BBC Scotland Political Editor

Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election is a surprising win for labor-a full Scottish Parliament gives a very important boost to a very than a year of time.
But the second major winner reform was Britain who finished third behind SNP. He recorded his best parliamentary election results in Scotland – with 26% of the vote.
The party’s deputy leader Richard Tice said that the result was a “large -scale promotion” in the May 2026 vote.
If John Swine is to remain as the first minister of Scotland, it seems that he cannot rely on presenting SNP as Nigel Faraz and Reform UK.
Both SNP and Labor lost vote share in this by -election, but for the last 18 years, Holiroad was punished for SNP in power.
He repeatedly prepared this competition as a two horse race between him and the UK. His hoardings in the constituency still claim this. This was clearly wrong.

In fact, it was a three horse race that Labor won from the nose to get a seat from SNP – which now has big questions to ask himself about his strategy for 2026.
If the improvement may make half the competition in next May, they can expect their first MSP to be elected and a significant leg in Holiroad.
This will break the traditional consent that Scotland requires more immigration to fill job vacancies and offset the effects of aging.
Established parties admit that the concerns about immigration in this by -election were in a way that they had not made before.
Among the biggest loser in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse are conservatives who completed a distant fourth and were seen struggling to combat the rise of improvement.
The necklace here is a significant setback for the Scottish Tory leader Russell Findle and the Kemi does not give any encouragement to the Badenoch and the UK party.

It is also not a win that Sir Kir starrer can actually claim as his own.
Labor said in recent times that he had identified adequate support to defeat the SNP and it seems that a successful ground operation voted for those voters.
But the popularity of the stormer in Scotland has ever fallen when he came to power in the last summer, defeating SNP a lot.
Decisions such as cutting the winter fuel payment for pensioners have damaged their standing and that policy is to be modified, perhaps early next week.
The Prime Minister on Monday made no attendance in the campaign despite announced a strategic defense review in Glasgow.

Scottish labor leader Anas Sarwar has accepted public dissatisfaction with the UK Labor Government.
He said that the voters had clarified their frustrations and the Sir Kir starrer should now go ahead in giving the promised economic change in the general election.
The result of this by -election changes the story prevalent in Scottish politics.
After defeating SNP in most parts of the Central Belt of Scotland in the last summer, Labor has lost the ground.
The National Opinion Polling has launched the SNP in the intentions of Holiroad voting.
This by -election results run the counter for that trend, although it is a localized win over low turnout.

Voters constantly told anyone that they would hear that they were fed up with the politicians of all stripes, not at least those people in Holiroad and Westminster.
Before the next May election, John Swine expects to be able to reform public services such as NHS.
And labor will argue that the nationalists already have too long and the government needs change.
This by -election has restored some confidence in Scottish labor and reminded the SNP that they cannot take anything.
But it has noticed all the parties that reforms UK – for the first time – can be a significant force in Scottish politics.