Tom McCabe, Karen Gillon, Karen Whitefield and Andy Kerr entered Holyrood in 1999 Four Labour MSPs who had represented Lanarkshire seats since 1999 have lost their seats to the SNP in the election.
Former ministers Andy Kerr and Tom McCabe lost East Kilbride and Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse to the SNP’s Linda Fabiani and Christina McKelvie.
Karen Gillon and Karen Whitefield lost Clydesdale and Airdrie and Shotts to Aileen Campbell and Alex Neil.
The party had better news in Eastwood where it held the Tory target. Leader Iain Gray held his East Lothian seat.
There had been speculation that Mr Gray may lose the seat to the SNP’s David Berry, who cut the Labour majority to 151 votes.
And in Eastwood, Labour’s Ken Macintosh had feared losing the constituency following boundary changes which gave a notional victory to Jackson Carlaw of the Scottish Conservatives.
Labour has retained the Rutherglen constituency with James Kelly re-elected the area’s MSP with 12,489 votes, or 46%. It also held Greenock and Inverclyde and
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However, the party failed to take Glasgow Southside, where it had a slim notional majority after boundary changes.
Nicola Sturgeon – who represented Glasgow Govan in the last Holyrood parliament – won the seat with a majority of more than 4,000.
Mr Gray blamed his party’s losses on the “collapse of the Lib Dem votes” and said clearly disgruntled Liberal Democrats were going to the SNP.
Reacting to the loss of former ministers Tom McCabe and Andy Kerr, he said: “It is very disappointing – two very, very good colleagues who will be a great lose to the Scottish Parliament, that is for sure.”
He added: “What we are seeing is complete and utter collapse of the Lib Dem vote and significant loss in the Tory vote and that is coalescing with the SNP.
“We have fought a very hard campaign over six weeks around what I think is the issue that voters believe is most important – jobs and growing the economy.”
A raft of constituencies are expected to declare in the next couple of hours, including the six Edinburgh seats, with Central and Eastern both having slim notional majorities.
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