THE results from the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election are in.
Michael Shanks has been elected as the constituency's new MP, as Labour took 58% of the overall vote share.
Votes
Scottish Liberal Democrats (Gloria Adebo) - 895, 3% (-2.3)
Scottish Socialist Party (Bill Bonnar) - 271, 1%
Independent (Garry Cooke) - 6
Independent (Andrew Daly) - 81
Scottish Greens (Cameron Eadie) - 601, 2%
Independent (Prince Ankit Love, Emperor of India) - 34
Scottish Family Party (Niall Fraser) - 319, 1%
Volt UK (Ewan Hoyle) - 46
Scottish Conservatives (Thomas Kerr) - 1192, 4% (-11.1)
SNP (Katy Loudon) - 8399, 28% (-16.6)
Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (Chris Sermanni) - 178, 1%
Scottish Labour (Michael Shanks) - 17,845, 58% (+24.1)
Reform UK (David Stark) - 403, 1%
Independence for Scotland Party (Colette Walker) - 207, 1%
Turnout
The turnout was 37.19%, with a total of 30,531 votes cast.
That is down from 66.48% at the snap 2019 General Election, when 53,794 valid votes were cast.
Some 54 ballot papers were rejected.
