The Labor Party wins the central Scottish elections on SNP and reform

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The Scottish Labor Party challenged predictions to defeat the ruling Scottish National Party in a major Scottish elections, as the UK reform ended in third place.

Davi Russell won the Hamilton, Larkhoul and Stonehus seat against the Labor Party, with 8,559 votes, overcoming Katie Ludon from SNP with 602 votes, with a demand of 44 percent.

The Labor Party has obtained a 31.6 percent voting share, with SNP by 29.4 percent and 26.1 % reform. Conservatives decreased by 6 percent.

The competition comes less than a year before the upcoming elections Scottish ParliamentWhen SNP seeks to extend what will be at that time, he is 19 years old in power.

The sub -elections, caused by the death of SNP MSP MSP Christina Mckelvie, were dominated by the emergence of reform, which received increasing support in the assembly’s sub -elections in Scotland, albeit at lower levels of England and Wales.

John Sweeney, the first minister in Scotland, described the competition as a “horse dual” race between SNP and reform, and called on the voters to support his party to prevent the reform leader Nigel Faraj to get the first party representative in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

Annas Sawar, the leader of the Scottish Labor Party, said that the result showed the depth of a feeling against SNP, which faces discontent with the state of public services.

“If you want to get rid of SNP, the only party that can do this is to work,” Sarwar told the BBC.

The result-in a central circle necessary for any national victory-the momentum that affects the need is pumped into Sarawar’s attempt to lead employment to power in Holirod next year.

Its strong rankings were subjected to the victory of the Labor Party in the elections last year last year.

James Mitchell of Edinburgh University said: “The Work Party’s victory is a great boost to a party that was chosen as a major competitor in this seat by SNP and a lot of comments.” “It is a blow to John Sweeni more than Nigel Faraj.”

While opinion polls indicated that SNP has lost support since the last Holirod elections in 2021, the increase in reform tends to obtain more votes from conservatives and employment.

SNP SNP survey was 33 percent, with UK employment and reform, at 19 percent and 18 percent, respectively.

Independence support is 54 percent, as it rose to 58 percent if Farraj is Prime Minister in Britain.

Swini, in response to the result, said that SNP still has “work to do.”

The Hamilton campaign, through a racist rank that was ignited by a reformist declaration in the UK, who claimed incorrectly that the leader of the Labor Party, which is from the Pakistani heritage, pledged to “give priority” to this society.

The reform, which only saw his Islamic chair, Diaa Youssef, to resign After one of its deputies called for a ban on the volcano, he described the sub -elections as a “historic” trilogy.

“It was very close to the communication, only a few hundred votes between us and SNP,” the BBC. “This is an enormous batch for us.”