Alistair Carmichael has been re-elected as the MP for Orkney & Shetland, with a significantly decreased majority.

The Liberal Democrat candidate beat the SNP's Robert Leslie by 2,507 votes, 2,056 votes less than the majority at the 2017 election.

Jennifer Fairbairn of the Conservative Party came third and Labour's Coilla Drake came fourth.

Voter turnout was down by 0.4 percentage points since the last general election.

More than 23,000 people, roughly two-thirds of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

Two of the six candidates, Robert Smith (The Brexit Party) and David Barnard (independent), lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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