Labour take control of City of Edinburgh Council
Labour have formed a minority administration in Edinburgh to take charge of the City Chambers for the next five years
It's taken three weeks to the day from the election, but Edinburgh finally knows who will be running the Council for the next five years.
Labour will form a minority administration in the city.
Which means Councillor Cammy Day, previously a deputy leader of the Council, is now Council Leader.
Two Labour Councillors abstained in voting, producing some drama, but that didn't impact the eventual overall result. As 29 Councillors voted for the SNP-Green Coalition, but 32 voted for Labour.
The group, who have just 13 of the 63 seats in the Council, secured the backing of both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives - although this is not a formal coalition.
The combination of the three parties was enough to prevent the SNP taking back control in the Chamber, as they were seeking to do, this time in a coalition with the Greens.
Ultimately the 29 Councillors of those two groups wasn't quite enough to secure a majority of 32.
This means, despite being the largest party in the Chamber, the SNP led by Adam McVey - who spent the previous five years as the Council Leader, will now become the opposition.
The Tories and Lib Dems both say going forward that they'll vote on an issue by issue basis, and have not promised to back Labour in every vote.
Even minutes before the Chamber voted for the Labour Minority, McVey said: "Our message to Labour even now is it’s not too late"
He claimed he no longer recognised the group he'd spent the last five years working with.
"Labour had a choice of a centre- left coalition with the Greens or centre- right with Tories controlling their agenda." he continued.
Councillor Day was met with laughs from the SNP and Green benches as he proclaimed the Labour administration would have "no deal or coalition with any other party."
He added that he had hoped to have a "rainbow collation" in which each of the five parties would agree on a deal.
Lib Dem Councillor Kevin Lang told the Chamber that his party was unhappy with how both sides of the previous administration (SNP and Labour) had handled the last five years.
But he claimed the difference was "stark" in the attitudes shown by the two parties during the election campaign.
Conservative group Leader Iain Whyte said it took "some time, and some thinking" on if supporting the Labour administration was "the right thing to do".
He said ultimately he felt parties needed to work together.
Claiming there was an attitude that "smacks of entitlement" from the SNP and some of the Green Councillors.