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SNP newcomer Siobhian Brown snatched this one-time Tory stronghold from veteran MSP and former deputy presiding officer John Scott by just 170 votes.
Angus Robertson won Edinburgh Central
The figures suggest Mr Scott held onto most of the Tory vote while there was a slight shift of support from Labour to the SNP.
However, some Tories are said to believe the party made a mistake in focusing too much on the regional lists, urging people to back the Conservatives on the peach ballot paper whatever they did with their constituency vote, and failed to put enough money and effort into holding onto its vulnerable constituencies.
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Why couldn’t we have cross-party Unionist unity at the start of the campaign, instead of the very end?
A combination of the SNP, the Greens, and possibly Alex Salmond himself running Scotland is a truly appalling prospect
5 May 2021 • 7:04pm
Alba Party leader Alex Salmond during a visit to the Scotsman Lounge in Edinburgh, on the eve of the Scottish Parliamentary Election on May 6
Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
There’s not a great deal of mystery about Thursday s Scottish election. All the voters need to do if they don’t want a second independence referendum is stop Nicola Sturgeon getting a decent majority by voting for one of the Unionist parties.