ON a rough night for the SNP, some huge names no longer have seats at Westminster.
Joanna Cherry lost her seat in Edinburgh South West as she lost out to Labour’s Scott Arthur, while Alison Thewliss is another prominent SNP politician to be out of a job as Labour took a clean sweep of seats in Glasgow.
Here are all the SNP MPs who we will now not see at Westminster, the constituencies they represented, plus where they stood following boundary changes:
- Tommy Sheppard – Edinburgh East
- Joanna Cherry – Edinburgh South West
- Alison Thewliss – Glasgow Central (stood in Glasgow North)
- Gavin Newlands – Paisley and Renfrewshire North
- Kirsten Oswald – East Renfrewshire
- Ronnie Cowan – Inverclyde (stood in Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West)
- Anne McLaughlin – Glasgow North East
- David Linden – Glasgow East
- Anum Qaisar – Airdrie and Shotts
- Allan Dorrans – Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
- Steven Bonnar – Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (stood in Coatbridge and Bellshill)
- Stuart McDonald - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
- Stewart McDonald – Glasgow South
- Amy Callaghan – East Dunbartonshire (stood in Mid Dunbartonshire)
- Deirdre Brock – Edinburgh North and Leith
- Carol Monaghan – Glasgow North West (stood in Glasgow West)
- Chris Stephens – Glasgow South West
- Richard Thomson – Gordon (stood in Gordon and Buchan)
- Owen Thompson - Midlothian
- Alan Brown – Kilmarnock and Loudon
- Martyn Day – Linlithgow and East Falkirk (stood in Bathgate and Linlithgow)
- Hannah Bardell – Livingston
- Marion Fellows – Motherwell and Wishaw (stood in Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
- Patricia Gibson – North Ayrshire and Arran
- Alyn Smith – Stirling (stood in Stirling and Strathallan)
- John Nicolson – Ochil and South Perthshire (stood in Alloa and Grangemouth)
- Martin Docherty-Hughes – West Dunbartonshire
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