Scotland: SNP wins 4th term, short of overall majority [View all]
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has won parliamentary elections in Scotland, but failed to gain an absolute majority, according to final results from Thursday's vote.
The win gives SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon a platform from which to launch a second Scottish independence referendum — otherwise known as "indyref2."
Sturgeon has long favored staging a second vote on leaving the UK and with the help of the Green Party, she may now get her chance.
Referring to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's threat to stop any such moves, Sturgeon on Saturday said: "There is simply no democratic justification whatsoever for Boris Johnson, or indeed for anyone else, seeking to block the right of the people of Scotland to choose our own future."
Though the SNP failed to win an outright majority, it is the fourth election in a row in which the party has dominated at the polls.
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