THE SNP have won an outright majority on Dundee City Council.
The single-transferrable vote system used in elections is specifically designed to prevent such an event from occurring.
But against the odds, First Minister's Nicola Sturgeon's party scooped 15 seats out of 29 to give them overall power in the city's chambers.
No party had outright control in 2017, as was the case across the entire country.
But the SNP secured the second such result of the day after Labour seized overall power of West Dunbartonshire.
Dundee is often known as the "Yes" city after it voted to leave the UK in the 2014 independence referendum alongside Glasgow.
Labour won nine seats, the LibDems took four and the Conservatives just the one as votes were totted up at Dundee International Sports Centre.
One of the SNP candidates to win a seat in Dundee West End was Nadia El-Nakla, wife of health secretary Humza Yousaf.
