Scottish Euro elections
UPDATE AT 1009:
I'm filing from the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, where .
As billed, two seats each for the SNP and Labour, one for the Tories, one for the Lib Dems.
In terms of voting share, the SNP are placed first, with 29.1%, Labour second with 20.8%, Tories third with 16.8% and Lib Dems fourth, with 11.5%.
The SNP's Ian Hudghton described it as a great victory for his party, while Labour's David Martin said his party had managed to hold onto two seats during what he called "unnecessary in-fighting".
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UPDATE AT 0922, MONDAY:
Last result in this morning in Scotland from the European elections.
That's the Western Isles
The SNP has consolidated its leading position by taking 43.3% of the vote with Labour second, way back on 18.4%.
The full formal declaration will be made shortly, but it still looks like two seats each for the SNP and Labour one each for Tories and Lib Dems.
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UPDATE AT 2353:
We won't know the full Scottish result until the Western Isles declares, but the picture as is from the Edinburgh counting centre is a big victory for the SNP, in terms of voting share.
They're on 29%, Labour are just under 21%, the Tories just under 17% and the Lib Dems just over 11%.
In terms of seats though - doesn't look like any change.
Scotland is down from seven Euro seats to six and looks like those will split two each to the SNP and Labour, one to the Tories and one to the Lib Dems.
No change in seats then - but all change in votes.
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UPDATE AT 2212:
Labour has won in another council area - but only just.
North Lanarkshire puts Labour first, with the SNP just behind and the others nowhere.
But, in neighbouring South Lanarkshire, the SNP takes first place.
Couple of others - the Tories are clearly in first place in the Scottish Borders with the Lib Dems second, while, in Aberdeenshire, its SNP, Tory, and Lib Dem, in that order.
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UPDATE AT 2156:
We have now had the result in East Renfrewshire. In Westminster terms, that's the seat of the Scottish secretary, Jim Murphy.
In tonight's poll in that area, the Conservatives have come first, the SNP second and Labour third.
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UPDATE AT 2150:
More still. The SNP has taken first place in Edinburgh with the Tories second, Labour third and the Liberal Democrats fourth.
That's a third of the councils declared so far - and it's still looking like victory for the SNP in terms of share of the vote.
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UPDATE AT 2145:
And there's more.
In terms of share of the vote, It's Labour and the SNP neck in neck in West Dunbartonshire; the SNP has out-polled Labour in Dundee by nearly two to one; in Fife Labour only just managed to out-vote the Nationalists and, in East Lothian, the SNP came first.
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Edinburgh City Chambers, and the very first in the European elections.
Councils all across Scotland are doing their sums and transmitting the outcome to the Capital for a central calculation of Scotland's membership of the European Parliament.
First indications? Very bad night for Labour - with the SNP looking set to take first place in the popular vote.
Whether that is enough to win the SNP an extra seat, remains to be seen.
Under the complicated European counting mechanism, the first-placed party has to out-pace its rivals by a fair degree to gain that extra seat.
Other straws in the wind include a decent showing by the Greens, so far.
More later . . .
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