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Scottish National Party wins landslide 56 seats in British general election

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Scottish National Party (SNP) on Friday won by a historic landslide of 56 seats out of 59 seats for Scotland in British general election.

Nicola Sturgeon, SNP leader and Scottish First Minister, celebrated the SNP victories at the count center in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. The SNP became Britain's third largest party at Westminster British parliament.

Sturgeon had said the general election provides an opportunity to make a "positive change" in the Westminster parliament system to serve Scotland better.

The Scottish Labour Party lost 40 seats to the SNP with only one seat left in Scotland after Scottish leader Jim Murphy and Labour shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander were included in the Labour losers.

The Scottish Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) lost 10 seats with only Alistair Carmichael, the Secretary of State for Scotland in the British coalition government, holding one in Orkney and Shetland in the north of Scotland.

Danny Alexander, LDP member of parliament and Chief Secretary to the Treasury of the coalition government, lost his seat for Inverness in central Scotland to the SNP.

The Scottish Conservatives hold their only seat for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale in the south of Scotland.

Former Scottish National Party (SNP) leader and former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who won a seat for the SNP in northeastern Scotland, emphasized the strongest group and voice for Scotland at Westminster in the history of Scottish politics.

The SNP achieved only six seats at Westminster in the last general election in 2010. Endit