world".

He greets wellwishers and poses for photographers outside the door of Number 10 with his wife Victoria before disappearing inside.

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Starmer says the gap that has grown between people and politicians has led to "weariness in the heart of a nation, a draining away of the hope, the spirit, the belief in a better future".

He adds the lack of trust can only be healed by actions, not words.

Starmer says: "This wound, this lack of trust can only be healed by actions not words - I know that, but we can make a start today with a simple acknowledgement that public service is a privilege and your government should treat every single person in the country with respect."

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After jubilant scenes as he arrived in Downing Street, Keir Starmer says he wants to thank Rishi Sunak.

The Labour leader adds that Sunak's achievement as the first British Asian PM of this country should not be "underestimated by anyone".

But Starmer adds: "Now our country has voted decisively for change and a return of politics to public service."

Iain Macinnes
BBC Scotland

The result of the ballot in a Highland constituency has been delayed until Saturday.

The outcome in Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shirehad been expected at about 05:00, but just before 10:00 candidates were told the votes would need to be recounted for a second time.

Returning officer Derek Brown said there was a discrepancy between the verified votes total and the provisional number of counted votes.

The candidates - including the SNP's Drew Hendry who has been an MP in the area since 2015 - have been told to return to the counting centre in Dingwall at 10:30 on Saturday.

Read more here.

Aileen Clarke
BBC Scotland News

The country may have witnessed history this morning but it was business as usual in Port Seaton.

The new Lothian East seat was taken by returning Labour veteran Douglas Alexander.

I met Daniel Mack, a fish supplier in East Lothian, out making his usual Friday deliveries.

He said he saw the result coming.

"It was clear people wanted change," he said.

"This traditionally was a Labour area and people have returned to them."

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Sir Keir Starmer has just officially become prime minister after an audience with the King at Buckingham Palace.

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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says thank you to people across Scotland for putting their "faith and trust" in to Scottish Labour.

Speaking to Nicky Campbell, he says: "I think it would be wrong to pretend somehow it was all just a tactical voting block.

"The reason so many people have turned to Scottish Labour this election is of course because they wanted to get rid of the Tories after 14 years.

"It is because they wanted a UK Labour government and change, but also they’re so frustrated after 17 years of the SNP and their incompetence and failure."

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Meanwhile, in London Sir Keir Starmer is at Buckingham Palace alongside his wife for his audience with King Charles.

He will formally be invited to form a government and become PM.

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The UK's smallest electorate has voted in a Labour MP with an almost 50% share of the vote.

Former journalist Torcuil Crichton won the Na h-Eileanan an Iar seat, previously known as the Western Isles.

Crichton, who has a background in Gaelic broadcasting and was Westminster editor at the Daily Record, said the SNP's leadership "abandoned" islanders.

Na h-Eileanan an Iar was held for the SNP by Angus MacNeil for 19 years until he was expelled by the party last year.

Crichton says he aims to tackle failing ferry services, housing shortages and depopulation.

He also proposes a single authority for island health services.

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Sir Keir Starmer will be the first Labour leader since to become prime minister since Gordon Brown left office in 2010.

Brown, who served as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath during his time in Number 10, congratulated the PM-in-waiting on social media.

Writing on X, external, he said: "Keir Starmer has summed it up 'today we enter the sunlight of hope'. Congratulations to Keir and all UK Labour for a resounding election victory.

"My best wishes to all the new Labour MPs and, above all, I congratulate the British people who have chosen not just change, but hope."

Lynsey Bews
BBC Scotland chief political correspondent

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In Scotland it has been a night of political contrasts - celebration for Labour and catastrophe for the SNP.

Having turned itself into an election winning machine, the party dropped dozens of seats from the 48 it won in 2019, marking its worst performance in a general election for more than a decade.

Losses had been expected.

The SNP’s troubles are well known - disillusionment over a lack of progress towards independence, internal divisions over gender reform and the ongoing police investigation into party finances, to name a few.

But many in the SNP were shocked by the scale of defeat, as seat after seat turned from yellow to red.

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