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Daily Record
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National
Lorraine Weir

SNP clean sweep in West Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute

The SNP have won both seats in the local area with Brendan O’Hara re-elected in Argyll and Bute.

He won with 21,040 of the votes with Gary Mulvaney of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party second on 16,930.

Liberal Democrat Alan Reid got 6,832 votes and Rhea Louise Barnes from Labour got 3,248 votes.

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Turnout was 72.4 percent with a total of 142 votes rejected.

The result was declared at 5.45am, after it was revealed his SNP colleague Martin Docherty was re-elected to represent West Dunbartonshire.

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Argyll and Bute Returning Officer Cleland Sneddon said: "We have a dedicated team of knowledgeable election staff which meant that everything went extremely smoothly, despite the unique challenges involved in administering a count on this scale.

"I would like to thank everyone involved for ensuring that Argyll and Bute’s UK general election count went so well."

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