The SNP 'Whoop it Up'

The SNP has won the local elections emphatically, with more seats than any other party, an increased and higher share of the vote than any other party and as the largest party in more councils than any other party.

Regardless of politics and policies we have a good relationship with the SNP whose press release output and sheer vigor leaves other political parties in their wake. We have just turned down a request to donate to the Labour Party, who have ignored the ABC and our growing audience for the last year. We are too kind to print our reply. It was however, NO THANK YOU!  

Our local Labour candidate, Cllr Lee Scordis Councillor for the Ward, Old Heath and The Hythe actually won, but he must feel like a 'lone yachtsman' surrounded by all that Tory blue, as Essex was mopped-up once again, by the Conservatives. 

Image: Cllr Lee Scordis (Labour). 

Back to the charging SNP. 

In key victories across the country, making progress on the party’s record-breaking result in 2012, the SNP broke Labour’s 37 year stranglehold on Glasgow City Council, to become the largest party and held off a Tory surge in Aberdeen to give the city a fresh start with the SNP.

The SNP is now the largest party in Scotland’s four largest cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.

The SNP secured:

•             431 councillors, an increase on the number won in 2012 and over 150 more than the party in second place.

•             The highest share of first preference votes — up on 2012.

•             The SNP is the largest party in 16, or half, of Scotland’s councils — up from 10 in 2012 — and joint largest in 3 further councils, putting the SNP in pole position across the country.

The results show that more people are putting their trust in the SNP to  stand firm against the increasingly hard line Tory government.

The Tories claims that they would win councils with an anti-independence majority failed to materialise as the party came a distant second to the SNP and Labour’s vote collapsed in Scotland and across the UK showing they cannot provide the opposition to the Tories that is needed, while the Lib Dems failed to make up any ground.

Welcoming the exceptional result, SNP Leader and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said:

“The SNP has won the election in Scotland and won it loud and clear.

“Thanks to the support of people across the country, the SNP has secured the largest number of councillors, the highest share of the vote – with an increase on the last result in 2012 and is the largest party in the most council areas.

“SNP councillors and SNP councils will put their communities and the people of Scotland first.

“Results across the UK show that now more than ever Scotland needs strong SNP voices to stand up to a Tory government that is set to impose more cuts and put thousands of jobs at risk.

 “It is clear from these results that the only party who can be that strong opposition to the Tories — in Scotland and across the UK — is the SNP.

“Where Labour let Scotland down by losing so many seats to the Tories the SNP showed that the Tories cannot take Scotland’s votes for granted.

 “The local election results are an excellent springboard for the general election on June 8th.”

Here are the stats: 

431 SNP Councillors have been elected, an increase on our record 2012 result. The SNP is the largest party in:

Edinburgh

Moray

Fife

Dundee

North Lanarkshire

West Lothian

West Dunbartonshire

Renfrewshire

Argyll & Bute

Aberdeen

East Dunbartonshire

Glasgow

Falkirk

Clackmannanshire

South Lanarkshire

East Ayrshire

SNP are the joint largest party in:

Stirling

North Ayrshire

Angus