Holyrood Election 2026: Results flooding in across the country

As these images (below) show, Fergus Ewing represented the Inverness and Nairn area for the SNP for decades. However, he has conceded his career as an MSP is now over.

Mr Ewing stood as an independent against his former party this time around but it was not to be.

The seat is still to be declared but it looks like it will either go to Emma Roddick of the SNP or Neil Alexander of the Lib Dems.

Mr Ewing says he doesn’t know what he will do yet but rules out ‘sitting doing the crossword and watching daytime TV’ for now.

The SNP loses Caithness and Sutherland as the Lib Dems’ David Green wins.

It means SNP stalwart Maree Todd, who was until recently the Scottish government’s drugs and alcohol minister, loses her seat.

So far, 69 out of 129 seats have declared.

SNP: 55 Lib Dems: 5 Tories: 4 Labour: 3 Greens: 2

We are waiting for the last four constituency seats.

The 56 regional list seats will then be allocated after that.

Jackie Baillie has been an MSP in Dumbarton for 27 years and now she’s got another five to serve after winning there with 12,747 votes.

She won by a majority of 1,786 over the SNP’s Sophie Traynor.

Taking to the podium after her win, Ms Baillie said:

Now whilst it is undoubtedly a positive result in this constituency because we have almost doubled the majority, I am disappointed in the overall result across the country.

We made the argument for change in this election but we’ve lost that argument, but the need for change absolutely remains.

Former Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross addresses the party’s performance so far.

The Tories went into the election as the second largest party but have seen their share of the vote fall in numerous seats.

Mr Ross says it has been ‘a difficult campaign’ for the party, although he backs current leader Russell Findlay, saying he has had an ‘excellent campaign’ but it’s ‘not translating into results’

He welcomes the fact the party held three seats in the south of Scotland.

He says Reform – which is widely viewed as having taken votes from the unionist parties – ‘missed a trick’ when it chose to stand candidates in the 73 constituencies and should have instead focussed on list votes.

He said Reform ‘did well’ in constituencies, but nowhere near well enough.

One of the Scottish Green Party’s newly elected MSPs has said the party is no longer a ‘wasted vote’ after it won its first two constituency seats.

Lorna Slater’s win in Edinburgh Central, where she finished ahead of SNP minister Angus Robertson, meant she became the first Green to win a Holyrood constituency rather than a regional list seat.

Holly Bruce also won Glasgow Southside for the Greens, a seat formerly held by ex-first minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Ms Bruce was battling equalities minister Kaukab Stewart in the constituency.

The Scottish Greens are hopeful of winning their largest group of MSPs, with the full results of regional ballots expected on Friday evening.

Speaking to journalists after her result was announced, Ms Bruce said: ‘I’m delighted for Lorna, she won by a landslide, and I think it’s a big turning point that voting Green isn’t a wasted vote any more on the constituency ballot.

‘We mean business.’

Another fromer SNP cabinet member returns as Mairi McAllan wins in Clydesdale.

However, the votes she won are 6.9% down on what the party secured the last time round.

With most of the constituency results now in, here’s how things stand so far:

• SNP: 55 seats
• Scottish Liberal Democrats: 5 seats
• Scottish Conservatives: 4 seats
• Scottish Greens: 2 seats
• Scottish Labour: 2 seats

Scottish Conservative MSP Alexander Burnett has hit out at Reform following his own win in Aberdeenshire West. He said:

We will have a parliament that will be unrepresentative of the people. For this time, the Greens have been overtaken as an enabler by Reform who have no interest in Scotland, no interest in the UK, no interest in beating the SNP. They are the handmaiden of the SNP and their biggest cheerleader is John Swinney.

A surreal defeat for Angus Robertson.