Conservatives retain Banff and Buchan
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Conservative MP David Duguid has been returned as MP for Banff and Buchan with 21,182 votes, a majority of 4118.
This equated to some 50.1 per cent of the overall vote share and an increase of +1.8 per cent on the 2017 election.
The Scottish National Party's Paul Robertson had 17,064 votes, Liberal Democrat, Alison Smith 2280 and Labour's Brian Balcombe took 1734 votes.
A total of 42,356 votes were cast in the constituency, a turn out of 63.4 per cent.
Thanking those who had been involved in his campaign, Mr Duguid said: " I have a fanstastic team behind me tonight and I would like to thanks them all.
"One person in particular, for the last two and a half years, my wife Rose.
"It has been a great campaign and I would also like to thank all of my fellow candidates, Brian, Paul and Alison for a good natured election.
"I am looking forward to getting back to serve all the people of Banff and Buchan."
In the General Election of 2017 the seat was a Conservative gain from SNP.
Conservative - David Duguid, 19,976
Scottish National Party - Eilidh Whiteford, 16,283
Labour - Caitlin Stott, 3936
Liberal Democrat - Galen Milne, 1448
In the General Election of 2015 the seat was an SNP hold.
Scottish National Party - Eilidh Whiteford, 27,487
Conservative - Alex Johnstone, 13,148
Labour - Sumon Hoque, 2647
Liberal Democrat - David Evans, 2347
