{"id":572620,"date":"2026-05-08T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:39:09","slug":"scottish-parliament-results-2026-counting-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572620\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Parliament results 2026: Counting begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ll be keeping an eye on Stephen Flynn as north east results come inpublished at 08:57 BST<\/p>\n

08:57 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Andrew Kerr
BBC Scotland political correspondent<\/p>\n

We were in the Aberdeen count early for our breakfast radio hits –
\nit was almost eerie seeing all the ballot boxes carefully lined up in the
\ndeserted counting hall. <\/p>\n

The story of the north-east election results is locked inside them
\nfor now – and we’ve got some good stories to tell.<\/p>\n

As the BBC marks David Attenborough’s 100th birthday,
\nour cameras will be tracking a big political beast – the SNP’s Westminster
\nleader, Stephen Flynn.<\/p>\n

He’s spoken of a future as first minister – so will his first
\nsteps to power begin here in the P&J live arena as he stands for Holyrood
\nin the Aberdeen Deeside & North Kincardine constituency.<\/p>\n

He and his SNP colleagues should be fine in the three city seats –
\nthere are two fights in the shire, though.<\/p>\n

The north east is the home of fishing – in fact, this venue’s
\nhosting a skippers’ convention.<\/p>\n

Will Reform UK’s Conrad Ritchie unseat the SNP’s Karen Adam in
\nBanffshire and Buchan Coast with the biggest haul of votes?<\/p>\n

We’ll also be keeping a close eye on Aberdeenshire West – here
\nwill the castle-owning Conservative Alexander Burnett fend off an attack from
\nFatima Joji of the SNP with the help of pro-union reinforcements?<\/p>\n

\"StephenImage caption, <\/p>\n

Stephen Flynn is seeking election in Aberdeenshire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ll be keeping an eye on Stephen Flynn as north east results come inpublished at 08:57 BST 08:57…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-572620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}