Latest headlines
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Victory for the SNP with 63 seats - two short of a majority
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Conservatives are the second largest party on 31 seats - but Labour on 24 lost 13 seats
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Scottish Greens are the fourth largest party with six seats, ahead of the Lib Dems who won five
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Scoreboard
| Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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Party
SNP Scottish National Party |
Candidates Jeane Freeman | Votes 14,690 | 46.4% | Net percentage change in seats +0.2 |
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Party
LAB Scottish Labour |
Candidates Carol Mochan | Votes 8,684 | 27.4% | Net percentage change in seats −9.8 |
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CON Scottish Conservatives |
Candidates Lee Lyons | Votes 7,666 | 24.2% | Net percentage change in seats +9.7 |
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Party
LD Scottish Lib Dems |
Candidates Dawud Islam | Votes 640 | 2.0% | Net percentage change in seats −0.2 |
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Change compared with 2011 |
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Turnout and Majority
Scottish National Party Majority
6,006Turnout
54.1%Constituency Profile
The seat, which sits south of Ayr, is a mix of pastoral beauty and post-industrial areas, famously eulogised by poet Robert Burns, who was born in Alloway. The hills and coastal scenery attract tourists, but there is also a significant industrial heritage. John Loudon Macadam first experimented with his tarmac on roads here, and there is a history of coal mining and ironworks.
There is farming to the south, and a small seaside resort at Girvan, but the industrial regions are the most heavily populated. Keir Hardie, co-founder of the Labour Party and its first ever candidate, lived in Cumnock for many years.
Historically, this area was represented at Westminster by Jim Sillars between 1970 and 1979, as a Labour MP before he joined the SNP. Labour's Cathy Jamieson won the seat at the first Holyrood election in 1999 and held it in 2003 and 2007, before Adam Ingram took it for the SNP in 2011.