Holyrood Election 2026: Results flooding in across the country

The Lib Dems have Andrew Baxter elected.

Anas Sarwar returns to Holyrood on the Glasgow regional list. Whether he remains as Labour leader remains to be seen.

For the Greens, former leader Patrick Harvie is also heading back to the Scottish Parliament, while Reform’s Thomas Kerr graduates to MSP.

LABOUR: 3 SEATS

REFORM: 2 SEATS

GREENS: 2 SEATS

REFORM: 3 SEATS

LABOUR: 2 SEATS

GREENS: 1 SEAT

LIB DEMS: 1 SEAT

‘We always knew this was going to be a tough election,’ Russell Findlay has said on a day that has so far seen his party lose seven seats in the Holyrood election.

Speaking to journalists at a count at the Braehead Arena in Renfrew, the Scottish Conservatives leader said votes for Reform UK had seen his party lose out to the SNP in a number of close-fought seats.

‘What we warned would happen is exactly what has happened,’ he said.

‘In many seats the Scottish Conservative candidates were beaten by the narrowest of margins, and that’s because people voted for Reform in those seats and let the SNP through the middle.’

Mr Findlay also said it was ‘really disappointing’ to see one-time party leader Jackson Carlaw lose his Eastwood seat to the SNP’s Kirsten Oswald.

Russell Findlay is a candidate in the West of Scotland regional list, which is expected to be declared on Friday evening.

Emma Roddick has won Fergus Ewing’s old seat.

TORIES: 2 SEATS

REFORM: 2 SEATS

GREENS: 1 SEAT

LABOUR: 1 SEAT

LIB DEM: 1 SEAT

GREENS: 3 SEATS

LABOUR: 2 SEATS

REFORM: 1 SEAT

TORIES: 1 SEAT

REFORM: 2 SEATS

TORIES: 2 SEATS

LABOUR: 2 SEATS

GREENS: 1 SEAT

John Swinney has said the SNP has ‘won emphatically’ in the Scottish Parliament election.

With 70 out of 73 constituencies declared, Mr Swinney’s party has won 55 seats.

Holyrood’s regional list seats will be declared later on Friday evening. Mr Swinney said:

It is now clear that the SNP has won and we have won emphatically. Living in a democracy is something that all of us should cherish and I would like thank everyone who voted in this election. Once again the people of Scotland have put their trust in us. However you voted today, I promise that I will be a First Minister for all of Scotland.

All of us care about our country’s future. I give you my commitment that I will work every day to improve your life and make Scotland the nation we know it can be.