Labour Cheers Council Election Success in Edinburgh
Labour has had its first success at the ballot box in Scotland since it was reduced at the general election to just one MP north of the border.
The party took a seat from the Greens in an Edinburgh City Council by-election in the Leith Walk ward.
It was won by Marion Donaldson.
The SNP's John Lewis Ritchie also held a seat in the same ward
It was the first time in Scotland that a by-election took place to fill two vacancies in the same ward using the STV voting system.
Labour's win came despite a swing in first-preference votes of 7.6% from it to the SNP - but this was a much smaller swing in favour of the Scottish Nationalists than at the general election and in other Scottish council by-elections since then.
The Greens were unable to hold the seat even though their vote share fell by only 1.5 percentage points.
First-count voting for the two seats was: SNP 2,290, Lab 1,623, Green 1,381, C 501, LD 255, Ukip 102, Soc 97, Left 32, Ind 26, Libertarian 17.
The by-election followed the resignation of Deidre Brock, the new SNP MP for Edinburgh North & Leith, as a councillor and the resignation of a Green councillor.