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Your support makes all the difference.The SNP have secured a record a landslide result in Scotland taking 56 of Scotland’s 59 seats, relegating Labour to one seat, along with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
In one of the most surprising defeats of the night, Douglas Alexander, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, lost his seat to a 20-year-old SNP candidate, who is the UK’s youngest MP for centuries. The Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy, also lost his seat.
One of the most well-known names returning to Westminster is Alex Salmond, who won the Gordon constituency from the Liberal Democrats.
The SNP MPs elected in 2015 are as follows:
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh Ochil & South Perthshire
Richard Arkless Dumfries & Galloway
Hannah Bardell Livingston
Mhairi Black Paisley & Renfrewshire South
Ian Blackford Ross, Skye & Lochaber
Kirsty Blackman Aberdeen North
Phil Boswell Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill
Deidre Brock Edinburgh North & Leith
Alan Brown Kilmarnock & Loudoun
Lisa Cameron East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow
Douglas Chapman Dunfermline & West Fife
Joanna Cherry Edinburgh South West
Ronnie Cowan Inverclyde
Angela Crawley Lanark & Hamilton East
Martyn Day Linlithgow & East Falkirk
Martin Docherty West Dunbartonshire
Stuart Donaldson West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine
Marion Fellows Motherwell & Wishaw
Margaret Ferrier Rutherglen & Hamilton West
Stephen Gethins North East Fife
Patricia Gibson North Ayrshire & Arran
Patrick Grady Glasgow North
Peter Grant Glenrothes
Neil Gray Airdrie & Shotts
Drew Hendry Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey
Stewart Hosie Dundee East
George Kerevan East Lothian
Calum Kerr Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk County
Chris Law Dundee West
Angus MacNeil Na H-Eileanan An Iar
Callum McCaig Aberdeen South
Stewart McDonald Glasgow South
Stuart McDonald Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East
Natalie McGarry Glasgow East
Anne McLaughlin Glasgow North East
John McNally Falkirk
Paul Monaghan Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross
Carol Monaghan Glasgow North West
Roger Mullin Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath
Gavin Newlands Paisley & Renfrewshire North
John Nicolson East Dunbartonshire
Brendan O'Hara Argyll & Bute
Kirsten Oswald East Renfrewshire
Steven Paterson Stirling
Angus Robertson Moray
Alex Salmond Gordon
Tommy Sheppard Edinburgh East
Chris Stephens Glasgow South West
Alison Thewliss Glasgow Central
Owen Thompson Midlothian
Michelle Thomson Edinburgh West
Mike Weir Angus
Eilidh Whiteford Banff & Buchan
Philippa Whitford Central Ayrshire
Corri Wilson Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock
Pete Wishart Perth & North Perthshire
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