Lib Dem Christine Jardine has held her seat in Edinburgh West.
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00:00Okay, good morning everyone, I have the constituency declaration for Edinburgh West.
00:30I, Paul Lawrence, returning officer for the Edinburgh West constituency, declare that the total number of votes given to each candidate was as follows.
00:44Davidson Michael Collin, Scottish Labour Party, 7,854.
00:59Henry David Independent, 363.
01:06Horney Nick Independent, 143.
01:15Hislock Ewan, Scottish National Party, 10,170.
01:22Inglis Otto, Reform UK, 2,209.
01:36Jardine Christine Ann, Scottish Liberal Democrats, 26,970.
01:45Blair Tan, Scottish Libertarian Party, 85.
01:58Kowski James Conrad, Scottish Greens, 2,100.
02:06Shields Alastair, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, 2,897.
02:17Therefore, I give public notice that Christine Ann Jardine is duly elected as the Member of the UK Parliament for the Edinburgh West constituency.
02:36The total number of votes cast across the Edinburgh West constituency at the UK Parliamentary Election on 4 July was 52,608.
02:49The total number of ballot papers rejected was 137 and the turnout at the constituency was 68.78%.
03:00I therefore would like to ask Christine Jardine to come forward and say a few words.
03:14Mr Attorney Officer, thank you very much and thank you to everyone who is here tonight,
03:24who has helped over the past six weeks, who has put together voting packs for postal votes,
03:30sent out the polling cards, who has counted the votes tonight, who has manned the polling stations today.
03:37Thank you. Thank you for such a smooth operation and for showing that in this country we can do democracy, we do it well.
03:46And when we want change, we go to the ballot box and we achieve it.
03:51So thank you for that and thank you to everyone in Edinburgh West.
03:56I am absolutely overwhelmed at the warmth and the support that we have felt everywhere in the country.