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The Liberal Democrat councillor and businessman will represent a city which had backed SNP since 2015.

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.

Will it be 3rd time lucky for those counting the votes for the new Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire seat? Let’s hope so!

The SNP’s Drew Hendry has conceded defeat in his bid to be re-elected as an MP.

The public have been sharing their thoughts on the vote counting fiasco for Inverness, Skye West Ross-shire.

In the face of a deeply uncomfortable those at the count showed how to behave well in testing circumstances.

It was a close race in Elgin between the Conservative candidate Kathleen Robertson and the SNP representative Graham Leadbitter.

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 second recount will take place tomorrow after numbers didn’t tally up correctly.

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’.