John Lamont has been elected as Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Roxburgh and Berwickshire constituency. John was declared the winner at the Election Count Centre at Tweedbank shortly after 5am on Friday morning. The result brings to an end 42 years of LibDem dominance in the Borders.
John said "I am honoured to have been elected by the people of Roxburgh and Berwickshire to represent them in the Scottish Parliament. My top priority is to represent the interest of the Borders as best I can and to end the Central Belt bias which has been favoured by the Parliament for far too long."
"I will shortly be opening my constituency office and I look forward to hearing from local people with any issues or problems that they might have."
Full result :
John Lamont - 10556
LibDem - 8571
SNP - 4127
Labour - 2108
Independent - 318