Europe Decides

The result of the Scottish election remains too close to call. Owing to major problems in some areas with the electronic counting system, only 81 of the 129 seats have been declared.

Counting for the remainder of these seats re-commenced at midday.

Of the seats so far declared, the position is as follows:

Labour 32 seats SNP 29 seats Lib Dems 12 seats Tories 7 seats Greens 1 seat

At this stage, nobody is prepared to predict the final outcome.