REFORM UK DEPUTY LEADER HAILS ‘SEISMIC RESULT’ IN SCOTLAND – Huge gains for Reform in Scotland By-Election; SNP vote plummeted 16.8%
While Labour emerged victorious in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, Reform UK surged into third place, winning 26.2% of the vote.
From a base of no seats at all, the insurgent Reform UK party came just a few hundreds votes behind the governing party, the SNP, whose vote share plummeted.
The Scottish Conservatives won just 6% of the vote, although they were not expected to do well in the seat in any case. The turnout was 44.1%
Reacting to the result, Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice wrote on Social Media that the Tories “have effectively disappeared in Scottish politics”.
“We have achieved a seismic result and lit up Scottish politics, in a close three-way marginal, just a few hundred votes in it.”
