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The recount has only just concluded as Mr MacDonald overcame the SNP’s Drew Hendry.
The recount has only just concluded as Mr MacDonald overcame the SNP’s Drew Hendry.
The recount has only just concluded as Mr MacDonald overcame the SNP’s Drew Hendry.
Conservatives, Lib Dems and SNP election staff say ‘we are getting more frustrated as this mismanaged election count goes on’.
A recap of the count chaos that led to today’s embarrassing recount leaving the seat the last in the UK to announce its results.
The flaw in the original vote does not appear to have been identified but it is clear there has been a problem.
The Electoral Commission and SNP lawyers are present overseeing the recount process for the last constituency in the UK to declare.
In the face of a deeply uncomfortable those at the count showed how to behave well in testing circumstances.
It is understood the MP and his family are travelling to London today and will not be changing their plan.
But the botched ballot count means a second recount tomorrow for Inverness constituency.
A ‘discrepancy’ between verified and the provisional total votes could not be reconciled.
A ‘discrepancy’ emerged but an initial check was ‘unable to resolve the statistical anomaly’.
It is expected that will take at least another 90 minutes to complete before any declaration can be made.
Deputy First Minister says with two years before the Holyrood elections the SNP must ‘ensure we can demonstrate delivery, implementation and change’.
A ‘discrepancy’ was found between the verified vote tally and the actual vote tally.
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross on the other hand is projected to be a Liberal Democrat win
Mr Ross is a Highland list MSP but is seeking election to the Aberdeenshire North and Moray East seat, if he wins then he will resign from Holyrood.
Exit polls are suggesting a sure in the Lib Dem vote while the SNP is predicted to keep just 10 seats.
We will bring you all the latest as a botched ballot count means voters will not know their Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP until tomorrow.
There are more than 200 polling stations and more than 700 staff spread across an area twice the size of Jamaica.
