The SNP in Scotland has its worst election since 2010

Party leader John Swinney summed up the evening with the words:

– It's a very bad result and hard to deal with.

He says that According to the BBC. The states have not yet been fully counted, but it is already clear that the SNP has made its worst choice since 2010. It drops from 48 to 10, out of a possible 57 for Scotland in the UK parliament. The result also means that the SDP will have its majority and return to power after 14 years in opposition.

I am Glasgow Crown Labour has all six seats from the SNP.

“We need to listen to the British people, and we need to do so carefully,” says Sweeney. “We need to analyse what they are telling us with this result and what it means for a number of issues affecting the country.”

The loss was expected for several reasons. The SNP's problems are wide-ranging. This team is well known. Among other things, the poor result was due to lack of progress on independence, internal divisions and an ongoing police investigation into the party's finances.

But still, the results came as a shock. Few expected this. So what happens now?

The SNP has been clear that its majority in Scotland would provide a mandate to negotiate Scottish independence. Plans for a referendum are now out of reach.

Bartledarin John Sweeney She announced that she would conduct a proper self-examination, and indicated that she faced a difficult challenge to mobilise in time for the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections.

“We have to find our way back to our soul,” Sweeney says. “And tonight’s results will have consequences, of course.”

In East Renfrewshire, SNP deputy leader Kirsten Oswald lost her seat to Labour's Blair McDougall, the mastermind behind the Better Together campaign ahead of Scotland's 2014 independence referendum.

Westminster group leader Stephen Flynn was allowed to keep his seat in Aberdeen South, but told the BBC it had been a “very dark and difficult night for the SNP” and that the party “must learn from it”.

– It's a Starmer tsunami. Flynn says it's proof people want change in Downing Street.

The result also means the SNP are no longer the third largest party in the London parliament. They are now the Liberal Democrats.

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