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Wednesday , October 14 2026

Election night: Scotland’s big moments

The Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has for some years sat in both Holyrood and Westminster.

He entered the campaign promising not to contest the general election and concentrate on the job of leading his party in the Scottish Parliament.

But then he changed his mind, announcing that he would be standing in the newly redrawn constituency of Aberdeenshire North and Moray East instead of his colleague David Duguid, who was controversially dropped while ill in hospital.

A backlash from his own members led to Mr Ross promising to step down from the leader job and leave Holyrood, should he win on 4 July.

In the event, he lost out to the SNP’s Seamus Logan by just by 942 votes, a result he blamed on Reform’s strong showing in the ballot.

And he was pictured at the count beside an unfortunately placed sign which caught many candidates out on the night.


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