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Jim Murphy loses Renfrewshire East seat to SNP

May 8, 2015 by Jeffrey Buchanan Leave a Comment

Scottish Labour Party leader Jim Murphy has lost his seat to the Scottish National Party.

Murphy wished successor Kirsten Oswald well in serving Renfrewshire East. He congratulated the SNP on results so far, but added that it must show more “responsibility” with its greater representation in Parliament.

“The fightback starts tomorrow”, he added.

SNP count was 23013

Labour count was 19295

Conservative count was 12465

Liberal Democrat count was 1069

UKIP count was 888

The seat has been a Labour seat since 1997.

 

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Published on Friday, May 8th, 2015 at 2:21 am

Last modified: Friday, May 8th, 2015 at 2:26 am

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