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THERE was disappointment for small parties and independent candidates yesterday as their major rivals swept the board at the Scottish elections. New pro-independence organisations Restore Scotland and Scotia Future, led by ex-SNP MSP Chic Brodie, had hoped their manifestos – offering a sovereign Scotland with the EU – would attract Yes voters disenchanted with the pro-Europe policies of the SNP and the Greens. However, despite concerted campaigns, neither secured enough support to win any seats. Two other pro-Yes parties – Action for Independence and the Independence for Scotland Party (ISP) – had also planned to stand candidates, but withdrew after the launch of the Alba Party.
FORMER Greens MSP Andy Wightman thanked backers yesterday after he failed to secure re-election as an independent. The former representative for the Lothian region entered Holyrood in 2016 and quit the party in a row related to their diverging positions on equalities reforms. He subsequently announced he’d go it alone and run in the Highlands and Islands region. His was a platform of land reform, affordable housing and environmental action. Wightman secured 3367 votes but this was not enough to win a seat. However, the Greens did take a list seat with 17,729 votes, meaning Ariane Burgess is now heading to Holyrood.
Gordon MacDonald, right, Ben Macpherson, centre, and Ash Denham all won constituency seats in Edinburgh THEY may have fallen just short of a majority in the Scottish Parliament, but the SNP swept the boards in all three Edinburgh constituencies that were counted and declared yesterday. Ash Denham, Ben Macpherson and Gordon MacDonald comfortably held Edinburgh Eastern, Edinburgh Northern and Leith and Edinburgh Pentlands respectively. The SNP victories across the Lothians meant they gained no list MSPs for the region, but that meant three Conservatives, three Labour and two Scottish Greens were elected. In the last result to be declared, Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater and her colleague, sitting MSP Alison Johnstone, were both elected on the Lothian regional list.
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