Scott Allan
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But first, your latest news.
The top election stories this hour.
The Scottish Greens are celebrating an historic day, winning their first constituency seats at Holyrood.
Former leader Lorna Slater won Edinburgh Central and Holly Bruce picked up Nicola Sturgeon's former stronghold Glasgow Southside.
Co-leader Gillian Mackay reckons they could hold a major influence in the next Parliament.
So we're certain that John Swinney will be back as First Minister.
After his declaration in Perth a few hours ago, he spoke to Dale Eaton and insists he never took anything for granted.
Well, I wonder whether our political editor, Alan Smith, who's at the Edinburgh Council, will agree with the First Minister.
On this point, I'd happily disagree.
Bring back the overnight count for the next holiday election because we would have known the final result by now.
But as it looks like, we're going to be kept waiting because we still need those regional results to come in.
We still have about four constituencies yet to declare.
And those regional lists are going to be absolutely critical as to whether the SNP get an overall majority or not.
By the looks of it, looking at the projections, it doesn't look like the SNP will win the overall majority.
We know that they lost a few constituencies.
They lost a couple of those constituencies to the Greens, as you mentioned, a couple to the Lib Dems, one to Labour.
So it looks like the SNP will fall short of the overall majority, but we are going to be kept waiting.
Thank you, Alan.