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SNP Wins 56 Seats in Parliament Out of 59 Possible in UK General Election

© AFP 2023 / Andy BuchananScottish National Party (SNP) supporters celebrate as election results are announced at the Glasgow election count at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, on May 8, 2015
Scottish National Party (SNP) supporters celebrate as election results are announced at the Glasgow election count at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, on May 8, 2015 - Sputnik International
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The Scottish National Party (SNP) has taken a historical lead over the Labour in Scotland, winning 56 seats at Westminster, the vote count showed early Friday morning.

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LONDON (Sputnik) The Scottish National Party has even managed to win in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, which the Labour hoped to retain as the old seat of Gordon Brown. Moreover, SNP won East Renfrewshire from the leader of the Scottish Labour Party Jim Murphy.

Scottish nationalists lost just three seats to other parties — one to the Labour, one to the Conservatives, and one to the Liberal Democrats.

In the previous British parliament, the SNP had only six seats.

The party believes it was its opposition to austerity that has made it so popular in the United Kingdom.

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