The constituency’s new MP came out on top in a compelling contest.
Labour’s Alison Taylor has said it was “clear” the people of Paisley and Renfrewshire North wanted change after she was elected to the UK Parliament.
It was announced Taylor had secured 19,561 votes in the early hours of Friday morning. Taylor, a chartered surveyor, will replace the SNP’s Gavin Newlands, who had been the area’s MP since 2015 and achieved 13,228 votes. Taylor studied land economics at university in Paisley before becoming a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. She believes her 30 years of experience as a chartered surveyor will stand her in good stead as she prepares to head to Westminster.
Powered by the Paisley Daily Express, Renfrewshire Live is your go-to source for news, features and sport with live coverage provided direct to the app, seven days a week. Meanwhile, Newlands said it was “the greatest honour and privilege” of his life to have represented Paisley and Renfrewshire North for nine years. He was in defiant mood as he vowed in his speech: “Mark my words, I’ll be back and the SNP will be back, because independence is the only solution to the problems that Scotland faces – problems largely of Westminster’s making.”
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