Labour gains Kilmarnock and Loudon from SNP in first Scottish general election result

Labour has gained Kilmarnock and Loudon from the SNP in the first declared general election result in Scotland.

In a seismic victory, Lillian Jones won the seat with 19,065 votes, beating the SNP’s Alan Brown.

Brown had held the seat since 2015. He took 13,936 votes.

The Labour vote was 26 per cent up while the SNP vote was 16 per cent down.

Kilmarnock and Loudon was the first seat to declare in the SNP landslide of 2015. It was the party's forth safest seat before the election.

Before then it had been one of many safe Labour seats.

The result comes as the BBC/ITV/Sky exit poll predicted a 170-seat majority for Labour across the UK, with the SNP dropping to just 10 seats, and a party source suggested it could lose all three of its seats in Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said: “This is not a good night for the SNP on these numbers.

“I think there will be a question about whether there was enough in the campaign to give out, effectively, a USP to the SNP in an election that was about getting the Tories out and replacing them with Labour.”

Speaking on ITV, she added: “This is at the grimmer end of the expectations for the SNP if the exit poll is right and, from what I’ve said earlier on, I expect it will be.

“This is seismic for Labour. There’s no getting away from that, it’s a massive achievement for Keir Starmer.”

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