John Swinney will return as first minister after a fifth Scottish election victory for the SNP.

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It’s a cool, crisp Monday morning in Glasgow. No wind, no wet, no drama – the sort of morning that would seem to mirror the no-nonsense persona of Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, who visits Dublin on Tuesday. The Scottish government is ...

John Swinney's party finished comfortably ahead of its rivals, but short of an overall majority.

Independence should be a priority for John Swinney’s newly-returned Scottish Government, one of his MSPs has insisted.Stephen Gethins pointed to the record 73 MSPs elected on Thursday who support independence – with the SNP winning 58 seats and the Greens taking 15.

Although the salience of Scottish independence has declined since 2021, the SNP retains the support of two thirds of pro-independence voters. At the same time, the only other pro-independence party, the Scottish Greens, has withdrawn from all but a handful of constituencies.

The Scottish Liberal Democrat's David Green has won Caithness, Sutherland and Ross - the UK's biggest constituency by geographic size. Green beat the SNP's Maree Todd, a former Scottish government minister, into second place. She had been hoping to be returned as the area's MSP.

Two summers ago, the Scottish National Party was in a sorry state, said Annabel Denham in The Daily Telegraph. It had lost 38 Westminster seats in a punishing general election, and the party was “mired in scandal”, with its chief executive being ...

SNP is projected to win a fifth term in the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. SNP winning most seats at 68.5% YES.

In Fife the SNP have held onto every constituency but across the Firth in Edinburgh there is a very different picture.