Lillian Jones won with 19,065 votes, beating the SNP’s Alan Brown.
Labour has gained Kilmarnock and Loudon from the SNP in the first declared general election result in Scotland.Brown had held the seat since 2015. He took 13,936 votes. Kilmarnock and Loudon was the first seat to declare in the SNP landslide of 2015. It was the party's forth safest seat before the election.
“I think there will be a question about whether there was enough in the campaign to give out, effectively, a USP to the SNP in an election that was about getting the Tories out and replacing them with Labour.” “This is seismic for Labour. There’s no getting away from that, it’s a massive achievement for Keir Starmer.”
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