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Professor Michael Keating, chair of Scottish politics at the university of Aberdeen and director at the ESRC Centre on Constitutional Change, says

Speaking on Newsdrive Prof Keating says the surprising thing is there are not more hung parliaments.

The academic says Theresa May having to work with the DUP which will be difficult, which gives her effectively the majority she had before at around 17.

There are real problems about doing a deal with DUP as efforts are made to try to get the Northern Irish executive up and running and dealing with the Irish border, says Prof Keating.

The Mansfield count had its own version of the Oscars' "Envelopegate" - after the returning officer announced the wrong winning candidate.

The Conservatives took Mansfield for the first time, overturning 94 years of Labour rule.

Former first minister Alex Salmond lost his seat to the Conservatives.

The SNP lynchpin and ex-party leader was defeated by Colin Clark in Gordon.

Mr Salmond, the SNP's foreign affairs spokesman, had swept to power in the seat with a 8,687 majority in 2015, overturning decades of Liberal Democrat rule

Here's a little trip down SNP memory lane...............

Alex Salmond bounced back to a prominent role in the SNP as foreign affairs spokesman after stepping down as first minister and party leader after defeat in the Scottish independence referendum.

He was elected to the Gordon seat in 2015, ending decades of Liberal Democrat rule by deputy party leader Sir Malcolm Bruce who stood down ahead of the election.

Mr Salmond joined the party in 1973 while at St Andrews University and was elected MP for Banff and Buchan in 1987, gaining prominence when he was suspended for a week for disrupting the chancellor's Budget speech the following year.

He said later the incident - in which business in the Commons was suspended while Mr Salmond was expelled from the chamber - took him from "total nonentity to notoriety".

Mr Salmond took over the leadership of the SNP for the first time in 1990 and remained at the helm in 1997 when the SNP increased its tally of MPs to six and played a key part in the successful campaign for a new Scottish Parliament.

The first Holyrood election took place in 1999, with Mr Salmond becoming MSP for Banff and Buchan.

He stood down as SNP leader in 2000 and left the Scottish Parliament the following year, and despite refuting speculation he would return to the top job, saying - "If nominated, I'll decline; if drafted, I'll defer; and if elected, I'll resign" - he stood on a joint ticket with Nicola Sturgeon marking the start of a decade-long partnership.

In 2007, he returned to Holyrood as MSP for Gordon and the new first minister, a position he held for seven years making him the longest serving.

Four year later, his party won an unprecedented overall majority at Holyrood and secured a referendum on the long-held SNP dream of Scottish independence.

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The general election has ended in a hung Parliament, where no party has the 326 seats needed to get an overall majority in the House of Commons.

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Scotland's seventh trip to the polls in just over three years is in the books, and it's been another thrill-ride.

There have been gains and losses the length and breadth of the country, and a massive question mark hangs over what happens next at Westminster.

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Alistair Carmichael summed it up during his victory speech in Orkney and Shetland: "The people have spoken, but it's not yet exactly clear what they've said."

So what do the results mean for the big issues in Scotland?

BBC Scotland's political reporter Philip Sim has all the answers.

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Political heavyweights Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson were among significant SNP losses in north east Scotland.

Former party leader Mr Salmond lost his Gordon seat to Conservative Colin Clark.

Westminster leader Angus Robertson, the party deputy leader, lost his Moray seat to Conservative Douglas Ross.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon later said the loss of MPs including Mr Salmond and Mr Robertson was "bitterly disappointing".

There were also Conservative gains from the SNP in Banff and Buchan, Aberdeen South and Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon paid tribute to Mr Robertson, who had been MP for Moray since 2001, describing him as a "politician and parliamentarian of immense stature, who week after week held the Prime Minister to account, providing the scrutiny that the official opposition in the House of Commons failed to do".

Ms Sturgeon continued: "I want to also make particular mention of Alex Salmond, my friend and mentor for almost 30 years, and without a shadow of a doubt the giant of modern Scottish politics - someone who has devoted his life to serving this country."

The 2015 result, in which the SNP won all but three of the seats in Scotland, was an "exceptional, perhaps once in a century" achievement, she said.

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Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said: "The election result was a monumental event with the loss of colossal figures on the Scottish political scene."

"The loss of 21 MPs including the former first minister Alex Salmond and the SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson will leave a major hole in Scottish politics and the SNP."

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Scotland has 59 Westminster seats. When did they declare and what was the result?

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The night of the general election brought mixed fortunes for Scotland's political parties.

Nicola Sturgeon's SNP have 34 seats but lost some big names, primarily to the Conservatives, which prompted Ruth Davidson to claim: "Indyref2 is dead".

The political fortunes of Labour and the Liberal Democrats look brighter with each party picking up seats across the country.

On a lighter note, Mr Fishfinger, Elmo and Lord Buckethead took on some of the UK party leaders.

Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said a vote should be held in Holyrood to "sist, delay and stop" another referendum in the current parliamentary term.

The Lib Dems won four seats in the general election north of the border, fighting back after being reduced to just one Scottish MP in 2015.

The constituencies won were Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross, East Dunbartonshire, Edinburgh West and Orkney & Shetland.

In North East Fife, Lib Dem candidate Elizabeth Riches lost to the SNP's Stephen Gethins by just two votes.

Of another independence referendum, Mr Rennie said the electorate in Scotland have "rejected that proposal" and called on Nicola Sturgeon to rule it out.

SNP plans for a second independence referendum were "undoubtedly" a factor in the general election result, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The first minister was speaking after her party lost 21 of the 56 seats it won in 2015 - including those of Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson.

Despite the losses, the SNP remain the largest party in Scotland with 35 of the country's 59 constituencies.

The Scottish Conservatives increased their number of MPs from one to 13.

However, across the UK the Tories are forecast to end up with 319 seats - 12 fewer seats than when Theresa May called the election.

Theresa May has said she will form a government with the support of the Democratic Unionists.

Scottish Labour also upped their tally from one MP in 2015 to seven, while the Scottish Liberal Democrats increased their number from one to four.

Speaking from her official residence of Bute House in Edinburgh, the first minister said:"Undoubtedly the issue of an independence referendum was a factor in this election result, but I think there were other factors in this election result as well."

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Alex Cole Hamilton, Scottish Liberal Democrats' general election campaign director, said there isn't "a lot of meat on the bones" of what Brexit actually means.

Speaking on the John Beattie programme on BBC Radio Scotland, Mr Cole-Hamilton said the Tory party don't know what Brexit means and wanted a free whip hand to go and "start cutting up rough in Brussells."

"The electorate have sent them home to think again on that.

"We start the Brexit negotiations from a basis of abject humiliation and I think this is the worst possible circumstances," he says.