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Unionist voters stopped Sturgeon winning a majority by a whisker Scotland s Tory leader openly suggested that Conservative supporters should vote Labour in seats where his party was not in with a chance 8 May 2021 • 11:19pm Unionist voters stopped Nicola Sturgeon winning an SNP majority by a whisker thanks to unprecedented levels of tactical voting in the Holyrood election. The SNP benefits from the first-past-the-post system used to determine the result in the Scottish Parliament s 73 constituencies, with the vast majority of independence supporters voting for the party. In contrast, the Unionist vote fragments between the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, allowing the SNP to come through the middle.

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