SNP Whitewash in Tayside and Fife

In a landmark night for the SNP - the party's won every seat across Tayside and Fife

Published 8th May 2015

The SNP has won every seat across Tayside and Fife in a landmark night for the party.

All eyes had been on Dundee West which had been a Labour stronghold for many years.

But it was the SNP's Chris Law who stormed to victory.

He gave us his reaction:

Across the city in Dundee East, Stewart Hosie's majority over Labour soared taking almost 60% of the vote there:

The SNP also picked up Ochil and South Perthshire with Labour's Gordon Banks losing his seat to Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.

It was a similar picture in Fife.

Gordon Brown's former Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath seat went the way of the SNP as did Glenrothes.

While in a disastrous night for the Lib Dems, their North East Fife stronghold was won by the SNP's Stephen Gethins: