In Scottish nationalist landslide, 20-year-old student takes seat from Labour

A 20-year-old university student standing for the Scottish National Party defeated a Labour Party grandee in Britain's national election to become the youngest member of the British parliament in 350 years. Mhairi Black won 23,548 votes against 17,804 for Douglas Alexander in the Paisley and Renfrewshire South constituency - a hugely embarrassing result for a man who is Labour's shadow foreign minister and electoral campaign chief. It symbolised a wretched night for Labour as the SNP routed it across Scotland in what could be one of the worst results for Labour north of the border a century. Read More http://ift.tt/1ETWJ9y

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